Ronald Reagan Was the Only President to Wear a Nazi Uniform (in a movie)
It would be difficult to find a group that is more justly despised in modern history than the Nazis. They were awful in pretty much every manner imaginable. They have also been deeply entrenched in popular culture ever since the war's end, and perhaps even before.
They are nearly ideal villains that can be defeated by any hero without causing controversy by serving as the plot's antagonists because no one wants to see them eliminated. Because of this, Captain America has been kicking Nazis in the face since the early 1940s, and countless other movies featuring other heroes have shown them doing the same.
For actors who don't want people to associate them with hatred, playing a Nazi in a movie must be at least a little intimidating, but as long as everyone knows it's fiction, what harm can there be? And perhaps for that reason the only American President to have ever worn a Nazi uniform, at least that we are aware of, was an actor in a motion picture. For the 1942 film Desperate Journey, Ronald Reagan once donned Nazi garb.
- 40th President of the United States
Born: Ronald Wilson Reagan, February 6, 1911Tampico, Illinois, U.S.
Died: June 5, 2004 (aged 93)Los Angeles, California, U.S.
