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But Hitler's admiration for Roosevelt gave way to contempt upon the opening of hostilities. With the German declaration of war against the United States, Hitler would deprecate Roosevelt, not as a tool of the socialists or Bolsheviks, but as "the candidate of a Capitalist Party."<ref>[http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/hitler_declares_war.html Hitler Declares War on the United States] (December 11, 1941). Jewish Virtual Library (American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise)</ref>
But Hitler's admiration for Roosevelt gave way to contempt upon the opening of hostilities. With the German declaration of war against the United States, Hitler would deprecate Roosevelt, not as a tool of the socialists or Bolsheviks, but as "the candidate of a Capitalist Party."<ref>[http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/hitler_declares_war.html Hitler Declares War on the United States] (December 11, 1941). Jewish Virtual Library (American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise)</ref>
==Socialists and Communists on the New Deal==
As early as 1933, the manifesto of the first United States Congress Against War and Fascism (a Communist front) "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> The well-known socialist [[Theodore Dreiser]] (who would become an open Communist in 1945),<ref>Theodore Dreiser, "Request to Become a Communist," ''[[The Daily Worker]]'', July 30, 1945, reprinted in Albert Fried, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=mLJbT3NMbN4C Communism in America: A History in Documents]'' (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997) ISBN 0231102356, pp. 348-350</ref> classed FDR with Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini, saying that all used the ideas of [[Karl Marx]].<ref>"[http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F7061FFF355C1B7A93C0AB1783D85F4C8385F9 Says Roosevelt Uses Karl Marx's Ideas; Theodore Dreiser Adds That So Do Hitler and Stalin]," ''The New York Times'', August 22, 1938</ref>
==New Dealers on fascism==
==New Dealers on fascism==