NAZI ACTIVITY IN U.S.
LEADER ASSOCIATE OF HITLER SWASTIKA COMBINED WITH FLAG J INVESTIGATION BY DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.) (Received April 5, 1 a.m.) WASHINGTON, April 4. After investigating the German- ' American Bund the Bureau of Investigation of the Department of Justice announced that its members seek to instil and perpetuate in Ger-man-Americans “the pride of their German background and a love for Germany.” Agents found that the Bund leader, Fritz Kuhn, had been associated with Herr Hitler in the Munich beer-cellar “putsch” in 1923 and that German was a mandatory language in the Bund schools.
The stars and stripes and the swastika were raised and lowered together in. Bund camps and one camp was dedicated as “a little piece of German soil in America.” The department found no evidence that the Bund was controlled from Germany or whether storm troopers drilled with firearms.
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Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22678, 5 April 1939, Page 11
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