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German American Bund parade on East 86th St., New York City, October 30, 1937. On March 19, 1936, the German American Bund was established as a follow-up organization for the Friends of New Germany in Buffalo, New York. [7] [18] The Bund elected a German-born American citizen Fritz Julius Kuhn as its leader (Bundesführer). [19]
The largely decentralized Bund was active in several regions; still, it attracted support only from a minority of German Americans, both immigrants and naturalized American citizens. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The Bund however was the most influential of several pro-Nazi German groups in the United States in the 1930s ; others included the Teutonia Society ...
The German American Bund severed its connection with the German American Settlement League in 1940, and the League took over the Camp with the announcement that henceforth it would be "non-political." [20] Nevertheless, the camp was seized and shut down by the U.S. government when Germany declared war on the United States.
However, in March 1936, the German American Bund was established in Buffalo as a follow-up organization. [8] The Bund elected the German-born American citizen Kuhn as its leader. [9] Kuhn, while describing the Bund as "sympathetic to the Hitler government", denied that the organization received money or took orders from the government of Germany.
By March 1936, Friends of New Germany was dissolved and its membership transferred to the newly-formed German American Bund, the new name being chosen to emphasise the group's American credentials after press criticism that the organisation was unpatriotic. [17] The Bund was to consist only of American citizens of German descent. [18]
Left-leaning networks like MSNBC leaned into the comparison by splicing in footage from the hateful 1939 rally by the German American Bund with clips of Trump’s supporters.
Nazi march of the German American Bund on East 86th St., New York City, 30 October 1939. Nazism in the Americas has existed since the 1930s and continues to exist today. The membership of the earliest groups reflected the sympathies some German Americans and German Latin Americans had for Nazi Germany.
The German American Bund was the most prominent and well-organized fascist organization in the United States. It was founded in 1936, following the model of Hitler 's Nazi Germany . It appeared shortly after the founding of several smaller groups, including the Friends of New Germany and the Silver Legion of America , founded in 1933 by William ...