Separated Together: The Incredible True WWII Story of Soulmates Stranded an Ocean Apart (Holocaust Survivor True Stories WWII Book 7) by Kenneth P. Price Ph.D

Author:Kenneth P. Price Ph.D. [Price Ph.D., Kenneth P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789493231092
Publisher: Amsterdam Publishers
Published: 2021-01-26T22:00:00+00:00

American Nazis?

Adding to his dismay over the position in which he found himself, Abe was shocked to discover the existence of a Nazi organization in the United States. Some five months before Abe landed on American shores, the land of the free, the home of the brave, the land of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all, without regard for religion or national origin, a huge pro-Nazi rally was held in New York City’s Madison Square Garden on February 20, 1939. The house was packed. Estimates of the crowd inside the Garden varied from 20,000 to 50,000 cheering spectators listening to speeches glorifying Hitler and threatening the Jews. On October 30, 1939, the German American Bund members decked out in Nazi-like uniforms marched in a parade down East 86th street. To the Goldeneh Medina, where any man could become rich and successful if only he worked hard, came Abe, who had sailed away from a continent with a long history of antisemitism and pogroms.1 “They” were here, even in America.

In contrast to Europe, the United States had had essentially little history of antisemitism, no pogroms, and only a few isolated cases of the murder of Jews, qua Jews.

But, especially since the Führer had come to power, a pro-Nazi organization, known as the Friends of the New Germany was founded to disseminate pro-Nazi and anti-Jewish propaganda. Sixty percent of its membership comprised German nationals living in the United States. A national leader of the organization was indicted by the Justice Department for not registering as a foreign agent and fled back to Germany. Fearful of jeopardizing relations with the United States, the Nazi-regime banned German nationals from joining the organization and it collapsed. In its place arose the German American Bund based primarily on the East Coast, though it had branches across the country and in California as well. A similar organization known as the Silver Shirts established itself in North Carolina and Los Angeles. Their membership was composed mostly of German immigrants who had come to America after the First World War.

The leader of the Bund, Fritz Kuhn, a wannabe U.S. Führer who had organized the Garden’s Nazi fest, was finally put out of business when the U.S. government indicted him for embezzling Bund funds to pay for, among other things, rent and gifts for his New York girlfriend. When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and the Führer declared war on the United States three days later, the U.S. population was no longer in a mood to tolerate pro-Nazis. The Bund disbanded. Some of its members were interned or deported. American boys of German extraction who had no sympathy for the Nazis joined with Jewish and Christian Americans to enlist in the U.S. armed forces.

Beginning on October 5, 1930, a prominent Catholic priest, and virulent antisemite, Father Coughlin, had hosted a radio show on the CBS network where he spewed antisemitic, pro-Nazi rants that could have matched any broadcasts from German Nazi, propaganda radio.

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