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"The American side, and especially President Roosevelt himself, was strikingly open and receptive to ideas emanating from Nazi Germany," writes historian [http://www.eui.eu/DepartmentsAndCentres/HistoryAndCivilization/People/Professors/Patel.aspx Kiran Klaus Patel]. According to Patel, there was at least one actual "intercultural transfer," in which the CCC studied and adopted ("on personal orders from Roosevelt") a program for training aviation mechanics modeled after the Flyer Hitler Youth.<ref>Kiran Klaus Patel, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=nqTsBdOzNF4C Soldiers of labor: labor service in Nazi Germany and New Deal America, 1933-1945]'' (Cambridge University Press, 2005), ISBN 0521834163, pp. 278, 289</ref>

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As early as 1933, the manifesto of the first United States Congress Against War and Fascism "pointed to the NRA, the CCC, and the other policies of the Roosevelt administration as indications of America's preparedness for war and Fascism," according to FDR's Attorney General Francis Biddle.<ref>Attorney General's list of Subversive Organizations, 1942, page photographically reproduced in M. Stanton Evans, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=vz42rDYmf3wC Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemys]'' (Crown Forum, 2007), p. 56</ref>

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