Lois de Lafayette Washburn, an ultra-right-wing blogger from the 1930s, would salute the Capitol insurrectionists of today.
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Lois de Lafayette Washburn of Chicago gives a Nazi salute as she leaves Federal District Court in Washington, D.C., April 17, 1944. She and 29 others were on trial, charged with conspiring with the Nazis to overthrow democracy in the United States. With her is Howard Victor Broenstrupp of Washington, D.C., another defendant. Lois Washburn cried out at the trial, We are here to defend what you give, freedom from tyranny! (AP)
In April 1944, as Allied Forces prepared for the D-Day invasion of Europe, a middle-aged widow from the Seattle area, dressed in a plaid suit and a jaunty hat, snapped off a “Hitler salute” for the press and newsreel cameras in Washington, D.C. She then posed thumbing her nose at the U.S. Federal Courthouse, where she and a host of others were on trial for sedition.
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