America And The Nazis, Always Intertwined
Why The Neo-Nazis Are So Welcome Here
The origin of Nazis sounds very much like the founding of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). A bunch of Germans gathered in a beer hall lamented the fall of Germany during World War 1. They formed a social group called the German Workers Party to complain about their fates and blame others for Germany’s defeat. They promoted the “stab-in-the-back” conspiracy theory that Germany didn’t lose on the battlefield but that it was Jews and those who signed the Armistice of November 11, 1918, that caused Germany’s downfall.
The original members of the German Workers Party had their version of the “Lost Cause” adopted by the South after the Civil War in America. The KKK in America didn’t sprout wings until they got a charismatic leader, Nathan Bedford Forrest, that expanded the Klan to 40,000 in its early years. The German Workers Party got Adolf Hitler and changed their name to the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP), more commonly called the Nazi Party.
The Nazis weren’t content to keep their hatred of others in Germany. People of German ancestry worldwide were encouraged to praise “German values.” In America, the Amerikadeutscher Volksbund, better known as the German Bund, was formed in 1936. They considered themselves patriotic Americans of German stock. The Bund…
