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  title info:
    title: Hitler's American friends
    sub title: the Third Reich's supporters in the United States
  name:
    name part: Hart, Bradley W.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 296 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: A book examining the strange terrain of Nazi sympathizers, nonintervention campaigners and other voices in America who advocated on behalf of Nazi Germany in the years before World War II. Americans who remember World War II reminisce about how it brought the country together. The less popular truth behind this warm nostalgia. Until the attack on Pearl Harbor, America was deeply, dangerously divided. Bradley W. Hart's Hitler's American Friends exposes the homegrown antagonists who sought to protect and promote Hitler, leave Europeans (and especially European Jews) to fend for themselves and elevate the Nazi regime. Some of these friends were Americans of German heritage who joined the Bund, whose leadership dreamed of installing a stateside Führer. Some were as bizarre and hair-raising as the Silver Shirt Legion, run by an eccentric who claimed that Hitler fulfilled a religious prophesy. Some were Midwestern Catholics like Father Charles Coughlin, an early right-wing radio star who broadcast anti-Semitic tirades. They were even members of Congress who used their franking privilege, sending mail at cost to American taxpayers, to distribute German propaganda. And celebrity pilot Charles Lindbergh ended up speaking for them all at the America First Committee. We try to tell ourselves it couldn't happen here, but Americans are not immune to the lure of fascism. Hitler's American Friends is a powerful look at how the forces of evil manipulate ordinary people, how we stepped back from the ledge and the disturbing ease with which we could return to it.
  table of contents: The Bund -- The Silver Legion and the chief -- The religious right -- The senators -- The businessmen -- The students -- America First! -- The spies.
  note: Bradley W. Hart.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-gx---
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Hitler, Adolf
      name part: 1889-1945
    topic: Public opinion
  subject:
    name:
      name part: German American Bund
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1933-1945
  subject:
    geographic: Germany
    topic: Foreign public opinion, American
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: National socialism
    topic: Public opinion
  subject:
    topic: Fascism
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Antisemitism
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Relations
    geographic: Germany
  subject:
    geographic: Germany
    topic: Relations
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Public opinion
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / United States / General
  classification: E806 .H35 2018
  classification: 320.53/309730904
  identifier: 9781250148957
  identifier: 1250148952
  identifier: 9781250148964
  identifier: 2018022341
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180625
    record change date: 20190122133945.0
    record identifier: in00003998515