Seeking to fortify their declining numbers, local pro-Nazis are striving for joint meetings with other German organizations, or with Chicago Nazi followers, recent events indicate.
At its last public meeting in the Republican Hotel, the Milwaukee chapter, Friends of the New Germany, succeeded in luring the Deutscher Handlungsge-hilfen-Verband as a guest of the “Friends” to view some Hitler lantern slides and to hear addresses on why Nazism is acme of good government.
However, this is only the second occasion upon which the Nazis have managed, despite repeated invitations, to get any other German organization to meet with them.
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