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SWASTIKAS AND SILVER SHIRTS: THE DAWN OF AMERICAN NAZISM

Hall, Austin Carter
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0965-9867
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1564692534498581

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2019, Master of Arts, Miami University, History.
From 1922-1936, there was a considerable effort by Americans, German-Americans, and Germans to spread Nazi ideology throughout the United States. Figures such as Henry Ford who owned the anti-Semitic newspaper the Dearborn Independent was one of the first people to exert a concerted, nation-wide effort to fund anti-Semitic literature aimed at the common folk of America. With the NSDAP forming in 1920, some Nazis looked to the United States as a place outside of Germany where Nazism could flourish. Numerous organizations emerged in an attempt to spread hateful ideological stances. Alongside the rise of the “Second Klan,” American Nazism began to rear its head culminating in 1933 with the formation of the two groups that are prevalent in this study: William Dudley Pelley’s Silver Shirt Legion of America and Heinz Spanknobel’s Friends of New Germany. A failed Hitleresque Beer Hall Putsch attempt by the San Diego Silver Shirts, the smuggling in of Nazi propaganda by the Friends of New Germany, and the ensuing Congressional investigations into these two groups demonstrates the lengths that some organizations and their leaders went in order to provide anti-Semitic, anti-democratic, pro-Hitler, and pro-fascist literature, ideals, and ideas throughout the United States in the interwar era.
Erik Jensen (Advisor)
Mila Ganeva (Committee Member)
Steven Conn (Committee Member)
96 p.
American History; European History; History; Judaic Studies; Military History
Silver Shirts; Friends of New Germany; Ku Klux Klan; Henry Ford; German-American Bund; William Dudley Pelley; Silver Legion of America; Free Society of Teutonia; San Diego; California; German-American; Newspapers; McCormack-Dickstein; HUAC; 1930s

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  • Hall, A. C. (2019). SWASTIKAS AND SILVER SHIRTS: THE DAWN OF AMERICAN NAZISM [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1564692534498581

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Hall, Austin. SWASTIKAS AND SILVER SHIRTS: THE DAWN OF AMERICAN NAZISM. 2019. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1564692534498581.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Hall, Austin. "SWASTIKAS AND SILVER SHIRTS: THE DAWN OF AMERICAN NAZISM." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1564692534498581

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