Hitler's American friends : the Third Reich's supporters in the United States

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Hitler's American friends : the Third Reich's supporters in the United States

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the Third Reich's supporters in the United States

Statement of responsibility

Bradley W. Hart

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Third Reich's supporters in the United States

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the Third Reichs supporters in the United States

Creator

• trueHart, Bradley W

Author

• trueHart, Bradley W

Subject

• trueFascism
• trueFascism -- United States
• Fascism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• German American Bund -- History
• trueGermany -- Foreign public opinion, American | History -- 20th century
• Germany -- Relations -- United States
• Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 -- Public opinion
• National socialism -- Public opinion
• trueNazis
• trueNazism
• Nonfiction
• truePublic opinion
• Public opinion -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• trueReligious discrimination
• trueUnited States
• trueUnited States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945
• United States -- Relations -- Germany
• Antisemitism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• trueAntisemitism

Language

eng

Summary

A book examining the strange terrain of Nazi sympathizers, nonintervention campaigners and other voices in America who advocated on behalf of Nazi Germany in the years before World War II. Americans who remember World War II reminisce about how it brought the country together. The less popular truth behind this warm nostalgia: until the attack on Pearl Harbor, America was deeply, dangerously divided. Bradley W. Hart's Hitler's American Friends exposes the homegrown antagonists who sought to protect and promote Hitler, leave Europeans (and especially European Jews) to fend for themselves, and elevate the Nazi regime. Some of these friends were Americans of German heritage who joined the Bund, whose leadership dreamed of installing a stateside FÃ1⁄4hrer. Some were as bizarre and hair-raising as the Silver Shirt Legion, run by an eccentric who claimed that Hitler fulfilled a religious prophesy. Some were Midwestern Catholics like Father Charles Coughlin, an early right-wing radio star who broadcast anti-Semitic tirades. They were even members of Congress who used their franking privilege--sending mail at cost to American taxpayers--to distribute German propaganda. And celebrity pilot Charles Lindbergh ended up speaking for them all at the America First Committee. We try to tell ourselves it couldn't happen here, but Americans are not immune to the lure of fascism. Hitler's American Friends is a powerful look at how the forces of evil manipulate ordinary people, how we stepped back from the ledge, and the disturbing ease with which we could return to it

Writing style

• trueRichly detailed

Dewey number

320.53/309730904

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography