"A bunch of Germans gathered in a beer hall lamented the fall of Germany during World War 1. They formed a social group called the German Workers Party to complain about their fates and blame others for Germany's defeat. They promoted the "stab-in-the-back" conspiracy theory that Germany didn't lose on the battlefield but that it was Jews and those who signed the Armistice of November 11, 1918, that caused Germany's downfall."
"The Nazis weren't content to keep their hatred of others in Germany. People of German ancestry worldwide were encouraged to praise "German values." In America, the Amerikadeutscher Volksbund, better known as the German Bund, was formed in 1936. They considered themselves patriotic Americans of German stock. The Bund soon had 70 divisions across the United States and created 20 youth and training camps."
Post–World War I German nationalist groups formed from beer-hall social clubs that blamed Jews and political opponents for Germany's defeat, promoting a "stab-in-the-back" conspiracy. The German Workers Party evolved under Adolf Hitler into the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazi Party). Nazi organizers sought influence among German diaspora, establishing the Amerikadeutscher Volksbund (German Bund) in the United States in 1936 with dozens of divisions and youth camps. The Bund staged public demonstrations, uniformed marches, and large rallies—culminating in a 1939 Madison Square Garden assembly of 20,000—demonstrating significant U.S. entrenchment of American Nazism before World War II.
Read at LEVEL Man
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]