Henry D. Allen
Henry D. Allen (born 1879 in Worcester, Massachusetts)[1] was a former member of the Silver Shirts and the American White Guard in Pasadena, California.
Life
Allen worked as a mining engineer in Mexico. His wife, Pearl, was a leader of Silver Shirt women in California. He believed the Jews of the world should be resettled on Madagascar.[2] Allen was a government witness in the Great Sedition Trial.
- Exaggerated testimonies about the Bund in front of the Dies Committee also received plenty of attention in the American press. These testimonies served as the basis for American fears about the Bund’s activities, and what they meant for American society. One article detailed the testimony of Henry D. Allen, a Bund associate and self-described antisemitic and anti-communist from California. Martin Dies and the Dies Committee conducted Allen’s testimony. Allen testified that Nazi Germany worked through the German Embassy in Los Angeles to control the Bund. This testimony was untrue; Nazi Germany and the German American Bund were not directly involved with one another. However, papers printed this testimony as a fact which solidified American fears about the Bund as a foreign-controlled threat.[3]
Primary research material
California State University Library at Northridge (Oviatt Library-JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LOS ANGELES’ COMMUNITY RELATIONS COMMITTEE COLLECTION, PART 2 [1]; Boxes 30/14-24; 31/01-07; 42/17-23; 43/01-11; 210/40-44; 211/01-11; (Photo) 01-16; 04-14
External links
- Photograph of Mrs. Leslie Fry with Henry Allen, Conrad Chapman, and Mr. Gurin (Jew) in 1937
References
- ↑ Testimony of Henry D. Allen, August 22, 1939, before the House of Un-American Activities Committee, page 3972
- ↑ Testimony of Henry D. Allen, August 22, 1939, before the House of Un-American Activities Committee, page 4042
- ↑ Minna Thrall: “What For is Democracy?” – The German American Bund in the American Press, 1936-1941, Chapman University, May 2020, p. 23
