# Amelia Earhart's plane found on the sea floor? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 20, 2001, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amelia-earharts-plane-found-on-the-sea-floor/58693 "2001-03-20T08:54:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 125
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> [@DrDeth](#): > > Lindberg was no nazi, nor a defeatist We’re getting well beyond Amelia Earhart, but this is nonsense. Apart from his accepting a Nazi medal and refusing to return it after Kristallnacht, his record as a bigot and Nazi appeaser [is clear](https://www.airandspaceforces.com/PDF/MagazineArchive/Magazine%20Documents/2014/August%202014/0814lindbergh.pdf). > [@](#): > > Lindbergh’s regard for Germany took several forms and is documented many times over in his letters, reports, and journals. Part of it was his judgment that the German armed forces could not be beaten and that Britain and France were foolish to try…“I cannot help liking the Germans,” (Lindbergh) wrote in his journal in 1939. “They are like our own people. We should be working with them and not constantly crossing swords.” > “Of all the European countries, I found the most personal freedom in Germany,” he said elsewhere in his journal. About Lindbergh’s personal sympathies with the Nazi credo, three words: [Des Moines speech](https://www.cfr.org/blog/twe-remembers-charles-lindberghs-des-moines-speech). --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amelia-earharts-plane-found-on-the-sea-floor/58693)._