Before the U.S. entered World War II, the German-American Bund movement tried to mobilize sympathy for Nazi Germany. It was active in many places with German immigrant populations, including Milwaukee.
Chicago author Arnie Bernstein recently published a book about this little remembered phenomenon, “Swastika Nation: Fritz Kuhn and the Rise and Fall of the German-American Bund” (St. Martin’s Press.)
He will come to Milwaukee to speak about the book on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 7 p.m., at the Boswell Book Company, 2559 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee. Admission is free.
This event is co-sponsored by the Sam and Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center and the Nathan and Esther Pelz Holocaust Education Resource Center of the Coalition for Jewish Learning, the education program of the Milwaukee Jewish Federation.
For more information, contact the bookstore, 414-332-1181 or info@boswellbooks.com.
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