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taxes or the
unemployed worker
in
an industrial center who
find a job did not know history any too well nor under
stand the workings of the economic system; and when they were
couldn
t
told by newspapers brought to them by the United States Gov
ernment mails that their economic difficulties were due to a
Jewish-Communist plot, that Roosevelt was a Jew and was con
trolled by Jews and Communists, some of them were prone to
believe
grew.
it.
With
this
Men and women
irresponsible propaganda anti-semitism
were attracted to the Nazi web without
dreaming of the forces disseminating the propaganda of the
motives behind them.
The most
capable of those drawn into the Nazi propaganda
machine were chosen for more serious work. Some were used
for propaganda; others were given definite espionage assignments.
The espionage and propaganda divisions of the Nazi machine in
this country are separate bodies. They overlap only in serving as
a recruiting ground.
The smuggling of anti-democratic propaganda off Nazi ships
entering American ports was exposed by the McCormick Con
gressional Committee, but it stopped only for a brief period. The
Nazi ships which bring in propaganda also bring secret instruc
tions to agents here and take back their reports. To eliminate
tell-tale evidence, Dr. George Gyssling, Nazi Consul in Los
Angeles, has paid out cash to leaders of the German propaganda
machine on the West Coast. Affidavits to this effect are in my
possession.
The
headquarters for the West Coast propaganda machine
little in espionage, is the Deutsches Haus, 634
which dabbles a
W.
i5th Street, Los Angeles. The building is supposed to be
merely a meeting place for German-Americans and sympathizers
of the Hitler regime. Actually
The Deutsches Haus, before
activity,
its
functions are far
more
sinister.
was turned into a center of Nazi
had been a typical Los Angeles home. When the Nazis
it