America's Nazis by Susan Canedy
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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 marching songs, and living in energetic Germanic unity, the America of 1990 must have seemed quite awful.
One thing I found interesting about the Bund is that it was essentially formed of Germans who had recently arrived in the United States. Most of its propaganda was in German, and the membership spoke German. There was considerable divide inside the German-American community regarding the Bund.
The book details the anti-German bias in America, which has quite a long history. Anti-German programs were in place as early as World War I. Indeed, the entire field of "anti-whiteness" we see today was in large part invented by the anti-German Anglo/Jewish ruling class of the early 1900's. In 1917, Woodrow Wilson created a group called the American Protective League - for $1 an American received a badge and was given special permission to conduct investigations on anyone they thought might be a foreign spy, and these amateur sleuths (today they would be called "antifa" or "journalists") were turned upon German America. 200,000 Americans gladly claimed their snitch badge, conducting thousands of what would otherwise be illegal investigations, and did not turn up a single spy. The main purpose however, of pitting public opinion against German-Americans was achieved quite handily.
American Protective League
This is clearly the same exact tactic of antifa today - they have tacit permission to investigate, name and publicize dissidents' personal information. Their "heckler's veto" against pro-Germanic speakers remains unchallenged. There are no arrests against them for violence or property damage. So, in case this wasn't widely known, antifa is a quasi-governmental organization given tacit support to use illegal means to suppress pro-White thought, gatherings and speakers. The argument that the government shouldn't be suppressing the First Amendment, while technically true, is extremely weak - our government has always used extra-legal means to suppress German speech. Antifa will be stopped at the point where the consequences of anti-German activity outweigh the benefits, and we are a long way from that.
As America diversifies, anti-Whiteness will actually be more difficult for the government. 200,000 White-Anglos fighting 30,000 White-German Bund members was extremely effective; two hundred thousand Latinos, Asians and blacks is another thing entirely. The Anglos were able to infiltrate the German ranks easily; they also could claim Americanism as a legitimate political cover for their anti-German activity. The new Americans will not be able to infiltrate WN ranks effectively, and cannot claim any motivation other than anti-whiteness; another example of how becoming minorities will increase White group cohesion.
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To sum up, Canedy's American Nazis is a piece of academic literature, hostile to National Socialism and white people generally; it does however contain excellent photographs and an often fair presentation of data. In boxes somewhere at the National Archives are pictures of kids Sieg Heiling at Camp Nordland in New Jersey, films of brownshirts marching swastikas through the streets of New York City, and more interestingly, the newsletters and organizational documents of the Bund. Fritz Kuhn built a large and effective organization which the German NSDAP would have done well to support more effectively. The System spin on the Bund is that it was financed by Hitler, but this book disputes that point, showing that none of the party's internal documentation shows any assistance coming from Germany at all. There was a brief meeting between Hitler and Kuhn, but at the time Hitler was building the party program inside Germany and trying to hold off international war as best he could, and didn't need the additional headaches of American hostility. Unfortunately this was a miscalculation as the very thing he needed in America was more Bund and not less. Financing a radicalized civil war inside the United States would have helped Germany greatly, and seems to be a strategy Russia is employing against the United States now. The Bund attempted to be essentially a far-right flavor of Civic Nationalism, but was ultimately destroyed through the brute force of the state via the usual means of lawsuits, planted evidence and phony arrests.
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Could the Bund happen again? Hard to say, American whites at the time consisted of much more individualist Anglo-Saxons than today. Socialism, like atheism, is much more accepted among young whites today, and the Liberal/Christian/Equality world view now is colliding with the Collectivist/Socialist/Volkish. As far as future organizing for Germans in North America, the focus would have to be on a large cultural movement that gets Germans out of the anti-German system. Attempting to assert German rights inside a hostile nation is not going to work, and this means not voting democrat or republican, but casting votes only for pro-German representation, or not at all. Separating from this nation, paying as few taxes as possible, withholding highly valuable labor from the foreigners, and creating a healthy ethnic enclave with German teachers, doctors, and everything else, could arguably be a more fruitful path than dressing in the costumes of the 1930's.
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