The German American Bund: A Pro-Nazi Organization in the United States

This is from the Holocaust Encyclopedia.
It was a lot of new information for me!

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The German American Bund was one of the most notorious fascist organizations in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s. At an era of heightened American antisemitism, it claimed that Jews were the enemies of both Germans and Americans. Bund members promoted the lie that Jews were conspiring to control politics, economics, the media, and other areas of society. The Bund promoted the false accusation that Jews were to blame for Communism, a conspiracy theory called “Judeo-Bolshevism.”

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Estimates for German American Bund membership vary, in part because the Bund tended to be secretive about who had joined. There may have been as many as 25,000 dues-paying members at the organization’s peak during the late 1930s. Membership was strongest in the northern and eastern United States. By 1937, there were members in every state except for Louisiana. Everyone who applied to be a member of the Bund had to declare that they had no Jewish or African American ancestors.

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The Bund became a well-known organization in the United States. However, it played a minor role within the German-American community. The vast majority of the more than 8 million people of German ancestry in the United States did not join or support the Bund.

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The Bund’s vision for the United States was based on an eight-point plan. Central tenets of the plan included:

establishing white Christian supremacy in the United States;
expelling Jews from labor unions and government positions;
ending relations with Soviet Russia and outlawing Communism in the United States;
stopping the flow of refugees into the United States; and
isolating the United States from international conflicts and world affairs.

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/german-american-bund

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Sound familiar?

I'll bet you anything Fred Trump was a member!!!