Bill Chertok asked me if I remembered “The Kaiser” a guy from Coatesville who was openly pro-German even during WWII. I think I might have seen “The Kaiser” but was too little to remember him.

There were some “America First” Nazis in the Republican Party before & even months after Germany declared war on the United States. 

“At its height, the Bund had organized 20 youth training camps. Promoted as family-friendly summer camps, Camp Siegfried in Long Island, Camp Hindenberg in Wisconsin, and Deutschhorst Country Club in Pennsylvania were some of the camps devoted to promoting favorable views of Nazi Germany and spreading Nazi ideology in the United States. The camps’ popularity grew rapidly. The New Jersey division of the Bund opened its 100-acre Camp Norland at Sussex Hills in 1937 and the annual German Day festivities at Camp Siegfried in Long Island attracted 40,000 people in 1938.”

FROM:

The National WWII Museum New Orleans

American Nazism and Madison Square Garden

April 14, 2021

Here in Coatesville John Birch Society Chapter Leader Pat Sellers kept his admiration for Hitler almost hidden. 

In York County PA I met several “Hitler did bad things but he was good for Germany' people. 

Now some PA Republicans like Doug Mastriano openly support Nazis. 

Doug Mastriano, the Republican nominee for governor in Pennsylvania, is most famous for having participated in the January 6 insurrection, continuing to repeat Donald Trump’s election lies, and threatening to use his authority over that state’s election mechanics to instigate a constitutional crisis. But he also has maintained ties to an undisguised anti-Semite.

Mastriano has paid Gab, a white-nationalist site, for “consulting.” Gab’s founder and CEO, Andrew Torba, has responded to reporters who exposed his ties to Mastriano with a series of anti-Semitic diatribes.

Here (on Gab, via Media Matters) is one of Torba’s rants:

“We don’t want people who are atheists. We don’t want people who are Jewish. We don’t want people who are, you know, nonbelievers, agnostic, whatever. This is an explicitly Christian movement because this is an explicitly Christian country.”

FROM:

New York Magazine

Pennsylvania GOP Governor Candidate Doug Mastriano Refuses to Denounce Nazi Ally

An incredibly ominous sign in the GOP’s rightward lurc 

 July 28, 2022

Deposition Transcripts of January 6 TRAITORS Finally Released and OMG!:

 

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Nick Fuentes' success story. His parents told him get a job. He said let me try out my white nationalist/Nazi podcast from the basement. It worked. Now he’s a leader in the Republican Party hate machine & moving into real estate. 

Southern Poverty Law Center

Nick Fuentes Trades Parents’ Basement for Pricey Livestreaming Den

Hatewatch uncovered Fuentes’ deception by examining police records and archives of Fuentes’ livestreams, conducting interviews and making observations in Fuentes’ new neighborhood of Berwyn, in the inner-western part of Chicago’s suburbs.