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Part Two: The Birth of American Fascism

Behind the Bastards

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The German-American Boone

The German-American Boone continued in Kuhn's absence, but the organization itself declined sharply after this point. 1939 was also the year Pelly and his silver shirts would be brought to heel. In 1940, J. Edgar Hoover led an FBI raid that arrested 18 members of the Brooklyn chapter of the Christian front. The group wanted to eradicate all Jews in the United States.

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