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Nothing seemed to excite the American people quite like the public activities of an apparently Hitler-sponsored organization in the United States. The reactions to the discovery of a Nazi group on American soil — really almost ten years in existence by that time — tended to run from one extreme to another. Attitudes ranging from complete indifference to hysteria helped to properly obscure an accurate evaluation. Actually most people were probably unaware that the German-American Bund that gained such a nefarious reputation in the later 1930’s had antecedents in two other Nazi-inspired organizations called the “Friends of New Germany,” and the National Association of Teutonia going back to 1924.
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Martin Dies, The Trojan Horse in America (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1940 ), P. 307.
State Dept. Special Interrogation Mission. Stroelin Interrogation, p. 18.
State Dept. Special Interrogation Mission, Stroelin Interrogation, p. 12.
Testimony before the McCormack Committee in 1934, by former members of the Teutonia gave the date of 1924.
U.S., Congress, House, Investigation of Nazi Propaganda Activities and Investigation of Certain Other Propaganda Activities, 73rd Cong., 2nd Sess., 1935, pp. 38ff. Hereinafter cited as U.S., Cong., H.R. Hearings 73.
U.S., Cong. H.R. Hearings 73, p. 67. Gissibl also stated that if a man was expelled from the Party in Germany for any reason he was also put out of the Teutonia. /bid., p. 72.
NSDAP Hauptarchiv, Teutonia Correspondence. The copy was dated 20 April 1930.
Ludecke, p. 325.
Ibid., Ludecke said that Nieland had appointed a janitor head of the New York
U.S., Cong., H.R. Hearings 73, pp. 121–129.
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Smith, A.L. (1965). The Dai and the ‘Friends of New Germany’. In: The Deutschtum of Nazi Germany and the United States. International Scholars Forum, vol 15. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-0931-2_3
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