The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-16

Snrlst was not a Jew" Kuhn said
ChrlSt was an Armenian!
With the change from the Hitler
salute to spurious Americanism
ana Christianity, the Bund spirit
penetrated deeper into native
american strata. Taking advan.
Sage OF the depression years and
making expert use of anti-Semi-
t!sm' Roosevelt-hate and the pit.
ing OF group against group, the
6und began to radiate and to sy-
pnon Its influence in the m $
christian American Patriotic
movement. The promotion of ma.
1--WE American fronts" as a screen
TO Bund activity became standard
practice, backed by illimitable
capital and the extensive Nazj
network OF organiza ton. With those
native fascists it could not control.
the Bund collaborated.
The law laid down by the Aus.
land Institut was enunciated by
Fritz Kuhn in the Deutscher Week.
ruf on his return from GERMANY:
One thing must be considered
quite definitely. We must impel
American politics with a pure Ger
man feeling. We must demand
from the candidates that h y,
above ali else, must always e
their influence that America, I'm.
der all circums tances, must keep
out of any European war. That
is the greatest service that we
can show Germany.
Our task is first the consoli.
dalton of all German racial groups
and second, the acquisition of in
fluence for subsequent show of
power in American politics. This
second part is most important.
American Germandon must be-
come dynamic, turn against its
adversaries. Our battlefield is fight
here, and mere is where we must
fight it out"
The Bund was only one arm of
the Nazi oc:opus-the radical and
revolutionary arm of the scheme
TOR Americas conquest. Fantastic
as 1t may sound, Nazi leaders who
had already carved the world for
themselves, had actually mapped
out a German Lebensraum" in
the midW est which planned to have
its own autonomous laws, press
and political representatives, and
would some day establish it's in
dependence - the identical tactics
which Conrad Henleir was assign
ed to follow in the Sudetenland.
The final aim was 10 be the re-
alization of unser (our) Amerika-
German America!
Questionnaires were actually
sent out to midwestern German
societies to determine the number
of votes controlled by German ra-
cial elements. 1t was the wild
Nazi dream to convert German
American communities into solid
German racial blocs (Volksge-
meinschaft) which would vote to
elect pro-Nazi officials to office,
and thus serve the role of a con
stitutional" fifth column. Hence,
the ddiligent attempts of Nazi
agents to establish Deutscne Volks-
grippe national groups) and in
still in them racial solidarity and
The German-American National
Alliance, with headquarters in Chi
cago served the midwest as a ire
Specialize front for Hitherto
views. Throughout its $50 units,
the Alliance vigorously promoted
Die Einhe: tsfront the United
Front" (of American Germandom
race-conscious, politically unified
and economically securely. It sup
ported the America First Commit
tee and exhorted members to las
sist financially and morally" all
isolationist and appeaser causes.
Die Einheitsfront succeeded in
inducing the Chicago Censorship
Board to refuse the exhibition OF
the movie Pastor Hall showing
Nazis in an unfavorable light. But
it applauded Sieg i'm Weston (Vic-
tory in the Vest which adver.
tised Nazi military power.
Copyright 1913 by E. P. Dutton
& Co.. Inc. Next installment: Elan
ders Hail.
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