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"The origin of Nazis sounds very much like the founding of the Ku Klux Klan
(KKK). A bunch of Germans gathered in a beer hall lamented the fall of Germany
during World War 1. They formed a social group called the German Workers Party
to complain about their fates and blame others for Germany’s defeat. They
promoted the “stab-in-the-back” conspiracy theory that Germany didn’t lose on
the battlefield but that it was Jews and those who signed the Armistice of
November 11, 1918, that caused Germany’s downfall.
The original members of the German Workers Party had their version of the “Lost
Cause” adopted by the South after the Civil War in America. The KKK in America
didn’t sprout wings until they got a charismatic leader, Nathan Bedford
Forrest, that expanded the Klan to 40,000 in its early years. The German
Workers Party got Adolf Hitler and changed their name to the National Socialist
German Workers’ Party (NSDAP), more commonly called the Nazi Party.
The Nazis weren’t content to keep their hatred of others in Germany. People of
German ancestry worldwide were encouraged to praise “German values.” In
America, the Amerikadeutscher Volksbund, better known as the German Bund, was
formed in 1936. They considered themselves patriotic Americans of German stock.
The Bund soon had 70 divisions across the United States and created 20 youth
and training camps.
In 1937, over 1,000 men wearing uniforms and swastikas marched by a New Jersey
reviewing stand while celebrating the opening of a 100-acre camp in Suxxex
Hills. Guests included Italian-American Facists who addressed the Bund as “Nazi
Friends.”
By 1939, The German Bund filled Madison Square Garden with 20,000 strong. The
American version of the Nazi Party was entrenched throughout America, from
coast to coast and in the Midwest as well."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
