Who Paid For Millions of Fascist Pamphlets in the US in 1940?

Nazi Germany did, explained in ‘Prequel’ by Rachel Maddow

Tucker Lieberman
7 min readNov 2, 2023

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Eagle with caption: An American Fight Against Fascism. Detail from book cover of Prequel
Detail from the book cover of Prequel (on Bookshop)

A year ago, I listened to Rachel Maddow’s podcast, Ultra, which told the story of a U.S. plot to promote German propaganda during WWII. Nazi agents in the US, including George Sylvester Viereck, asked U.S. publications to provide mailing lists of potential Nazi…

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Tucker Lieberman

Editor for Prism & Pen. Author of the novel "Most Famous Short Film of All Time." https://tuckerlieberman.com/