The article posted on the right was penned by the man who would shortly be America’s premiere spy-master: William “Wild Bill” Donovan. In this report he examined the Trojan horse tactics of the German “Foreign Organization”:
“Children of Germans naturalized half a century ago are still counted German by Berlin and every effort is made to convince them of the fact… It is safe to say that a very fair proportion of the non-refugee Germans who have become American since Hitler came to power did so with the secret intention of turning free and democratic America into ‘their‘ – that is, Hitler’s – America.”
In 1942 eight Nazis were dropped off by U-boats onto American shores – two of them had been active in the German-American Bund; you can read about them here
Click here to read more about the German-American Bund…
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