Word: bunds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what he had learned in Germany haunted him. When Hitler came into power, Ausborn sold his farm, went to Winnipeg and devoted all his time to organizing an anti-Nazi movement among Canadians of German descent. For a while he was successful. Then the German Consulate organized a Bund in Winnipeg and financed a violent Nazi newspaper. Ausborn was beaten up by Bundist thugs. Once he made an effigial tombstone for Hitler, which was to be carried in a May Day parade. Police made him take the name off, because it was considered an insult to the head...
...came back from fighting as a volunteer for Loyalist Spain; he was called a Red and a troublemaker. Most of his family turned against him. Embittered and socially ostracized they asked: Why did he not mind his own business when he came to Canada? Others got along with the Bund and prospered. Why did he love democracy so much? It wouldn't even give him a job. First one daughter left home, then another. Finally in December 1940 Ausborn came home one night and found a note from his wife that she had left...
...Herrenvolk of the Midwestern and Northeastern States will constitute the German-Magyar American Bund, which will have a common frontier with the enlarged Mexican Federation of Latin States...
...Bund. Seven months after Pearl Harbor, the Government moved in on the German-American Bund, which had "dissolved" upon American entry into the war, had gone underground in literary, singing and sports societies. In New York, 29 Bundsters and associates were indicted on charges of assisting German-Americans to evade the draft. The time for laughing at the Bundsters' funny accents and cheap uniforms was at last officially over...
Conspiracy. Three days later the U.S. got a sudden reminder of its careless prewar past, when the Bund was only a joke. In the tiny fishing village of Boca del Rio, six miles south of Mexico's steamy Vera Cruz, Mexican police nabbed swarthy Gerhard Wilhelm Kunze, onetime leader of the German-American Bund, where he succeeded Fritz Kuhn. Wilhelm Kunze had lived quietly in a small hotel, had bought a launch for an escape by sea. Hustled back to the U.S., he awaits trial on a charge of having conspired to send military information to Germany and Japan...