Part One: The Birth of American Fascism
Behind the Bastards
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The Nazi Rhetoric in the Militia
In 1938, Pelley published a manual, a million silver shirts by 1939. He announced that each state needed to sign up 100 new fascists every day. The silver shirts launched a major recruitment drive,. exnang the anti-Semitism and really hampering on communism. In Washington state fascists wrote that year: "We are not Jew haters ... we are only against their system"
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