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United States, FDND. A Friends of New Germany Side Cap, c. 1934

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United States, FDND. A Friends of New Germany Side Cap, c. 1934

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United States, FDND. A Friends of New Germany Side Cap, c. 1934

A side cap fabricated from a brown cotton-blend, with fold down flaps also in brown material on either side, with two rising peaks forming a valley between the two panels, the panels are sewn together with black thread, the top edge of the flaps is trimmed in golden-yellow threading, with a FDND (Friends of New Germany/Freunde Des Neue Deutschland) insignia pinned in place on the right side, the inside is not lined, the cap measures 27.5 cm (w) x 10 cm (h) [10.83 inches x 3.94 inches], presents moderate soiling and wear, and is in overall very fine condition and extremely rare. Footnote: Friends of the New Germany was an American National Socialist political group formed in Chicago in July 1933. Many of the members of this group who were American citizens joined the German-American Bund in 1936 after Friends of New Germany was dissolved. The others who were German citizens living in America formed the German Bund. A Canadian section was also started in 1933. The Friends of the New Germany increased its membership between October l933 and March l934 from four hundred to four thousand members. On May 17, 1934, the group drew 50,000 to a rally at New York City's Madison Square Garden to promote the expansion of their counter-boycott organization