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[Los Angeles?]: [German-American Bund?], 1941. A small sticker featuring a Star of David with an accentuated ‘V' and the slogan ‘Ve Vant Var'. These stickers were distributed by Bundists, fascists and isolationists in opposition to the "V is for Victory" campaign, which they believed was a plot by the international bankers (Jews) to capitalize on another world war. One group who distributed the stickers was the Friends of Progress, a Los Angeles-based anti-Semitic organization founded by Robert Noble and Ellis Jones. In a 1945 court case against members of the group for for violating the Subversive Organization Registration Act, witnesses stated that the stickers were sold by the bundle at Friends of Progress meetings, that member James McBride had distributed them, and that the sticker had been seen on the desk of West Coast Bund leader, Hermann Schwinn. In the Nov., 1941 issue of The Beacon Light, American fascist, William Kullgren, published a long article on the V campaign and explained it… Read More