While President Franklin Roosevelt wanted to intervene to help the British in the fight against Germany, Lindbergh championed the isolationist cause. Although Lindbergh was unashamedly pro-German and an anti-Semite, Olson told the BBC he was no Nazi sympathiser.

Was Lindbergh a German sympathizer?

In the years before the United States entered World War II, Lindbergh's non-interventionist stance and statements about Jews and race led some to suspect he was a Nazi sympathizer, although Lindbergh never publicly stated support for Nazi Germany and on multiple occasions condemned them in both his public speeches and ...

Was Lindbergh a traitor?

He was a major opponent of U.S. involvement in WWII.

As the United States edged closer to war, many began to denounce the former hero as an anti-Semite and a traitor. ... Lindbergh later spent time as a test pilot and aviation advisor before travelling to the war's Pacific Theater as an observer.