This has stuck with me since I read it.
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This has stuck with me since I read it. Being smart enough to know better does not save people.
"He had slept with his share of men in the demimonde of Weimar Berlin; now he turned a blind eye to Nazi restrictions on homosexual behavior, which brought imprisonment and even death sentences."
Famed Architect Philip Johnson’s Hidden Nazi Past
Philip Johnson was a pedigreed, witty charmer from Cleveland who became a fixture of Manhattan’s art world and social circuit. But before Johnson’s rise to fame as one of America’s most influential architects, he delighted in another rise—that of Hitler and the Third Reich. In his forthcoming book, 1941: Fighting the Shadow War, Marc Wortman explores the architect’s fascination with Nazism.
Vanity Fair (www.vanityfair.com)
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"A light-skinned African American who passed his life as white, Dennis … had attended Nuremberg rallies and met with the Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini. He wrote several theoretical works on the decay of capitalism and on the Fascist alternative, including The Coming American Fascism in 1936. Five years later, Life magazine described him as “America’s No. 1 intellectual Fascist.”"
Famed Architect Philip Johnson’s Hidden Nazi Past
Philip Johnson was a pedigreed, witty charmer from Cleveland who became a fixture of Manhattan’s art world and social circuit. But before Johnson’s rise to fame as one of America’s most influential architects, he delighted in another rise—that of Hitler and the Third Reich. In his forthcoming book, 1941: Fighting the Shadow War, Marc Wortman explores the architect’s fascination with Nazism.
Vanity Fair (www.vanityfair.com)