Ebook: Swastika Nation Fritz Kuhn and the Rise and Fall of the German-American Bund
- Tags: German American Bund--History, Germans, Germans--United States--History--20th century, Kuhn Fritz 1896-1952--(Fritz Julius), History, Kuhn Fritz -- (Fritz Julius) -- 1896-1952, German American Bund -- History, Germans -- United States -- History -- 20th century, German American Bund, United States, Kuhn Fritz 1896-1952 -- (Fritz Julius)
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: St. Martin's Press
- City: New York;NY;United States
- Edition: 1. US ed
- Language: English
- epub
In the late 1930s, the German-American Bund, led by its popinjay dictator Fritz Kuhn, was a small but powerful national movement in pre-World War II America, 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.
Swastika Nation by Arnie Bernstein is a story of bad guys, good guys, and a few guys who...