The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-11-14
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Rogge's detailed charges.
Federated Press has obtained
one of the few existing copies of
the suppressed report and as back
ground for subsequent detailed
stories on it's revelations, here de-
scribes the elaborate apparatus the
Nazis set up to work with their
American sympathizers to influ-
ence U. S. policy.
Leaders of the worldwide Nazi
movement in Berlin regarded the
U. S. as tremendously important
objective and devoted increasing
attention to it. Pulling the Nazi
strings in America were the for
eign organization of the Nazi
party, which is known to have had
at least 548 local groups in as for
eign countries, the foreign office
headed by Joachim Won Ribben-
trop, and Joseph Goebbels' high
powered radio and newspaper
propaganda machine.
Berlin's commands were siphon-
ed through the German consulates
in New York, Cleveland, Chicago,
New Orleans, Los Angeles and
San Francisco. The German diplo-
matte corps, together with agents
Berlin sent here on special mis-
sions from time to time, were con-
tact men for George Sylvester
Viereck, Germany's No. l propa-
gandist in the U. S., and the active
corps of native fascists, isolation
ist and select German-b born Ameri-
cans that Berlin has at it's dis
posal here.
The American people were bonn
barded with Nazi propaganda not
only through the efforts of Viereck
and the German-subsidized native
fascist press, but through German
fraternal, civic and cultural organ
izations in the U. S. and special
committees.
These included organizations
which had been in existence before
the Nazis seized power, such as the
League for Germandom Abroad,
the German Foreign Institute, the
Fichte Bund and World Service,
Transocean, the German new
agency, the German Library of In
formation and the German Rail
roads Information Office.
In 1889 a special American Com
mittee was set up by Won Ribben-
trop with its main purpose to pre-
vent the reelection of President |
in 1910 and 1914. Activi-
ties of the American Committee |
were described to Rogge by Her
bert Won Strempel, political and
press attache at the German en-
bassy in Washington:
"When | returned Ito Germany
in 1912 | found that there had
been organized in the foreign of
flee the A erica Committee
which was headed first by Ambas-
sador Dieckhoff and later by Colin
Ross. This committee was a kind
Of interdepartment committee in
order to coordinate the political
activities of different departments
IN the foreign office, such as the
Radio Department, the Press De-
Dartment, the Information Depart
nent, and the like"
At the disposal of the Nazis i'm
he u. S. were various secret funds
IF American money roughly esti-
mated at more than million dol
ars which they used to finance
heir agents and propaganda work.
The German embassy in Washing
on had a special war fund"
which was frequently drawn on by
he German consuls. i
In future stories FTP will show
low the Nazis used this machinery
o develop close cooperation with
sections of American industry, the
american press and members of
Congress, who worked with them
oward a Nazi victory.