Atlantic staff writer Graeme Wood has taken a flamethrower to the claim that billionaire Harlan Crow, the subject of a ProPublica report on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, is a Nazi sympathizer. Wood expressed his disapproval of Thomas and Crow’s friendship, which has resulted in Thomas’s staying at Crow’s property and free attendance on lavish vacations with him, but expressed outrage at innuendo and outright accusations that Crow’s collection of various historical artifacts, including items owned by Adolf Hitler, meant that he admired the German dictator’s deeds.

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