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Contents of this path:

  1. Nazi Stormtroopers March in Hindenburg Park, Sept. 1936
  2. Capt. Robert Pape, formerly of German Army, first head of LA Friends of New Germany chapter
  3. Leon Lewis ca 1918
  4. Capt. John Schmidt (Agent 11), Leon Lewis' first spy ca. 1933
  5. Capt. Carl Sunderland (Agent 8) fall 1933. One of Leon Lewis's first four spies.
  6. Major C. Bert Allen (Agent 7), one of Lewis's first four spies
  7. Col. William Conley (Agent WC) Lewis's sole Jewish spy
  8. First Nazi Meeting of Friends of New Germany July 1933
  9. Julius Klein, uncle of Associate Spymaster Joseph Roos, ca 1933; sends undercover reports of Nazis to Gen. George C. Marshall
  10. Joe Roos (l) and Julius Klein (r)
  11. Congressman Samuel Dickstein led the fight to create the first House UnAmerican Activities Committee, March 1934.
  12. Hermann Schwinn introduces Hollywood director writer Rupert Hughes at Washington Birthday celebration, Feb. 1936
  13. Swastika Flag Flown on Broadway Street--Downtown Los Angeles April 1936
  14. Georg Gyssling Home on S. Mariposa; later the site of German Consulate
  15. Charles Slocombe Agent C19
  16. Charles Slocombe's City Water Taxi Service (Long Beach) ca 1936
  17. Hollywood Anti-Nazi League Rally, Shrine Auditorium
  18. German American Bund Choir, German Day, Hindenburg Park, Sept. 1936
  19. Fascist and Silver Shirt leader Henry Allen, ca 1938
  20. Henry Allen's "Kike Killer" (left door of car) April 1938
  21. Henry Allen, Alcatraz, July 1912
  22. Hermann Schwinn Outside Deutsches Haus (Nazi Meeting Hall)
  23. Hermann Schwinn and his dog Lump (Rogue in English), ca 1936
  24. Anti-Semitic Posters Attack Hollywood ca 1937
  25. Leopold McLaglan and Philip Chancellor Trash Hollywood Anti-Nazi League Headquarters, April 1937
  26. British Fascist Capt. Leopold McLaglan
  27. Anti-Nazi Protests Outside Deutsches Haus, August 1938
  28. Warren, Pearl, and Henry Allen (newspaper over face), William Bockhacker (Agent W2) with back to camera, Oct. 1938
  29. National German American Bund Leader Fritz Kuhn, Hindenburg Park, April 1939
  30. German Consul Georg Gyssling Welcomes Leni Riefenstahl to Los Angeles, Dec. 1938
  31. Camp Sutter Nazi Summer Camp in LA
  32. Commander Ellis Zacharias, Head of Naval Intelligence, Pacific Coast, 1938
  33. Leon Lewis Receives Americanism Award June 1939
  34. Neal Ness Testifying before HUAC, Oct. 1939
  35. Robert Noble (Friends of Progress) Mugshot, Nov. 3, 1937
  36. Ellis Jones (Friends of Progress) Testifies Before Tenney Committee, September 1941
  37. Hermann Schwinn Arrested After Pearl Harbor, Dec. 8, 1941
  38. Hans Diebel, Hermann Schwinn's right-hand man, arrested and interned after Pearl Harbor, Dec. 1941
  39. Nazi Material Seized in Raid of Aryan Bookstore After Pearl Harbor, Dec. 1941
  40. Franz Ferenz sent to San Quentin, Oct. 1942
  41. Joseph Roos 1960