How Hitler’s plan to take over LA was thwarted by a Jewish lawyer

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New York Post
Larry Getlen
Oct. 21, 2017

In September 1933, a small group of Nazis met in Los Angeles to discuss a secret plan: the takeover of America’s West Coast.

It was orchestrated by Dietrich Gefken, who had been an organizer for Adolf Hitler’s paramilitary Brownshirts back in Germany and a veteran of the 1923 putsch against the Bavarian government that had landed the politician in jail. Gefken had killed Jews in cold blood and “had not hesitated to throw acid in the faces of his enemies,” according to the book “Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America,” by Steven J. Ross (Bloomsbury), out Tuesday.

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[Free Vulcan]

Let us not forget that at the time National Socialism was considered left wing and preferred to communism by the elite and so-called intelligentsia. They no doubt had lots of sympathizers here. I would imagine that some trying to thwart them were commies themselves.

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The American Nazi party was basically a Northern version of the KKK.

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Let us not forget that at the time National Socialism was considered left wing and preferred to communism by the elite and so-called intelligentsia. They no doubt had lots of sympathizers here. I would imagine that some trying to thwart them were commies themselves.

Bund activity gained a good following: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_American_Bund. But evaporated with our entry into the war.


The Samuel Dickstein mentioned was apparently a Soviet agent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Dickstein_(congressman)

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Let us not forget that at the time National Socialism was considered left wing and preferred to communism by the elite and so-called intelligentsia. They no doubt had lots of sympathizers here. I would imagine that some trying to thwart them were commies themselves.

Hollywood bent over backwards to appease the Nazis because they didn't want to lose access to the German market.

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The American Nazi party was basically a Northern version of the KKK.

The population of the North was so much greater than the South that the KKK had a good number of members there. But I don't think those groups were very serious.

The Bund was supposed to be for people of German descent.

[truth_seeker]

The contemporary figure who Hitler admired the most, was Mussolini.

Before Mussolini became fascist, he was socialist.

[dfwgator]

The contemporary figure who Hitler admired the most, was Mussolini.

 

He also admired Stalin, although they became enemies.