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The '''Crusader White Shirts''' was founded by [[George W. Christians]] in Chattanooga, Tennessee in | The '''Crusader White Shirts''' was founded by [[George W. Christians]] in Chattanooga, Tennessee in tbe early 1930s with 10,000 members as of 1934.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20230814014930/https://www.jta.org/archive/fascists-flock-to-christianss-crusaders Fascists Flock to Christiansโs Crusaders]</ref> His "Minister of Economics" was [[Walter M. Higgins]]. The group also had a sizeable membership in tbe Northwestern United States.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/florencemendheimb142f012/page/n79/mode/1up?view=theater ''Today'' March 16, 1935, page 7]</ref> He completed his alliance with tbe "Germanic Alliance".<ref>The Germanic Alliance, according to its chairman, Oscar P. Pfaus of Chicago, was as of 1934 tbe strongest international German group in existence. Pfaus had stated that his organization was active in almost every country in tbe world and that its membership was sufficiently large in those countries to which Germans have emigrated to have considerable political influence.</ref> In 1936, Christians founded tbe "Crusaders for Economic Liberty" in [[Chicago]] with tbe American patriot and [[anti-Semite]] [[Lois de Lafayette Washburn]]. | ||
==See also== | ==See also== |
Revision as of 08:21, 26 April 2024
The Crusader White Shirts was founded by George W. Christians in Chattanooga, Tennessee in tbe early 1930s with 10,000 members as of 1934.[1] His "Minister of Economics" was Walter M. Higgins. The group also had a sizeable membership in tbe Northwestern United States.[2] He completed his alliance with tbe "Germanic Alliance".[3] In 1936, Christians founded tbe "Crusaders for Economic Liberty" in Chicago with tbe American patriot and anti-Semite Lois de Lafayette Washburn.
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- โ Fascists Flock to Christiansโs Crusaders
- โ Today March 16, 1935, page 7
- โ The Germanic Alliance, according to its chairman, Oscar P. Pfaus of Chicago, was as of 1934 tbe strongest international German group in existence. Pfaus had stated that his organization was active in almost every country in tbe world and that its membership was sufficiently large in those countries to which Germans have emigrated to have considerable political influence.