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bund had worked sympathetically
with other organizations through
out the United States and CO.
operates with them. Kuhn testified
that some of these groups are the
Christian Front. the Christian Mo-
bilizers, the Christian Crusaders. the
Social Justice Society, the Silver
Shirt Legion of America, the
knights of the White Camellia and
various italian Fascist, White Rus
sian and Ukrainian organizations.
With reference to the exchange of
literature and propaganda material
between the bund and various
Fascist groups, the committee re-
ceived testimony that the following
are standard reading in bund
camps: Hitlers "Mein Kampf,'
Pelley's booklets and publication,
Liberation, the books of Julius
Streicher German propagandist),
and the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin S
publication, Social Justice.
The German-American Bund, like
the National Socialist Party in Ger
many, pays particular attention to
the training of its youth. Testimony
was heard that members of the
youth movement were taught moth
ing concerning American institu-
tions or ideals, and that they were
encouraged to be extremely critical
of the United States and its Gov
ernment.
It was established that groups of
leaders of the German American
Bund youth movement are fire.
quently sent to Germany for special
training.
A former bund member on the
West Coast testified that German
agents engaged in espionage activi-
ties, contacted bund leaders in the
United States and sought and re-
ceived their cooperation. This wit
ness also testified that he had heard
discussions among bund leaders with
reference to the manner in which
the bund, through its members in
various industrial plants, could efec-
lively carry out program Of sabo-
tage in case such action became nee
eSSary.
German Agents Elude
Arrest Through Bund.
Evidence was heard by the COM
mittee that members of the bund
had assisted German agents whose
arrests we're sought by officials in
the United States in avoiding appre-
hension and had helped get them
out of the United States with the
cooperation of German ships.
Evidence also was taken indicat-
ing that Nazi propaganda agencies
through officials of the German
government in the United States
have attempted to propagandize
educational institutions in this
country. It was testified that Ger
man consul general had offered, on
behalf of the German government
to subsidize German departments in
American universities provided the
professors were acceptable" to the
Nazis.
Cooperating groups-The COM
mittee has found abundant evidence
of the cooperation of certain other
organizations with the German
American Bund. This is a more
serious matter than is the direct
strength or influence of the bund it.
self For example, in August, 1898,
a so-called Communist conven-
ton was held at the bund headquar-
ters in Los Angeles at which Her.
mann Schwinn, leader of the bund
on the West Coast, was one of the
principal speakers, and Arno Risse,
bund leader, who has since fled the
country, was one of the two or
three persons most active in pro-
noting and making arrangements
for the convention. According to the
testimony of Henry D. Allen, one
time Silver Shirt leader, organizer
of the American White Guard, and
prominent figure in Fascist circles
generally, the following persons par
ticipated In this convention:
Kenneth Alexander, Southern