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American Nazi Bund leader FRITZ KUHN'S US citizenship was revoked in 1943 after conviction for embezzling Bund funds and in 1945 he was deported to Germany where he was born in 1896. Kuhn's wiki bio bio includes his move to Mexico late 1920s, then the US in 1928; he became a naturalized American citizen in 1934.
Kuhn held fiercely anti-Semitic, anti Bolshevik and pro German views. He was detested by Jews in the US and also many American Germans for his extremist views. In 1951, Kuhn died in Munich in relative obscurity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Julius_Kuhn
Wiki: February 20, 1939, Kuhn held the largest and most publicized rally in the Bund's history at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Some 20,000 people attended and heard Kuhn mock President Roosevelt as "Frank D. Rosenfeld," calling his New Deal the "Jew Deal" and denouncing what he called Bolshevik-Jewish American leadership.
Kuhn also stated: "The Bund is fighting shoulder to shoulder with patriotic Americans to protect America from a race that is not the American race, that is not even a white race...The Jews are enemies of the United States."[citation needed] Most shocking was the outbreak of violence between Bund storm troopers and thousands of angry protesters in the streets. During Kuhn's speech, a Jewish protester, Isadore Greenbaum, rushed the stage and had to be rescued by police after he was beaten & stripped by storm troopers. More.
Fritz Kuhn 1938.
1949, Fritz Kuhn's appeal to regain US citizenship.
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- 1936, London, Blackshirts March. Sir Oswald Moseley's Nazis.
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/the-british-nazis-sir-oswald-mosley-s-views-were-and-are-not-uncommon-9162679.html
- Right march: Sir Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists recruited from the working classes.
March 1, 2014, "The British Nazis: Sir Oswald Mosley’s views were - and are not - uncommon. The revelation last week that MI5 had infiltrated a network of homegrown Nazis during the war is just the latest chapter in a long, dishonourable story," The Independent. *Excerpts:
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/the-british-nazis-sir-oswald-mosley-s-views-were-and-are-not-uncommon-9162679.html
On the surface, nothing could be more outlandish than last week’s disclosure, contained in a series of files released by the National Archive, that MI5 had assembled and was secretly controlling a vast network of Nazi sympathisers throughout the Second World War. As for the supporting detail – the membership badges to be worn in the event of evacuation so the wearers could be quickly rounded up, the replica Iron Crosses used to reward adherents for their loyalty – this might seem to have been robbed wholesale from CJ Sansom’s alternative history novel Dominion. Until, that is, you pause to examine the substantial flock of pro-Nazis long known to have been at work in public life during the period 1939-45 and the exploits that are already in the public domain.
Consider, for example, the activities of Cpt Archibald Maule Ramsay, grand vizier of the notorious “Right Club”, Great War veteran, Conservative MP for Peebles and South Midlothian, interned in May 1940 as a threat to national security, but allowed, by dint of his office, to keep on submitting parliamentary questions about the number of Jewish personnel in the armed forces killed serving at the front. Or, from the council chambers of mid-century local government, Philip Larkin’s father Sydney, treasurer of the city of Coventry who corresponded with Hjalmar Schacht, Hitler’s minister of economics from 1934 to 1937, attended several Nuremberg rallies, kept a statuette of the Fuhrer on his desk and, when Coventry was bombed by the Luftwaffe, congratulated himself on having had the foresight to lay in a thousand cardboard coffins.
However respectably concealed, or shy of drawing attention to itself, what might be called the right-wing fanatic strain in British politics never really goes away. The history of the past century or so is, consequently, full of tense little moments in which it raises its head above the parapet. One came in the post-Suez era of the late 1950s when the League of Empire Loyalists began their campaign against Harold Macmillan’s “winds of change” speech and the gradual transfer of imperial power in Africa and the Far East. Another can be detected in the late 1960s and mid-1970s plots against the Labour government of Harold Wilson. And for current manifestations, one need look no further than the wilder fringes of some of the 21st-century English nationalist movements.
Naturally, home-grown fascism - to give it its proper name - transcends social class. There is the working-class hooligan strain exploited by Sir Oswald Mosley and picked up again by John Tyndall’s National Front in the 1970s, which made a point of recruiting on the football terraces. But the distinguishing mark of extreme right-wingery in this country has nearly always been its comparatively genteel tinge.
But wherever British fascism sought its authentication - from King Arthur and the vision of Nuremberg to the extremer margins of inter-war Catholicism- it was nearly always garnished by good old- fashioned anti-Semitism.
Had British fascism ever amounted to anything, someone once speculated, it would have been the fascism not of lofted flags and marching men, but of the privet hedge and the pointed remark in the Mayfair drawing room. It would be absurdly optimistic to assume the key to this grim little compartment of our national life will never twitch in its lock again.
Charles Lindbergh addressing a rally of the America First Committee in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1941. Over 4,000 people were in attendance.
