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Nazi Supporters in the Uited States, 1930s.

  1. Approximately 20,000 members of the Friends of the New Germany gather together at Madison Square Garden on May 17, 1934. 
  2. German-American Bund leaders (including Fritz Kuhn, front of stage) salute passing members during a march at Camp Siegfried on August 29, 1937. 
  3. German-American Bund members parade in New York City. Date unspecified  
  4. American Nazi sympathizers rally at the steps of the Chicago Field Museum in May 1931.
  5. A bumper sticker saluting Adolf Hitler and indicating membership in the German-American Bund in Omaha Nebraska, November 1938.
  6. Supporters give the Nazi salute at Camp Siegfried on August 29, 1937.
  7. Members of the Friends of the New Germany, New York’s Madison Square Garden on May 18, 1934.
  8. Hundreds of German-American Bund supporters salute the marchers at the group’s Camp Siegfried in Yaphank, New York on August 29, 1937.

Nazi groups existed in the United States in the 1930s. 

These images are from just one such group, the German American Bund (1934-1941) which was preceeded by the 

Friends of New Germany, 1933- 1934, and the Free Society of Teutonia 1924-1932. 

The German American Bund main goal was to promote a favorable view of Nazi Germany. The Bund had 70 chapters and ran about 25 ‘summer camps’. Despite only accepting members of German origin the group had 25,000 members, 8,000 of them in its militarized “Storm Trooper” wing.

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