In 1941, Jack Kirby and Stan Lee released the first issue of “Captain America” with the cover featuring the hero punching Adolf Hitler. We’ve believed the notion that America has always had a “Nazi’s are bad” policy but the truth is actually much more complicated. Kirby, Lee and the staff of Timely comics were flooded with letters and phone calls from AMERICANS threatening to kill them for having the audacity to insult a dictator committing a genocide and waging a continental war. The fact is, Germany was not the reason the United States entered the war. At the time, there was a prevailing National Socialist movement in America as well as many Nazi sympathizers. The “German American Bund” (previously the “The Friends of New Germany”) held many marches and protests including a rally in Times Square where 20,000 members marched in support of Hitler. We all have had the same thought when watching movies or reading stories where nazi’s were committing atrocities and thought to ourselves “I’d do something if I had been alive then.” You’re alive now. Don’t be on the wrong side of history.