Hitler's American Friends

The Third Reich's Supporters in the United States

De: Bradley W. Hart

Narrado por: Chris Ciulla

Duración: 11 h y 15 m

Resumen del Editor

Hitler's American Friends, by Bradley W. Hart, is an audiobook examining the strange terrain of Nazi sympathizers, nonintervention campaigners, and other voices in America who advocated on behalf of Nazi Germany in the years before World War II.

Americans who remember World War II reminisce about how it brought the country together. The less-popular truth behind this warm nostalgia: Until the attack on Pearl Harbor, America was deeply, dangerously divided.

Bradley W. Hart's Hitler's American Friends exposes the homegrown antagonists who sought to protect and promote Hitler, leave Europeans (and especially European Jews) to fend for themselves, and elevate the Nazi regime.

Some of these friends were Americans of German heritage who joined the Bund, whose leadership dreamed of installing a stateside Führer. Some were as bizarre and hair-raising as the Silver Shirt Legion, run by an eccentric who claimed Hitler fulfilled a religious prophesy. Some were Midwestern Catholics like Father Charles Coughlin, an early right-wing radio star who broadcast anti-Semitic tirades. They were even members of Congress who used their franking privilege - sending mail at cost to American taxpayers - to distribute German propaganda. And celebrity pilot Charles Lindbergh ended up speaking for them all at the America First Committee.

We try to tell ourselves it couldn't happen here, but Americans are not immune to the lure of fascism. Hitler's American Friends is a powerful look at how the forces of evil manipulate ordinary people, how we stepped back from the ledge, and the disturbing ease with which we could return to it.

©2018 Bradley W. Hart (P)2018 Macmillan Audio

Riveting

Learned so much about the US's fascination with fascism. Turns out we cycle through the crazy and here's hoping that sanity prevails every time.

I bet the book was better…

A solid in-depth history about something those of us who were born in the Forties and after never learned in our classes - but should have. The parallels in Hitler’s American Friends to today, beg for a sequel: Putin’s American Friends. We can but hope that even though the public is ignorant of the book’s history, our national security services and the FBI are well aware of it and are making sure it doesn’t happen again.
I will read the book - so I can stop and re-read things I want to commit to memory, and to assign a narrator’s voice - in my head- that doesn’t go so fast, or feign a German accent.

Compelling historical research

Little known history of Nazi influence in the US, beginning in the pre-WWII years and progressing until the 1960’s, when most of the conspirators died. Highly recommended.

Hitler's American Friends by Bradley W. Hart

I knew some of the stories but wow. To know how many would have been willing to sell out or just give this country over to pure evil then. To see / hear the evil has grown many heads today tells of evil personified. Thank-you sir for the history lesson. We must learn!

Overall great new look at Nazi threat to America

That book is full of information on the subject. Note for voice actor do your homework, it’s not that hard to learn to pronounce names and place names.

I didn't know about US Hitlers friends

Fascinating history of the far right in America before and during WW 2. I wasn't aware of a lot of it. It has evhos today with “America First” and other such phrases. It also is a clear earning from the past to us today with Trump republican fascist party. I highly recommend it.

A MUST READ!

With so little covered on the subject of Nazis and sympathizers within America during the run up to the war, this book is so enlightening. This book isn't boring. A complete comprehensive covering of incidents and the different facets where sympathies were building up.

Very informative

It gave me hope that we defeated crazy fascism before. Not perfectly and with lots of bumps and stumbles but we did it and can do it again hopefully

Don’t do accents.

1. Mr. Ciulla’s poor, half hearted attempts at foreign accents while reading direct quotes was an unnecessary distraction. 2. Saying, “Quote…unquote.” would have been of more help for all direct quotes, accented or not.

What you did not know

Detailed and excellent coverage of the many aspects of this plot and story. Hart outlines the complex in overlapping plots against the United States in the 30s and early 40s and brings it together at the end. Very interesting.