Homer Maerz
Dr. Herman Homer Gustav Maerz also Herman Homer Gustus Maerz[1] (born ca. 1913) of Chicago was the author of several anti-Semitic articles which appeared in his publication The Dispatch. He republished the article Jewish Ritual Murder by British fascist Arnold Leese. Maertz suggested the Charles Lindbergh baby kidnapping and murder may have been a case of Jewish ritual murder. The Dispatch was issued under the name Pioneer News Service which was a non-existence paper entity.
Maerz was the founder of the Dearborn Crusaders and acted as liaison between the German American Bund and the Silver Shirts. He distributed hundreds of thousands anti-Jewish leaflets and booklets and was sentenced on December 29, 1939 one to ten years in the Illinois State Penitentiary for malicious mischief for his literature distribution.[2]
In August 1944 Maerz addressed the National Convention of the America First Party held in Detroit, Michigan and proposed the following resolution:
- Whereas America is confronted with an acute Jewish problem which seems destined to lead to bloodshed and strife as in the case of other nations where Jews have surreptitiously maneuvered to a dominant political, social and economic status...
- Be it resolved, by the delegates here assembled that all Jews be deported to a later designated area or voluntarily leave American shores within five years to countries of their own choosing, and
- Be it further resolved, that those Jews who elect to remain in America submit to sterilization, thus solving the American Jewish problem for all time.[3]
Homer Maerz was the sole individual who made the proposal and the resolution did not pass.[4]
In October 1945 Maertz was arrested in New York City with Ernest F. Elmhurst, a defendant in the Great Sedition Trial of 1944 and Kurt Mertig, a pro-German leader of the Citizens' Protective League on charges of unlawful assembly and selling pamphlets on Jewish ritual murder.[5] Maerz was later convicted and sentenced to one year in the city prison.
Jail
Homer Maerz served a six-month jail sentence in 1941 for smashing windows of Goldblatt Brothers a Jewish owned department store.[6] [7]
Notes
- โ House Investigation of Un-American Propaganda Activities in the United States (1943) Page 80
- โ House Investigation of Un-American Propaganda Activities in the United States (1943) Page 80
- โ The Plot Against the Peace (1945)
- โ GLK Smith FBI file
- โ American Jewish Yearbook 1946-1947
- โ "Americas 3 Fascists Party Promoter Recruits Hoodlums Sluggers", by Eugene Segal, El Paso Herald-Post,July 18, 1945
- โ 3 Silver Shirt Leaders Arrested, Admit Anti-jewish Terrorism in Chicago