Austin App, said to be “the first major American Holocaust denier,” became a vice‐president of the AF‐ABN by 1973, and chaired the Captive Nations Committee in Philadelphia from at least 1969 until his death in 1984.

Four years later, Christopher Simpson, author of Blowback: America’s Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effects on the Cold War, argued that App wasn’t just a bad apple. “Similar attitudes are a pervasive part of the Captive Nations movement throughout the U.S., and have been for many years.” Austin App was a founding member of the National Captive Nations Committee, which established the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.

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In 1959, Prince Niko Nakashidze, a Georgian [Axis] collaborator and Secretary General of the ABN, wrote a letter to Senator Paul Douglas (D‐IL), who sponsored the Captive Nations Week legislation. “As long as the United States of America exist they have never aimed to conquer foreign countries. They have allowed neighboring small states to exist and develop unmolested and have respected the freedom of other peoples and individuals.”

Events that happened today (July 21):

1944: The Greater German Reich executed Claus von Stauffenberg and four of his coconspirators for planning to murder Adolf Schicklgruber. (Coincidentally, Yankee troops landed on Guam, starting a battle that ended on August 10.)