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An American Nazi Party propaganda newsletter printed in the United States, April 10, 1941. This issue features an article by Nazi Germany’s minister of foreign affairs, Joachim von Ribbentrop, who would be hanged at Nuremburg after the war.

In May of 1945, the SS was holding more than 7,000 prisoners from Neuengamme, Germany, on two ships: a Kraft durch Freude luxury cruise ship (designed to hold just 800 or so passengers) called the Cap Arcona and a cargo ship called the Thielbeck. With no food or water on board (except, presumably, for the guards and crew), there was little chance for survival. Tragically, on May 3, British troops, assuming the Cap Arcona and the Thielbeck carried German troops, bombed both ships. Both capsized, killing all but about 7,000 of the prisoners aboard.

[Same description/data as "Facts in Review"]

[Same description/data as "Junior Bund, 1939]

Baltimore, 1939, a 14-year-old Jewish boy, Melvin Bridge, had an H (for “Hebrew”) carved into his neck by a group of students who had apparently created a “Junior Bund” patterned after Fritz Kuhn’s pro-Nazi group.

The German Bund was a pro-Nazi, anti-Jewish organization of Germans in the United States. Seen here is their leader, Fritz Kuhn, speaking in Milford, New Jersey. It is estimated that the Bund had 25,000 members, and they were active in spreading anti-Jewish propaganda through rallies, publications, and Hitler Youth-style camps for children, one of which, Camp Siegfried, was on Long Island.

The German Bund was a pro-Nazi, anti-Jewish organization of Germans in the United States. Seen here is their leader, Fritz Kuhn, speaking in Milford, New Jersey. It is estimated that the Bund had 25,000 members, and they were active in spreading anti-Jewish propaganda through rallies, publications, and Hitler Youth-style camps for children, one of which, Camp Siegfried, was on Long Island.

Anti-Jewish industry titan Henry Ford wrote two volumes of anti-Jewish essays, The International Jew: The World’s Foremost Problem and Jewish Activities in the United States, both also published by The Dearborn Independent. Ford’s essays were based in part on a fictional series called The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, published in Russia in 1903 and still used by radical Islamic groups today. The essays blame Jews for all that is wrong in society and accuse them of a conspiracy to take over the world. The Protocols were a cornerstone of the Nazis’ propaganda initiatives in the ’20s and ’30s — the party published more than twenty editions of the book, and many schools used it to indoctrinate students, as well.

Titan of industry Henry Ford was loudly anti-Jewish, as evidenced by his 1926 editorial in The Dearborn Independent, “What About the Jewish Question?”

Titan of industry Henry Ford was loudly anti-Jewish, as evidenced by his 1926 editorial in The Dearborn Independent, “What About the Jewish Question?”

This weekly tabloid founded in Detroit by anti-Jewish isolationist Father Charles Coughlin in 1936, churned out primarily anti-Jewish propaganda and hatred.

Charles Coughlin was a Catholic priest based in a suburb of Detroit. He was also vocally anti-Roosevelt (joining other leaders who nicknamed him “President Rosenfeld”), isolationist, and anti-Jewish. "Am I an Anti-Semite" is a collection of nine anti-Jewish addresses Coughlin had broadcast on his radio show between November 1938 and January 1939.