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Fritz Kuhn and the Rise and Fall of the German-American Bund
Picador
September 2014
On Sale: September 9, 2014
360 pages ISBN: 1250056012 EAN: 9781250056016 Kindle: B00C74YPNU Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
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Non-Fiction History
In the late 1930s, the German-American Bund, led by its
popinjay dictator Fritz Kuhn, was a small but powerful
national movement in pre-World War II America, determined to
conquer the United States government with a fascist
dictatorship. They met in private social halls and beer garden
backrooms, gathered at private resorts and public rallies,
developed their own version of the SS and Hitler Youth,
published a national newspaper and--for a brief moment of
their own imagined glory--seemed poised to make an impact on
American politics.
But while the American Nazi leadership dreamed of their
Swastika Nation, an amalgamation of politicians, a rising
legal star, an ego-charged newspaper columnist, and denizens
of the criminal underworld utilized their respective means and
muscle to bring down the movement and its dreams of a United
Reich States. Swastika Nation by Arnie Bernstein is a story of bad guys,
good guys, and a few guys who fell somewhere in-between. The
rise and fall of Fritz Kuhn and his German-American Bund at
the hands of these disparate fighters is a sometimes funny,
sometimes harrowing, and always compelling story from start to
finish.
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