The American Nazi Bund and the communist Jews of post WWI Germany

The American Nazi Bund, more accurately known as the German American Bund (Amerikadeutscher Volksbund AV), emerged from an earlier organization called the "Friends of the New Germany"(FONG, FDND in German), was a pro-Nazi organization active in the United States from 1936 to 1941.  

The German American Bund aimed to promote German culture and Nazi ideology among German Americans. 

They held rallies, often adorned with Nazi symbols (like swastikas) and American flags, and featured Nazi salutes alongside the U.S. flag salute.

They vigorously promoted antisemitism, claiming Jews were enemies of both the U.S. and Germany, and spread conspiracy theories like "Judeo-Bolshevism." Additionally, the Jews were blamed for the defeat of Germany in the "Stab in the back" accusation and for the spread of communism.

They promoted false ideas and spreading the lie that Jews controlled politics, the economies, the media and other areas of society. 

• The Bund published its own newspaper, the "Deutscher Weckruf und Beobachter" (German Call and Observer), and circulated other propaganda materials.
• They established recreational camps across the U.S. (including in New York, New Jersey, Wisconsin, and California) and created an American version of the Hitler Youth to indoctrinate children in German language, history, and Nazi philosophy.
• The organization had a uniformed, paramilitary wing called the Ordnungsdienst (OD), modeled after the Nazi Party's SA, which provided security at their events.

The Bund sought to create a community that embraced Nazi principles and to influence American public opinion in support of Nazi Germany.

They insisted they were a patriotic American organization, claiming there was no contradiction between American patriotism and support for Nazism. Their vision for the U.S. included establishing white Christian supremacy, expelling Jews from labor and government, and isolating the U.S. from international conflicts.

While their leader Fritz Julius Kuhn, a naturalized American citizen born in Germany, claimed over 20,000 members. Historically documented evidence revealed that their actual membership peaked at around 6,000 to 10,000.

Despite its public presence and alarming activities, the Bund ultimately had a negligible impact within the broader German-American community, with the vast majority not supporting it. Even the German government disavowed the organization and restricted its activities in 1938 due to its ineffectiveness.

In the end the Bund faced increasing scrutiny from the U.S. government, including investigations by the FBI and the House Committee on Un-American Activities (Dies Committee).

Additionally, their leader Fritz Kuhn was jailed in 1939 for embezzling Bund funds, which significantly weakened the organization.

After the disasterous attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7th 1941, and the declaration of war by Japan's Axis Ally Nazi Germany. The Bund rapidly declined and was officially banned. Many of its leaders were subsequently tried for sedition.