Earlier this year, while driving by a telephone box, I saw a black swastika painted for everyone to see. I’m told it’s not the only one in our neighborhood, or graffiti of its type spray-painted somewhere in LaGrange.

“It’s just some dumb, ignorant kids,” a neighbor observed. And he’s right. There’s this misperception among our nation’s youth that Nazis were somehow pro-white, or compatible with America’s interests. After all, we’ve had an American Nazi Party…Nazi marches…even saw a photo in my history book of some brownshirt giving a Heil Hitler salute to George Washington and the American flag.

When I was in college, working for the campus newspaper, some group tried to get us to run a full-page ad that denied the Holocaust ever existed. A professor at another school I was at gleefully wrote the introduction to one of David Duke’s books, seeking to justify a lot of that man’s views on Jews, blacks and others. Nazis may not be right in the mainstream these days, but they’re out there alright. And they’re looking for new recruits.

Allow me to shed some light one some facts that don’t always show up in the history books or the History Channel. Nazis are as anti-American as they come.

During World War II, in the Battle of the Bulge, a Nazi SS Panzer unit captured a convoy of Americans that had become lost. Instead of making them POWs, the SS gunned nearly all 100 down in what became known as the Malmedy Massacre.

Later, the SS claimed that the Americans had tried to run away, or grabbed weapons and fired first. The skulls found with bullet wounds from point-blank range, or crushed with rifle butts tell a different tale. And it wasn’t the only time Nazi SS units did this to captured Americans.

The Nazis responsible for the Malmedy Massacre that were caught were found guilty and sentenced to death in some cases, or life in prison. Yet none ever served out their full sentences for this clear wartime atrocity.

And you’ll never guess who pleaded on the Nazi SS officer’s behalf: Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy! That might surprise some folks in Texas education who are making an extra effort to force America’s textbooks to say nice things about McCarthyism.

There’s a myth that Hitler’s Nazis only killed Jews, gypsies and communists, not real white people. But the Nazis slaughtered white German civilians who disagreed with Hitler’s power grab, innocent British citizens in targeted bombings, and even white American soldiers. In all, more than 1,000 captured Americans died in Nazi POW camps, some the victims of gruesome scientific experiments, according to some veterans.

Between 300,000 and 400,000 Americans died in World War II at the hands of the Axis Powers, which included Nazi Germany. But revisionists want that all to be forgotten about, because it might offend some folks who just want to whitewash the bad old days. Don’t worry…it’s perfect okay to be conservative and anti-Nazi.