Hitler's American Friends: The Third Reich's Supporters in the United States
- ISBN-10
- 1250148960
- ISBN-13
- 9781250148964
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 304
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-10-02
- Publisher
- Thomas Dunne Books
- Author
- Bradley W. Hart
Description
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 Führer. 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.
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2018-10-02
- 304 pages
- Paperback
- St. Martin's Griffin
Similar books
-
HITLER'S AMERICAN FRIENDS: Nazi Supporters in the United States
By Bradley W. HartHITLER'S AMERICAN FRIENDS: Nazi Supporters in the United States
-
Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law
By James Q. WhitmanDavid Scott Fitzgerald and David Cook-Martin, Culling the Masses: The Democratic Origins of Racist Immigration Policy in the Americas (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014), 7. 17. Fitzgerald and Cook-Martin, Culling the Masses ...
-
Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America
By Steven J. RossFeaturing a large cast of Nazis, undercover agents, and colorful supporting players, Hitler in Los Angeles, by acclaimed historian Steven J. Ross, tells the story of Lewis's daring spy network in a time when hate groups had moved from the ...
-
Hitler and America
By Klaus P. FischerA large number of German intellectuals, including Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, Thomas Mann, Friedrich Meinecke, Max Scheler, Friedrich Naumann, Walther Rathenau, and Adolf von Harnack, to name just a few, subscribed to what was called by ...
-
Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power
By Andrew NagorskiReading about the Nazis is not supposed to be fun, but Nagorski manages to make it so. Readers new to this story will find it fascinating” (The Washington Post).
-
Nazis in Newark
By Warren Grover"" --Professor Michael Alexander The Jewish Quarterly Review ""Very few people today realize that the U.S. mainland was the scene of battles against the Nazis. Warren Grover has produced an outstanding work on this subject.
-
Nazi Nexus: America's Corporate Connections to Hitler's Holocaust
By Edwin BlackNazi Nexus is the long-awaited wrap-up in a single explosive volume that details the pivotal corporate American connection to the Holocaust.
-
Swastika Nation: Fritz Kuhn and the Rise and Fall of the German-American Bund
By Arnie BernsteinA history of the German-American Bund traces the efforts of Fritz Kuhn and his followers to overthrow the U.S. government with a fascist dictatorship and develop their own version of the SS and Hitler Youth.
-
Hitler's American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and Germany's March to Global War
By Brendan Simms, Charlie LadermanThis book reveals how December 11, not Pearl Harbor, was the real watershed that created a world war and transformed international history.
-
Hollywood’s Spies: The Undercover Surveillance of Nazis in Los Angeles
By Laura B RosenzweigA few weeks after John Schmidt submitted his first report to Leon Lewis on Friends of the New Germany, Lewis called Red Squad captain Red Hynes and asked to meet him ... “But, I'd rather that 'M' stay on your payroll,” Lewis told Hynes.