The Nazi Movement in the United States, 1924-1941

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. THE NAZI MOVEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES1924–1941 Contents Preface Abbreviations lntroduction Part I Penetrating the German-American Community 1 From Cultural to Racial "Deutschtum" 2 Germans Look at Their American Cousins Part II Germany's lnvolvement in the United States, 1923–1935 3 The Years of Waiting, 1923–1932 4 The End of the Long Wait: Hitler Comes to Power 5 The Friends of the New Germany 6 Hubert Schnuch, Ph.D., and the Collapse of the Friends of the New Germany Part III The Fritz Kuhn Years, 1936–1939 7 The Turning Point 8 The American Führer: Fritz Julius Kuhn 9 The Amerikadeutscher Volksbund: The Nazi Party in Microcosm 10 Kuhn's Meeting with the German Führer : Summer 1936 Part IV To the Very End 11 The Betrayal 12 Toward the Final Collapse 13 The End of the Pursuit Appendixes I German lmmigrants Entering the United States, 1880–1933 II Regional Organization of the Amerikadeutscher Volksbund III Selected German Officials and Bund Personnel Cited IV Selected Newspapers Published by the American Bund Movement V Selected Bund Leaders and Subordinates Who Returned to Germany, 1938–1940 Bibliographical Note Index