Nazi Inroads in U.S.A.
“Piece of German Soil in America” RESULT OF INVESTIGATIONS United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Tuesday, 7.40 p.m. WASHINGTON, April 3. After investigating the GermanAmerican "Volksbund," tho Bureau of Investigation of tho Department of Justice announced that members of the bund seek to instill and perpetuate in German-Americans "pride of their German background and Jove for Germany. '' G-men found that bund leader Fritz Kuhn had been associated with Ilerr Hitler in the Munich beer cellar putsch in 1923 and that German was a mandatory language in bund schools. The stars and stripes and the swastika flags were raised and lowered together in bund camps. One camp was dedicated as the "little piece of German soil in America." The department found no evidence that the bund was controlled from Germany or whether its Storm Troopers drill with firearms.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 80, 5 April 1939, Page 5
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