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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827795203321

Autore

Diamond Sander A.

Titolo

The Nazi Movement in the United States, 1924–1941 / / Sander A. Diamond

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, New York : , : Cornell University Press, , 1974

Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project MUSE, , 2021

©1974

ISBN

0-8014-0788-5

1-5017-3294-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (380 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

322.4/2/0973

Soggetti

Fascism - United States

National socialism - United States

Germans

Germans - United States

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

I. Penetrating the German-American community -- From cultural to racial "Deutschtum" -- Germans look at their American cousins -- II. Germany's involvement in the United States, 1923-1935 -- The years of waiting, 1923-1932 -- The end of the long wait: Hitler comes to power -- The friends of the New Germany -- Hubert Schnuch, Ph. D., and the collapse of the Friends of the New Germany -- III. The Fritz Kuhn years, 1936-1939 -- The turning point -- The American Führer: Fritz Julius Kuhn -- The Amerikadeutscher Volksbund: the Nazi party in microcosm -- Kuhn's meeting with the German Führer: Summer 1936 -- IV. To the very end -- The betrayal -- Toward the final collapse -- The end of the pursuit.

Sommario/riassunto

Diamond provides a full account of the National Socialist movement in the United States. Drawing from the records of the groups collective known as the German-American Bund and a rich store of captured German documents, he describes the Bund's origins and leaders, its membership and ideology.