WW2 American Nazism
German American Federation/Bund
Quoting the US National Archives:
“The German American Bund was an unincorporated voluntary national association established on March 29, 1936, to spread the philosophy of National Socialism and to carry out Adolph Hitler’s program insofar as it affected the United States. The leadership of the Bund attempted to meld Nazi racial theories with American patriotic values. Headquartered in New York, the Bund was a nationwide organization having three departments and approximately seventy local chapters throughout the United States, as well as numerous organizations which were directly or indirectly affiliated with it.”
The FBI investigated the Bund’s relationship to the Nazi Party of Germany. The FBI records release ranges from 1939 to 1941. The FBI records, including membership lists, are freely available online.
Links to e-resources:
- America of the 1930s saw thousands of people become Nazi
- Americans For Hitler – the Bund
- American Nazis in the 1930s—The German American Bund
- American Nazism and Madison Square Garden
- American Nazis and Nazi Sympathizers Have Been Around Since the 1930’s
- Considering History: Operation Paperclip and Nazis in America
- Fritz Kuhn, “The American Fuehrer” and the Rise and Fall Of The German-American Bund” by Eliot A. Kopp
- [Henry] Ford’s Anti-Semitism
- It can’t happen here?Confronting the fascist threat in the US in the late 1930s
- National Archives resources
- Nazi America (video) – Requires authentication
- Register of the John C. Metcalfe Papers, 1935-1949
- Resisting Nazi Propaganda in Southern California 1933-1945
- Surveillance report on a German American Bund meeting in Portland, December 29, 1938
- The Failure of American Nazism: The German-American Bund’s Attempt to Create an American “Fifth Column”
- U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum resources
- Who Was Fritz Kuhn and the German American Bund?
Videos/ Podcasts:
- American Nazis – The German American Bund
- A Night at the Garden
- Charles Lindbergh and the Rise of 1940s Nazi Sympathizers
- German-American Bund Rally Address- 20 February 1939
- When Nazis Took Manhattan
Online Courseware:
German American Bund Document Library:
Fascism Document Library:
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