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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. An outstanding func- (Please turn to pag 24) * THE SOUTHERN ISRAEElT&j