This article leaves out the part where these 2 people were attempting to enter the US on a tourist visa but admitted they intended to work and they had no accommodation organised.

The denial of entry sounds justified and the fact that this article leaves out the part where they intended to work.... Seems a bit disingenuous.

But at the time, we didn't think it was happening to Germans.

she could have added "after all, we're white, we're westerners, we thought that this sort of thing only applied to people of colour".

the thing is, fascism is colonialism applied to white people in the colonial powers. that's why to some people it's so revolting, at least when compared to military thugs torturing and disappearing people in poor countries; no, that's expected from them.

I'm excited to see the US cut itself off from tourism.