1933 American Pro-Nazi Friends of New Germany handout

This is a authentic handout from the Friends of New Germany. This was an organization founded in 1933 in support of the Nazi party in the United States. In May 1933, the Nazi Deputy Führer, Rudolf Hess sanctioned a German citizen residing in the United States, Heinz Spanknobel, to outline a Nazi American group. The product was the formation of the Friends of New Germany. Help was given to its development by the German consul in the City of New York. Nazis, out of Germany, made substantial efforts to set up an American complement organization. Recruiting began as early as 1924. Yet the first considerably large organized assembly was this unit, Friends of New Germany, which was created in July 1933. Many German-Americans accepted their Americanism and discarded Germany overall. Another portion accepted Germany as their mother country, the area where their parents were from, but did not forgive the actions of the Nazi government. There were also some German-Americans that arrogantly embraced Nazi principles and vowed their allegiance to them. This group would come to be known as the Bund (which means federation). It was the American counterpart of the Nazi party, and possessed over 10,000 members .The Bund began as a group known as “The Friends of the New Germany,” and was endorsed by the Nazi party in Germany and even given funding by them. As reports of Nazi slaughters began to come back to the U.S., any false impression of the Bund as a benevolent social organization faded away. Jewish crowds often protested with the Bund calling local police, begging them to stop a Jewish Veterans group from throwing rocks at them.