Dies Committee investigators raided the three-room apartment of Homer Herman Maertz, a pro-Nazi editor, and seized large quantities of pro-Fascist and anti-Semitic literature. Maertz was not at home, and the raiders left with his landlord a subpoena ordering his appearance in Washington before the Dies Committee on un-American activities.
Among the literature were handbills proclaiming: “This is a Jewish, not an American emergency;” several thousand gummed stickers carrying a cartoon showing President Roosevelt surrounded by Jewish advisers; several issues of the Dispatch, a mimeographed pro-Nazi publication bearing Maertz’ name as editor and stickers reading: “Gentile America says long live Lindbergh.”
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