100: Fascist USA

On February 20th, 1939, twenty thousand American Nazis held a rally in Madison Square Garden, declaring George Washington as the “first fascist.” How did Nazi movements come to thrive in the United States, and what were the social and historical conditions that paved the way for their success?

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Sources and Further Reading

Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law: Link

Nazi action T4 euthanasia programme: historical research, individual life stories and the culture of remembrance: Link

The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism: Link

The Horrifying American Roots of Nazi Eugenics: Link

Legalizing Hate: The Significance of the Nuremburg Laws and the post-War Nuremburg Trials: Link

Henry Ford and "The International Jew": Link

Henry Ford and the Jews : The Mass Production of Hate: Link

Anti-Semitism and American History: Link

Cannistraro, Philip V. Blackshirts in Little Italy: Italian Americans and Fascism, 1921-1929. Vol. 17. Bordighera Incorporated, 1999.

Wolf, Cameron. "Fritz Kuhn's Nazi America: Kuhn's Growth and Destruction of the German American Bund in the 1930s." PhD diss., Department of History, University of Kansas, 2019.

Post-War Further Reading

Veil of Protection: Operation Paperclip and the Contrasting Fates of Wernher von Braun and Arthur Rudolph: Link

American Fuehrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party: Link

The dialectics of historical fantasy: The ideology of George Lincoln Rockwell: Link

Dr. Space: The Life of Wernher von Braun: Link

Becoming a Racist: Women in Contemporary Ku Klux Klan and Neo-Nazi Groups: Link

The Beast Reawakens: Fascism's Resurgence from Hitler's Spymasters to Today’s Neo-Nazi Groups and Right Wing Extremists: Link

Reichsrock: The International Web of White-Power and Neo-Nazi Hate Music: Link