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Nazidom
In the United States
I N 1929 the National Socialist Party attained
such proportions in Germany as to command
the attention of the world. A year later, when
its forces \rcrc sufficiently strengthened within
Germany itself, its leadership decided to expand
the activities of the organization and to found Nazi
cells in other lands. At this point there were
founded in the United States the nuclei for the
present Nazi organization which functions in many
cities throughout the country.
The National Socialist theory did not fall on
virgin soil. For many years there had been ar
dent adherents of the Hitler code, who made it
their business to disseminate the Nazi theories to
the extent possible. Even at this date
these persons were in active contact with
the Fichto Bund, the official centre for
distribution of Nazi literature and infor
mation to foreign countries whose head
quarters arc located in Germany. Orders
were directly convoyed to the American
sympathizers from Nazi headquarters in
Germany, and were carried out to the
letter.
At this period the leader of the Amer
ican faction was a mechanic, George
Stolzenfcls. The latter’s efforts, however,
to establish Nazi centers throughout the
country, failed of realization. Finding
this unsatisfactory, central Nazi head
quarters in Germany turned over the di
rectorship .of the American activities to
Paul Manger. Mr. Manger undertook not
only to form parallel units of the German
Nazi organization of the United States,
but to organize storm troops as well.
Propaganda material was forwarded from
Germany and distributed in the local cen
ters. Provided with but meagre funds,
the activities of the organization were
limited and its propaganda sparse. For
four years Nazi affairs in the United
States were conducted under Mangor’s
leadership and with no very wide results.
Hitler’s ascension to power on January
30th, 1933, completely changed the sit
uation in the United States. A new' im
petus was given the organization. Large
funds, new' forces, greater propaganda ma
terial and a new regimen were intro
duced almost immediately. Dissensions
w’ithin the party w’ere promptly resolved,
and an active organization w’ith an iron
discipline replaced the rather slip-shod
body which had preceded Hitler’s rise to
the Chancellorship.
Late in March orders from the Ger
man government called for the dissolution
of this official branch of the National Socialist
Party of Germany. The leaders were recalled,
including Paul Manger, who now\ incidentally,
occupies a fairly prominent position in the German
Nazi organization. The official dissolution of the
Nazi organization, how’ever, only served as a pre
text. It did not mean the end of Nazi activities
in the United States with the sanction and the
subvention of the German authorities. A new' or
ganization w r as immediately set up upon orders
from abroad, carrying the name of the “League
of the Friends of New Germany,” the leadership
entrusted to Paul Paulson. The Aryanization tac
tics were inaugurated. Members were recruited
By Klaus Meyer
not only from the German colony but from “pure”
Americans. Active membership, however, was lim
ited to Germans w'hile the Americans w'ere re
stricted to contributing membership status. Offi
cially the organization had no status as far as the
Nationalist Socialist Party was concerned. Act
ually not a single step is undertaken without the
knowledge and approval of National Socialist
headquarters in Germany, while the leaders of the
American group are subjected to the strictest Nazi
party discipline.
(llcproduccd lty kiwi permission of thi' Proprietors of "Punch" of London. England.)
PRECEPT AND PRACTICE
Hkrk Hitler. “THE WORLD PERSECUTES US. WE WANT PEACE. . . . YOU
WILL NEVER ERADICATE THE DEMAND FOR EQUAL RIGHTS IN OUR
PEOPLE.
WE WANT TO STRIVE TO WORK, TO LIVE IN BROTHERHOOD.’
(Extract from the German Chancellor's May-dag speech)
After the initial steps in setting up the organi
zation had been carried through by Paulson, the
active propaganda work was entrusted to Erich
Wiegand, who had been w'ell schooled in Nazi
methods in Germany. One of Wiegand’s first
steps w r as to attempt to secure a daily propaganda
organ in German. Unw'illing to finance the set-up
of a new* paper, Wiegand approached the New
York Staatszeitung w’ith the plan of converting it
into a Nazi organ. The editor of that paper ex
plained, however, that the Staatszeitung could not
officially become a Nazi organ as it w'ould lose
all of its Jew'ish advertising on w'hich the finances
were largely dependent. In this connection it
might be noted the Staatszeitung publishers, Bnj
nard and Victor Ridder, have since committe
themselves and the paper to definite pro-Hitlf
sympathies.
To date, Wiegand has not been able to pi
lish a daily organ. Failing this, however,
Nazis were able to establish a series of week!
publications financed by Germans of means. Dac
ing in this undertaking is Eugene Heiss. The f |
weekly published is Amerika’s Deutsche Post,
paper’s policy is dedicated to unleashing propa
ganda to counteract the impression made upon - I
telligent public opinion by the policy of opprol
sion pursued by the Hitler government against the!
Jews. America’s Deutsche Post is act I
ly engaged in fostering a boya |
ment against American firms in retaliation
as it explains, for the boycott movemrr'l
initiated against German products by t *
Jews as a protest against the discrii
tion of their co-religionists in Germ.
This publication has been supplemented!
with an English edition called the Amer
ican Observer, whose efforts are dirccte
at securing American converts to the cau/l
of anti-Semitism. Most recently a third!
publication has been added in New Yo:k|
City known as “Die Bruecke.”
This newest organ w'as founded with I
the assistance of a Park Avenue physician,
Dr. Griebl, but may be regarded as thel
latest output of the “Friends of New Gr
many,” although it is labelled as the or|
gan of the German Legion.
The adherents of the “Friends of Nw
Germany” are largely recruited from tin
lower middle-classes, dissatisfied petp
tradesmen, clerks, mechanics, servant-girl'
and unemployed. Erich Wiegand is the;
agitatory genius. Much in demand as ]
speaker, his services are supplemented b*
a speakers’ bureau, the representative' or j
which are available for meetings through I
out the country. The organization meet']
regularly in New York City every Frida--
night in Kreutzerhalle, located on ta>’
86th Street. When the organization was
first formed, attendance at the meeting
w T as restricted to members only. Now
however, they are open to the genera
public and are attended by some 150 to j
200 people weekly.
Every member of the “Friends of V v
Germany” is required to bring as man
visitors to these meetings as possible w
order that they may have Nazi ideas in
stilled in them. Erich Wiegand is usual!
the speaker of the evening, and his ad
dresses are followed by discussions. The genera
platitudes of Nazi propaganda are repeated
every member tries to out-do his neighbor in tne
violence of his anti-Semitic view’s.
Every German member of the “Friends of V"
Germany" is automatically a member of the Ge f '
man National Socialist Party and, as such, un
strict discipline. They’ learn their speeches by x<y (
according to the Nazi plan. They must, for
ample, stress that France is still the enemy
Germany. At Nazi meetings in New' Y'ork. I rarKf
is described as a degenerated Negro nation rf
sponsible for the downfall of Germany.
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