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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.
Executed American collaborators with Nazi Germany (3 P) S. American spies for Nazi Germany (1 C, 6 P) W. American Waffen-SS personnel (2 P)
The pro-Nazi organizations in the U.S. were actively countered by a number of anti-Nazi organizations led by American Jews with other political activists and humanitarians who opposed Hitlerism and supported an anti-Nazi boycott of German goods since 1933, when Hitler and the Nazi Party came to power in Germany. The Joint Boycott Committee held ...
The two businessmen have passed away, but they actually belonged in prison.” [117] Erker's report concluded that Reimann Sr. and Reimann Jr. were virulent anti-Semites and keenly supported the Nazi Party, with Reimann Sr. donating to the SS in 1931, two years before Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany. [117]
The American government first became aware of the Holocaust in German-occupied Europe in 1942 and 1943. Following a report on the failure to assist the Jewish people by the Department of State , the War Refugee Board was created in 1944 to assist refugees from the Nazis.
When the war began in Europe (Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland) in September 1939, most Americans, including politicians, demanded neutrality regarding Europe. [30] Although most Americans supported strong measures against Japan, Europe was the focus of the America First Committee.
The American prosecution supported a longer list. [4] Added to haphazardly, this list was the basis of those to be prosecuted at Nuremberg. Some of the most prominent Nazis—Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, and Joseph Goebbels—had died by suicide and therefore could not be tried.
Hitler's American Friends: The Third Reich's Supporters in the United States. St. Martin's Publishing Group. Imlay, Talbot C.; Horn, Martin. The Politics of Industrial Collaboration during World War II. Lund, Joachim (August 1, 2006). Working for the New Order: European Business Under German Domination, 1939–1945. Copenhagen Business School ...