Free Society of Teutonia
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The Free Society of Teutonia was a German American
organisation that was associated with a strong support for Nazism
.
The FST was formed in 1924 by four German immigrants, including Nazi Party members Fritz and Peter Gissibl, based in Chicago. Initially functioning as a club, the FST soon raised a group of militants based on the SA
and, with membership increasing, became leading critics of Jews, Communism
and the Treaty of Versailles
.
The group gained a strong, if fairly small following, and spawned the Friends of the Hitler Movement, a group for those without German connections who nonetheless sympathised with the Nazis. After working closely with the Friends of New Germany
the Free Society was ultimately absorbed into the German American Bund in 1936.
German American
German Americans are citizens of the United States of German ancestry and comprise about 51 million people, or 17% of the U.S. population, the country's largest self-reported ancestral group...
organisation that was associated with a strong support for Nazism
Nazism
Nazism, the common short form name of National Socialism was the ideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany...
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The FST was formed in 1924 by four German immigrants, including Nazi Party members Fritz and Peter Gissibl, based in Chicago. Initially functioning as a club, the FST soon raised a group of militants based on the SA
Sturmabteilung
The Sturmabteilung functioned as a paramilitary organization of the National Socialist German Workers' Party . It played a key role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power in the 1920s and 1930s...
and, with membership increasing, became leading critics of Jews, Communism
Communism
Communism is a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of a classless, moneyless, revolutionary and stateless socialist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production...
and the Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The other Central Powers on the German side of...
.
The group gained a strong, if fairly small following, and spawned the Friends of the Hitler Movement, a group for those without German connections who nonetheless sympathised with the Nazis. After working closely with the Friends of New Germany
Friends of New Germany
Friends of New Germany was an organization founded in 1933 in support of the Nazi party in the United States.In May 1933, the Nazi Deputy Führer, Rudolf Hess, authorized a German citizen living in the United States, Heinz Spanknobel, to form a Nazi American organization. The result was the creation...
the Free Society was ultimately absorbed into the German American Bund in 1936.
See also
- German American Bund
- Silver Legion of AmericaSilver Legion of AmericaThe Silver Legion of America, commonly known as the Silver Shirts, was an American fascist organization founded by William Dudley Pelley on January 30, 1933, coincidentally, the same day Adolf Hitler, whom Pelley admired, seized power in Germany....
- Neo-Nazi groups of the United States