Swastika Nation: Fritz Kuhn and the Rise and Fall of the German-American Bund

by Arnie Bernstein

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In the late 1930s, the German-American Bund, led by its popinjay dictator Fritz Kuhn, was a small but powerful national movement, determined to conquer the United States government with a fascist dictatorship. They met in private social halls and beer garden backrooms, gathered at private resorts and public rallies, developed their own version of the SS and Hitler Youth, published a national newspaper and-for a brief moment of their own imagined glory-seemed poised to make an impact on American politics. But while the American Nazi leadership dreamed of their Swastika Nation, an amalgamation of politicians, a rising legal star, an ego-charged newspaper columnist, and denizens of the criminal underworld utilized their respective means and muscle to bring down the movement and its dreams of a United Reich States.
  • ISBN10 1250036445
  • ISBN13 9781250036445
  • Publish Date 3 September 2013
  • Publish Status Active
  • Imprint St. Martin's Press
  • Format eBook
  • Language English