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German Americans (German: Deutschamerikaner, pronounced [ˈdɔʏtʃʔameʁɪˌkaːnɐ]) are Americans who have full or partial German ancestry. The 2020 census results showed over 44,978,546 Americans self-identifying as German alone or in combination with another ancestry. This includes 15,447,670 who chose German alone.
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German Americans (German: Deutschamerikaner) are citizens of...
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The German American Bund, or the German American Federation...
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German Americans. German Americans is a ethnic group of American citizens of German ancestry. [1] According to the United States Census Bureau, in 2013 there were 46 million Americans who claimed some German ancestry. [1] In parts of the Northern United States they outnumber any other ethnic groups. [1]
German Americans (German: Deutschamerikaner) are citizens of the United States who are of German ancestry; they form the largest ethnic ancestry group in the United States, accounting for 17% of U.S. population. [1] The first significant numbers arrived in the 1680s in New York and Pennsylvania.
German Americans are Americans who have full or partial German ancestry. The 2020 census results showed over 44,978,546 Americans self-identifying as German alone or in combination with another ancestry. This includes 15,447,670 who chose German alone.
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Friends of New Germany
In May 1933, Nazi Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess gave German immigrant and German Nazi Party member Heinz Spanknöbel authority to form an American Nazi organization. Shortly thereafter, with help from the German consul in New York City, Spanknöbel created the Friends of New Germany by merging two older organizations in the United States, Gau-USA and the Free Society of Teutonia, which were both small groups with only a few hundred members each. The FONG was based in New York City but had a strong...
Bund's activities
On March 19, 1936, the German American Bund was established as a follow-up organization for the Friends of New Germany in Buffalo, New York. The Bund elected a German-born American citizen Fritz Julius Kuhn as its leader (Bundesführer). Kuhn was a veteran because he served in the Bavarian infantry during World War I and he was also an Alter Kämpfer (old fighter) for the Nazi Party who was granted American citizenshipin 1934. Kuhn was initially effective as a leader because he was able to unit...
Decline
In 1939, a New York tax investigation alleged that Kuhn had embezzled over $14,000 from the Bund (equivalent to $295,000 in 2022). The Bund did not seek to have Kuhn prosecuted, operating on the principle (Führerprinzip) that the leader had absolute power. However, New York City's district attorneyprosecuted him in an attempt to cripple the Bund. On December 5, 1939, Kuhn was sentenced to two and a half to five years in prison for tax evasion and embezzlement. New Bund leaders replaced Kuhn,...
Relationship with Germany
Key members of the Bund often claimed to have a relationship with the German Nazi party in Berlin in order to legitimise the organisation in the eyes of the American public. For example, Helen Vooros, the former Bund youth leader, claimed that ‘“she was taught” that the Nazis planned an Austrian-like anschluss with the United States and ‘recognised Bund leader Fritz Kuhn as the “United States’ Fuehrer”’. Although there was never any evidence to suggest this was true, it reveals how the Bund f...
Relationship with America
Meanwhile, in America, there was a growing fear that the Bund was working with Germany to spark a fascist revolution in the States. American newspapers rallied fear surrounding the organisation by creating no distinction between the Nazi party and the German-American Bund. In the aftermath of the 1939 rally in Madison Square Gardens, The New York Times stated that the Bund was “determined to destroy our democracy and to establish in its place a fascist dictatorship”. Statements such as this p...
Impact on German-American Relations
In the 1930s, the Bund amplified the anti-German feeling which lingered in the American public's consciousness and Americans believed that the Bund posed a threat to their way of life. Political leaders such as Roosevelt recognised the threat which the Nazi ideology posed to the West and they used the American people's fear of the Bund as a helpful tool in support of their efforts to steer the American people towards the possibility of war. Fear of Nazi ideology triggered tensions between Ger...
Black Legion (political movement), an offshoot of the second Ku Klux KlanNotes Further reading 1. Allen, Joe (2012-2013) "'It Can't Happen Here?': Confronting the Fascist Threat in the US in the Late 1930s". International Socialist ReviewPart One: n.85 (September–October 2012), pp. 26–35; Part Two: n.87 (January–February 2013) pp. 19–28. 2. Bell, Leland V. (1973) In Hitler's Shadow; The Anatomy of American Nazism. Assoc...
Mp3 of National Leader Fritz Julius Kuhn address at the 1939 Madison Square Garden rally (from Talking History: The Radio Archives)What Price the Federal Reserve?– Illustrated antisemitic pamphlet issued by the BundPeople also ask
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May 23, 2018 · When Hitler came to power in Germany, another surge of intellectuals, many of them Jewish, fled his regime and came to the United States. A total of 130,000 Germans immigrated to the United States between 1933 and 1945. German Americans already in the United States did not support Hitler, either.
