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Organized in 1932 as part of the international Friends of the New Germany, the German-American Bund sought to educate Germans living in the United States about the Nazi ideology then gaining favor in the fatherland. Fritz Kuhn was the American leader of the Bund. From 1936 to 1939 many Americans were horrified by the racist and anti-Semitic views of the Bund, which at its peak may have had as many as twenty-five thousand members. In 1939 Kuhn was convicted of embezzling Bund funds; his imprisonment, along with rising anti-Nazi sentiment in the United States, led to the demise of the organization.
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