It is not a German expression, but it has a black origin in Nazism. For several decades ago, there were those who wanted “America first,” the world later.
O slogan “America First“By Donald Trump, is“ alarmingly similar to Hitler’s slogan ‘Germany above all” (“Germany above everything“). Thus comments on Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, In an opinion article in the magazine magazine.
It might just be a daydream, but the comparison of “America First” or “America First”, a popular expression during Trump’s first campaign in 2016, actually has its roots in Nazism – not in the words used by Adolf Hitler, but in a community that sympathized with his ideals.
“America First” was the motto of Nazi supporters in the 1930s, Explains, which ensures that Trump has more than a “hitch phrase” in common with them. Even when the current US President began using the sentence in 2016 during the campaign, the Anti-Difamation League asked him to stop.
It all started with a controversial journalist, William Randolph Hearstfounder of the important American communication company Hearst Communications. It turns out that Hearst nuti, who in their perspective defended “lovers of freedom.”
In the early 1930s, Hearst began to engender a campaign that was strongly opposed to President Franklin Rooseveltmore exactly to New Deal, a set of economic measures applied by the head of state to try to reverse the crisis situation after the great depression.
Hearst considered New Deal “anti -American to the core” and “More communist than the communists”, And that was, in his anti-roosevelt campaign that he began to use the expression “America first.”
Later, in September 1940, the America First Committee (Committee of America First), which opposed the fight against Nazism and proposed a well -armed America, largely restricted to the Western Hemisphere.
His most prominent speaker was the famous aviator and enthusiast of fascism, Charles Lindbergh, who said he “proudly used” the award he received in Germany “in the name of the Führer” (the Nazi leader).
Decades after the dissolution of the committee (which only lasted a year), the expression came out of Donald Trump’s mouth, with or without the awareness of his provenance.
In 2016, the US President said: “We, gathered here today, are issuing a new decree… From this day, a new vision will rule our land. From this day, it will only be America first. America first! ” The motto has stuck, and since then, has been around the world.
