America's Nazis by Susan Canedy
Susan Canedy's book, America's Nazis, is a detailed history of the German American Bund. The Bund is interesting as it was the largest National Socialist movement in the United States to date, with a top membership of 30,000. Their largest rally in Madison Square Garden had 20,000 attendees. It also had the closest relationship to the actual NSDAP; leader Fritz Kuhn essentially transplanted every program of National Socialism into American form. The book is a useful history. Canedy obtained some documents from Martin Kerr at the NSWPP, and conducted interviews with anonymous members of the Bund who were still alive at the time of writing (1990). It would be great to see those full interviews instead of the still-biased presentation we see here. Learning about the Bund directly from former members would have been extraordinarily interesting. They've had to live their entire lives in anonymous shadow - after a childhood spent camping, singing SS marchi