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The German American Bund
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Length:
9 minutes
Released:
Feb 22, 2017
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Podcast episode
Description
In the 1930s, a group of German-American Nazi sympathisers known as the German American Bund held rallies and summer camps across the US. In Feburary 1939, they held a meeting for 20,000 people at Madison Square Garden in New York.Lucy Burns speaks to Skip Eernisse, who remembers the Bund summer camp Camp Hindenburg in his home town of Grafton, Wisconsin. We also hear from Arnie Bernstein, author of Swastika Nation: Fritz Kuhn and the Rise and Fall of the German American Bund.(Photo: German-American Nazi sympathisers rally in the US. Credit: Library of Congress)
Released:
Feb 22, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
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