Heinz Spanknobel

Heinz Spanknobel was a German immigrant to America who led the pro-Nazi Friends of New Germany.

Given authority by Rudolf Hess, in May 1933, to create an American Nazi organization, Spanknobel founded the "Friends of New Germany". He was deported in October 1933 for failing to register as a foreign agent.

References

• The American Axis: Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and the Rise of the Third Reich by Max Wallace (New York: St.Martin's Press, 2003, ISBN 0-312-29022-5)

External links

• American Bund: The Failure of American Nazism by Jim Bredemus