What if Hitler had taken over America?
Dystopian stories such as Man in the High Castle, Fatherland and Plot against America glamorously vilify a victorious Third Reich. If America had been absorbed into the real rising Nazi empire, there is little doubt that Hitler would have accomplished his Final Solution and would have became supreme emperor of the world. In fact, It almost happened.
During the Great Depression, Hitler recognized that the entire world was ripe for a change. Democracy was not putting food on the table. His central racial program required Lebensraum or living space in order for the Aryan race to survive (just like animals and plants). He planned to take Russia and Eastern Europe. This involved not only capturing land but also exterminating inferior races and guaranteeing the rise of the German master race. And his plan went further. With his mantra “German blood above all”, Germans abroad would shape their lives according to Nazi principles and subsume the host country—presumably including the United States.
During the 1930s, Hitler nurtured a shadow party in the US. He exploited an unemployed country robbed of dignity who was still fresh from the devastating Great War. America acquiesced to his promises, dismissed his crimes and underestimated Hitler’s convictions. Was his strategy stealth by design or were Americans swatting away the irritating truth? Even after 1938 Kristallnacht, the barbaric destruction, humiliation and imprisonment of Jewish society in Germany, why didn’t America awaken? A threat that would lead to an extermination ploy against an entire culture. At home, why did citizens allow evil to cultivate in their backyards? And most profoundly, why have few heard about this Hitler satellite and the ominous threat against America? To answer these questions, we must understand the context of the time as well as the function of the pawns—Hitler’s Final Solution and where America fit into Hitler’s juggernaut.
After some missteps in the early thirties, Hitler tapped Fritz Kuhn as the American Fuhrer of the German American Bund. This Nazi party managed the “colony” of America. A charismatic Kuhn wrapped Nazi ideals up in American patriotism and promised a true, great America, the one the founding fathers had promised.
Combined with the new medium of radio, Kuhn powered Hitler’s propaganda machine to orchestrate a single message to the masses, garner subgroups under the Bund banner and generate momentum.
Kuhn asserted Hitler's rule of Führerprinzip (leader principle) that demanded absolute obedience of subordinates.He divided the US into three sections called Gaue with leaders reporting up his pyramid structure. He also trained a paramilitary force modeled after the SS called the Ordnungs -Dienst. Soldiers outfitted in smuggled Nazi uniforms marched through towns across America with their arms in the air professing the fight for a racially pure America. The goal was to gain a foothold, gather intelligence and disarm Americans into accepting a new culture. Whether people supported the Bund or not, first amendment rights protected the rising influence. In fact the government’s hands were so tied they enlisted the mafia to provide an underground resistance group—a group of Jewish boxers called the Newark Minutemen (see Newarkminutemen.com)— to combat the threat.
As a business leader, Kuhn turned his party into a corporation made up of six revenue generating companies which included membership, publishing and boycotting subsidiaries as well as a real estate arm. The events and activities generated millions.
In his early reign , Kuhn bought 25 pieces of
“German soil in America” and modeled them after Hitlers Nazi youth camps. American and Swastika flags flew side by side waving on the slogan “obligated to America, tied to Germany.” Like Hitler, Kuhn believed the youth was the future carriers of German racial ideals in America. Children dressed in Nazi-style uniforms, practiced paramilitary maneuvers, and sang "Deutsch land, über Alles." Physical and mental abuse toughened up the young troops. In later FBI reports, it was also revealed that the camps were used to engage youth to proliferate the Aryan population through sexual relations. In direct conflict with American citizenship, when German-American boys of the Bund turned 18, they were forced to conscript with the German military under the blood brotherhood law of Germans. In other words, whether you were inside or outside German borders, you were German.
In every camp, Mein Kampf and Junges Volk magazines stressed the German contribution to America’s history, vaunted German heroes, praised the Aryan race, degraded and dehumanized the Jews, Catholics and Blacks as lesser human types, maintained that public school teachers were communists, and lauded the new German world view.
The German American Bund emboldened the Reich with a pipeline for funding war and sabotaging the US. The Reich architected a money scheme where German-Americans could buy a special high interest Reich mark through major banks. This money was backed by the lootings from fleeing Jews and other condemned citizens of Germany.
With 20/20 hindsight, we now clearly see the intentions for the piece of property that Hitler called his American colony, and the design it played in realizing his Final Solution.
During the Great Depression, Hitler recognized that the entire world was ripe for a change. Democracy was not putting food on the table. His central racial program required Lebensraum or living space in order for the Aryan race to survive (just like animals and plants). He planned to take Russia and Eastern Europe. This involved not only capturing land but also exterminating inferior races and guaranteeing the rise of the German master race. And his plan went further. With his mantra “German blood above all”, Germans abroad would shape their lives according to Nazi principles and subsume the host country—presumably including the United States.
During the 1930s, Hitler nurtured a shadow party in the US. He exploited an unemployed country robbed of dignity who was still fresh from the devastating Great War. America acquiesced to his promises, dismissed his crimes and underestimated Hitler’s convictions. Was his strategy stealth by design or were Americans swatting away the irritating truth? Even after 1938 Kristallnacht, the barbaric destruction, humiliation and imprisonment of Jewish society in Germany, why didn’t America awaken? A threat that would lead to an extermination ploy against an entire culture. At home, why did citizens allow evil to cultivate in their backyards? And most profoundly, why have few heard about this Hitler satellite and the ominous threat against America? To answer these questions, we must understand the context of the time as well as the function of the pawns—Hitler’s Final Solution and where America fit into Hitler’s juggernaut.
After some missteps in the early thirties, Hitler tapped Fritz Kuhn as the American Fuhrer of the German American Bund. This Nazi party managed the “colony” of America. A charismatic Kuhn wrapped Nazi ideals up in American patriotism and promised a true, great America, the one the founding fathers had promised.
Combined with the new medium of radio, Kuhn powered Hitler’s propaganda machine to orchestrate a single message to the masses, garner subgroups under the Bund banner and generate momentum.
Kuhn asserted Hitler's rule of Führerprinzip (leader principle) that demanded absolute obedience of subordinates.He divided the US into three sections called Gaue with leaders reporting up his pyramid structure. He also trained a paramilitary force modeled after the SS called the Ordnungs -Dienst. Soldiers outfitted in smuggled Nazi uniforms marched through towns across America with their arms in the air professing the fight for a racially pure America. The goal was to gain a foothold, gather intelligence and disarm Americans into accepting a new culture. Whether people supported the Bund or not, first amendment rights protected the rising influence. In fact the government’s hands were so tied they enlisted the mafia to provide an underground resistance group—a group of Jewish boxers called the Newark Minutemen (see Newarkminutemen.com)— to combat the threat.
As a business leader, Kuhn turned his party into a corporation made up of six revenue generating companies which included membership, publishing and boycotting subsidiaries as well as a real estate arm. The events and activities generated millions.
In his early reign , Kuhn bought 25 pieces of
“German soil in America” and modeled them after Hitlers Nazi youth camps. American and Swastika flags flew side by side waving on the slogan “obligated to America, tied to Germany.” Like Hitler, Kuhn believed the youth was the future carriers of German racial ideals in America. Children dressed in Nazi-style uniforms, practiced paramilitary maneuvers, and sang "Deutsch land, über Alles." Physical and mental abuse toughened up the young troops. In later FBI reports, it was also revealed that the camps were used to engage youth to proliferate the Aryan population through sexual relations. In direct conflict with American citizenship, when German-American boys of the Bund turned 18, they were forced to conscript with the German military under the blood brotherhood law of Germans. In other words, whether you were inside or outside German borders, you were German.
In every camp, Mein Kampf and Junges Volk magazines stressed the German contribution to America’s history, vaunted German heroes, praised the Aryan race, degraded and dehumanized the Jews, Catholics and Blacks as lesser human types, maintained that public school teachers were communists, and lauded the new German world view.
The German American Bund emboldened the Reich with a pipeline for funding war and sabotaging the US. The Reich architected a money scheme where German-Americans could buy a special high interest Reich mark through major banks. This money was backed by the lootings from fleeing Jews and other condemned citizens of Germany.
With 20/20 hindsight, we now clearly see the intentions for the piece of property that Hitler called his American colony, and the design it played in realizing his Final Solution.
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