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Sunglasses Make Their Mark in the Fashion World (Click Magazine, 1939)
1930s Fashion, 1939, Click Magazine, Recent Articles

Sunglasses Make Their Mark in the Fashion World (Click Magazine, 1939)

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Although sunglasses had slowly inched their way forward in popularity since the late Twenties, the attached article declared that by 1939 sunglasses were officially recognized as a full-fledged fashion accessory when the Hollywood stars Joan Bennet and Hedy Lamar began to sport them around town.

Like T-shirts and khaki pants, it would be W.W. II that would provide sunglasses with a guaranteed spot on fashion stage for the next sixty-five years.


Click here to read a 1961 article about Jacqueline Kennedy’s influence on American fashion.

Edward James Smythe American Fascist 1943 | Edward James Smythe Interview 1943
1940, American Fascism, PM Tabloid, Recent Articles

The Bund-Klan Connection (PM Tabloid, 1943)

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Edward James Smythe, a whisky-guzzling old reprobate whose great sorrow is that Hitler is too merciful toward the Jews, has decided to tell all – if anybody will listen. Smythe called PM‘s city desk the other day and, after establishing his identity as the well-known American-bred tinhorn Fascist, now under indictment with 27 others on sedition charges, said:

‘Remember that joint meeting of the Klan and the Bund at Camp Nordland over in Jersey? Well I organized that…’

Leaders of the German-American Nazi Bund Arrested 1940
1940, American Fascism, PM Tabloid

New Jersey Law Nabs Top Bundists (PM Tabloid, 1940)

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In 1937 the elders of New Jersey passed a law that was tailor-made for the thugs of Camp Nordland. Knowing well who the Bundists were, the law clearly condemned

‘the unlawful assembly of three or more persons’ and ‘and the uttering of speeches, the sale of literature, display of emblems and uniforms which counseled… hatred, violence or hostility against groups of persons… by reason of race, color, religion or manner of worship.’


In 1940 the law netted a harvest of the three highest Bund leaders.

German-Americans and the Nazis | German-American Culture and 1930s Germany | German-Americans and Hitler
1941, American Fascism, Coronet Magazine

Adolf Hitler and the German-Americans (Coronet Magazine, 1941)

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This is a fascinating article not simply for what you’ll learn about Hitler, but for what you’ll additionally learn about the manner in which many Germans tended to view that queerest of hybrids, the German-Americans.


This article was written by Rene Kraus, who had been a German diplomat during the Wiemar Republic and a refugee under Hitler.


Click here to read about the German-Americans who called themselves Nazis.


Click here and you will learn that Kaiser Wilhelm was also bugged by German-Americans.

Arthur Derounian Article About American German Bund | 1930s American Fascist Groups | Monitoring German Bund in America
1944, American Fascism, Coronet Magazine

American Fascists Exposed (Coronet Magazine, 1944)

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This is a wonderful read. Writing under the name John Ray Carlson, the journalist Arthur Derounian (1909 – 1991) went under cover into the seedy world of American fascist organizations and discovered that they all spoke with each other. Having impressed the German Bundists, he moved quickly up the ranks of American fascism and was soon given the task of uniting every antisemitic, anti-democratic, pro-fascist clique in the country. Here is a list of some of the groups he was in contact with during his four years in the underground: America First, the American Vigilant Intelligence Federation, American Nationalist Party, Chicago Patriot’s Bureau, New England Christian Front, National Workers League, Detroit Mothers, American Mothers, Yankee Freeman and Mothers of the United States of America. He finally found himself in the company of Lawrence Dennis, a creepy book-worm who was known in those low circles as the dean of American fascism.

O.S.S. Agents Executed by General Anton Dostler (Yank Magazine, 1945)
1945, Spying, Yank Magazine

O.S.S. Agents Executed by General Anton Dostler (Yank Magazine, 1945)

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On the evening of March 26, 1944, fifteen O.S.S. agents were executed following a failed raid on Italian soil to blow-up an Axis railroad tunnel. The sabotage mission was in support of the allied attack taking place further south at Monte Cassino (Battle of Monte Cassino, January 17, 1944 – May 19, 1944) and had the tunnel been successfully blown, supplies to the defending Germans would have been cut off.


This YANK article reported on the first war crime trial of the post World War Two era: the trial of German General Anton Dostler (1891 – 1945), who gave the order to execute the O.S.S. prisoners. In his defense, General Dostler insisted that he was acting under the orders of General Gustav von Zangen, who denied the claim.

WW2 OSS Operations | Wartime Intelligence Stories | OSS Magazine Article | The Secret Story of OSS by Corey Ford and Alastair MacBain Collier s Magazine article October 6 1945
1945, Collier's Magazine, Spying

The O.S.S. (Collier’s Magazine, 1945)

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This was more than likely the very first mainstream magazine article to address the vital contributions that the Office of Strategic Service made in beating the Axis powers. It appeared on the newsstands just about six weeks after the end of the Second World War and lists various key operations and triumphs that had heretofore been secret.


In 1940 OSS chief Donovan wrote an article about the German-American Bund, Click here to read it.

Swimwear (Pathfinder Magazine, 1947)
1940s Fashion, 1947, Pathfinder Magazine, Recent Articles

Swimwear (Pathfinder Magazine, 1947)

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The only big fashion innovation popular enough to share the 1947 headlines with Dior’s New Look involved the evolution in women’s swimwear; most notably the Bikini. The attached single page article pertains to all the new fabrics being deployed in ladies beachwear and all their assorted coverups:

Sand-and-sun fashions for this summer are perter and briefer than ever before. Although the typical bathing suit covers just about 2.5 square feet of a swimmer’s anatomy, a costume-look for the beach is achieved with a companion cape, skirt of short coat… Favored fabrics are those made to ride the waves. Knitted wool shows up in both classic and unusual designs. Colors are softer and muted. Black and blue appear most often, with cider, gray and smudge the ‘high-style’ shades.

•Click here to learn about women’s fashions from the Summer of 1934•

College Fashion (Look Magazine, 1941)
1940s Fashion, 1941, Look Magazine

College Fashion (Look Magazine, 1941)

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Dusty, Peggy and Jean were just three of the co-eds that made up the six percent of American women who attended college in 1941 – and that’s all that was required of them in order for the trio to sample fashion’s latest wares and sound-off in the attached Fall fashion review. Go figure.

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