APPENDIX: HITLER’S AMERICAN FRIENDS IN NUMBERS
GROUP/CLASSIFICATION |
APPROXIMATE MEMBERSHIP |
Executed German Saboteurs |
6 |
Convicted Nazi Spies in the United States |
100 |
Friends of the New Germany |
5,000 [at peak] |
German American Bund Ordnungsdienst (OD) |
5,000 [at peak] |
Silver Legion Members |
15,000 [at peak] |
German American Bund Members |
20,000 [at peak] |
Votes for Gerald B. Winrod in Kansas GOP Primary [1938] |
53,000 |
German American Bund Sympathizers |
100,000 [at peak] |
Silver Legion Sympathizers |
100,000 [at peak] |
Subscribers to the Defender (Gerald B. Winrod) |
100,000 |
Subscribers to Social Justice (Father Coughlin) |
200,000 [minimum—up to 1 million] |
America First Members |
800,000 |
Nationwide Votes for Coughlin-Backed Presidential Candidate William Lemke (1936 election) |
892,000 |
Americans Agreeing Jews Should Be Deported “To Some New Homeland as Fast as It Can Be Done without Inhumanity” (1939 Fortune poll) |
13 million |
Semiweekly or More Frequent Father Coughlin Listeners (1938) |
15 million |
Monthly Father Coughlin Listeners (1938) |
29 million |