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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]
In 1940, the pro-American, anti-Bund Wisconsin Federation of German-American Societies opened Camp Carl Schurz in the Town of Grafton to compete with the Nazi-sympathizers. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Grafton experienced significant population growth during the suburbanization that followed World War II, and the village annexed more farm land from the ...
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.
In the late 1930s, a group of pro-Nazi German-Americans affiliated with the German American Bund purchased land on the Milwaukee River in the Town of Grafton. They ran a private camp called Camp Hindenburg and came into the village to march with Nazi flags and meet at the Grafton Hotel. [ 16 ]
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]
Image credits: historymemeshq American history writer and author of Swastika Nation: Fritz Kuhn and the Rise and Fall of the German-American Bund, Arnie Bernstein, also agrees that comedy and ...
Fritz Kuhn – German American Bund leader [475] ... Frank Zeidler – mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, serving three terms from April 20, 1948, to April 18, 1960 [547]
Milwaukee and its suburbs have many festivals devoted to its German heritage and history including Oktoberfest and German Fest. The genesis of German Fest occurred when Mayor Henry Maier challenged the local German-American community during a speech on May 20, 1980, at the 20th Anniversary of the German American National Congress (DANK) to organize a German festival.