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Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933. [2] In the years that followed, prior to the outbreak of World War II, some German-Americans attempted to create pro-Nazi movements in the U.S., often bearing swastikas and wearing uniforms. [3]
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 German American Bund, or the German American Federation (German: Amerikadeutscher Bund, Amerikadeutscher Volksbund, AV), was a German-American Nazi organization which was established in 1936 as a successor to the Friends of New Germany (FONG, FDND in German). The organization chose its new name in order to emphasize its American credentials ...
Her father supported Hitler until he came to understand the antisemitism and hatred that accompanied that detestable man. Still, many of her family continued to support Hitler. ... We Americans ...
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 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 ...
On August 3, 1933, Adolf Hitler received Sosthenes Behn (then the CEO of ITT) and his German representative, Henry Mann, in one of his first meetings with US businessmen. [16] [17] [18] [need quotation to verify] In his book Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler, Antony C. Sutton claims that ITT subsidiaries made cash payments to SS-leader ...
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