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John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK and by the nickname Jack, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until until his assassination in 1963.

Born into the prominent Kennedy family in Brookline, Massachusetts, Kennedy graduated from Harvard University in 1940 before joining the U.S. Naval Reserve the following year.
Kennedy's administration included high tensions with communist states in the Cold War. As a result, he increased the number of American military advisers in South Vietnam. The Strategic Hamlet Program began in Vietnam during his presidency. In April 1961, he authorized an attempt to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro in the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion.

 
          Kennedy meeting with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna in June 1961

For the public, JFK was a young and charismatic person, with a representative appearance and charm.
He is considered an American liberal icon. He became both a congressman and a senator, and from 1956 he consistently worked on his image with the goal of becoming president.

For example, the Cuban regime of Fidel Castro, the Soviet Union, Cuban communities in the US the mafia and others could have been behind the assassination. Suspicion did not escape even the elements of the American government such as the FBI, the CIA and even Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, who, in accordance with the Constitution, took over the office of the head of state after Kennedy's death. The alleged shooter, Lee Harvey Oswald, pleaded not guilty and was murdered two days after being apprehended.

Though a lot is known about JFK life especially during his presidency much less is known that during his studies he visited also Czechoslovakia.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy visited Czechoslovakia only once, when he was not yet the American president. He was 22 years old and studying international relations at Harvard University. He was brought to Czechoslovakia by curiosity to see with his own eyes the occupation of the country by Germany, which he admired so much.

The fact that the future American president admired the Nazi regime in his youth is revealed in his diaries and letters from his trips to Europe in 1937, 1939 and 1945. It was hidden for many years, and only a few years ago these facts surfaced in the book John F. Kennedy - Among the Germans , which was published in Germany.

In 1937, when he was 20 and in his second year at Harvard, US President F. D. Roosevelt appointed his father, Joseph Kennedy, as ambassador to Great Britain. His father's post opened the door to Europe for the young Kennedy at a time of great political tension, with military conflict looming.

At that time, Kennedy senior defended the foreign policy of appeasement, which was advocated by the then British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, and, on the contrary, flatly rejected Churchill's call for a tougher response to German threats. He was also known for his anti-Semitism, which was reflected in the advice he gave his son: "Never do business with Jews."

    22 years old JFK entering the airplane with his father 

Young Kennedy took his first trip overseas in the summer of 1937 with his friend Lem Billings. He was greatly impressed by the organized and efficient fascist regimes in Italy and Germany. He seems to have approved not only of their governments but also of ideologies including racial theories. “All the cities are lovely, showing that the Norse race certainly seems to be superior to that of their Latin counterparts. The Germans are really good - that's why people intrigue against them - they do it to protect themselves," he wrote in his diary after visiting Germany. In another place he says: “I have come to the conclusion that fascism is right for Germany and Italy. What is the evil of fascism compared to communism?” Lem Billings later recalled how Kennedy was completely consumed by interest in the Nazi movement throughout the trip.
Kennedy's notes do not reveal whether he was influenced by his father, whom the Nazis saw as Germany's best friend in London. It can be assumed, however, because he always had a considerable influence on his son and the other children and exerted considerable pressure on them. The young Kennedy helped his father here and there at the embassy in London and sent him detailed reports from his travels in Europe. His observations from a visit to Poland in 1939 can be considered literally prophetic, when he warned that disputes over the Free City of Gdańsk would result in a German invasion of Poland. “The situation is damned complicated... Poland is determined not to give up Gdańsk... What Germany will do, if it decides to go to war, will be to try to put Poland in the position of the aggressor, and then it will go to work. Poland has an army of four million, they are good, but poorly armed," noted Kennedy, adding: "The Poles are not Czechs and they will fight…

The visit to Prague caused a stir
In the winter of 1939, Kennedy took a six-month study leave to travel. He passed through Germany, continued to Leningrad and Moscow, also visited the Crimea, then traveled to Istanbul, Palestine and Egypt. On the way back to London, he also visited Vienna and Prague. Thanks to his father's connections, he stayed at many embassies, where he was received kindly everywhere, but problems arose when he visited Prague in August 1939.

At that time, Bohemia and Moravia were occupied by the Germans, and Kennedy's visit to the American embassy therefore caused a certain uproar. Diplomats resented the fact that a 20-year-old student, who is not a civil servant, should be interested in the complex situation in the protectorate. Even though they did not agree with his visit, they eventually gave in to pressure from Kennedy's father, and JFK thus had the unique opportunity to learn firsthand the occupation machinery in the territory of Bohemia and Moravia. He considered this experience very valuable and used it in his final thesis.

France and England had no choice but to give in to Hitler
Student Kennedy chose the Munich Agreement and the policy of appeasement that led to it as the topic of his thesis. He completed it in 1940, receiving the second highest possible grade for it, graduating from university with honors. His father immediately thought that it wouldn't hurt to rework the thesis and publish it in book form. He found a publisher and secured an experienced journalist for his son to help him polish the text stylistically. The book was published in 1940 under the title Why England Slept as a clear allusion to Churchill's 1938 book, When England Slept. Against her, however, in his work, Kennedy defended the thesis that Britain was not ready for war in 1940 and Chamberlain thus had no choice but to give way to Hitler. He argued that if England had gone to war with France in 1938, they would probably have lost, which he believed would have had more disastrous consequences in the long run.

Fascination with Hitler
However, even after the defeat of Germany and the revelation of the horrors of the Holocaust, JFK did not stop being fascinated by the figure of Adolf Hitler. On his next visit to Germany in August 1945, he went to see Hitler's Bavarian residence Berghof and his famous Eagle's Nest, and noted in his diary:

"Anyone who has visited these places can imagine that in a few years Hitler will emerge from the hatred that now surrounds him and be regarded as one of the greatest figures who ever lived." And he continued: "The way he lived and how he died is something mysterious that survives him and remains alive. He will become a legend.”

At that time, however, the future American president did not realize that something similar would one day be written about himself.

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                                              Margaret

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy

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