anti-Semitic organizations proliferated across the United States.

More than 100 of them before the decade's end on the East Coast.

William Dudley Pelly, a mystic who believed he took his orders directly from Jesus, led a paramilitary fascist organization modeled after the Nazi Brownshirts called the Silver Legion of America, and claimed there were 22 million communists in the United States, all of them following orders from rabbis in the Midwest, an evangelist named Gerald Wynn Rudd assured his radio listeners that Roosevelt was a devil controlled by Jews, while Hitler was a man's man and a stalwart defender of Christianity.

A group that called itsel the friends of the New Germany desecrated synagogue walls with swastikas, and Father Charles Coughlin, a Detroit priest with a radio audience of millions, blamed Shylock and international bankers code words for Jews for the depression.

Hitler gave the money changer for the temple, and you did it.

He begins to give overtly, unquestionably anti-Semitic sermons, many of which come straigh out of Goebbels, many of which come straight out of German propaganda and militants of Americans tune in.

A visitor to the white House reported that FDR was quite apprehensive of the growing anti-Semitic and pro-Naz sentiment in the United States.