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Viereck

[veer-ek]

noun

  1. Peter, 1916–2006, U.S. poet and historian.



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The Nazi propagandist George Sylvester Viereck, who agitated on behalf of Kaiser Wilhelm during World War I, had a publishing house called Flanders Hall that disseminated numerous isolationist works.

From Salon

It centers on a German American named George Sylvester Viereck, who was an agent for the Nazi government.

Viereck was the focus of a Justice Department investigation into Nazi influence in America in the 1930s.

One senator ran pro-German propaganda articles in magazines under his name that had actually been written by Viereck and delivered pro-German speeches on the floor of Congress written by officials of the Nazi government.

Viereck also provided moral and financial support to a range of virulently antisemitic and racist organizations across the United States, along with paramilitary groups called the Silver Shirts and the Christian Front.

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