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Biography of Austin J. App

Austin Joseph App (1902-1984) taught English language and literature at Catholic University of America and the University of Scranton between 1929-1942. After serving in the Army in World War II, he continued to teach literature at Incarnate Word College and LaSalle College between 1944-1968, but became increasingly involved in revisionist history, anti-semitism, anti-communism, anti-integration and anti-pornography interests. He was director of Boniface Press beginning in 1948, president of the Federation of American Citizens of German Descent from 1960-1966, and chair of the Captive Nations Committee of Greater Philadelphia beginning in 1965.

Scope and Content

Collection includes business and personal correspondence (1925-1981) including correspondence with revisionist historian Harry Elmer Barnes; research files chiefly related to political, historical and social issues including correspondence, notes, manuscripts, newspaper clippings and printed materials; manuscripts (1923-ca. 1980); speeches; financial records; biographical information; scrapbooks; photographs; and books and other printed materials, many in German, on topics related to his historical, racial and social interests.

Restrictions

Access Restrictions

There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes, and the collection is open to the public.

Copyright Information

The researcher assumes full responsibility for observing all copyright, property, and libel laws as they apply.

Preferred Citation

Item Description, Box Number, Folder Number, Collection Name, Collection Number, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.

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Related Materials

There are no known other archival collections created by Austin J. App at the date of processing.

Additional Information

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Access Terms

Anti-communist movements.

Antisemitism -- United States.

App, Austin J. (Austin Joseph), 1902- -- Autobiography.

App, Austin J. (Austin Joseph), 1902- -- Curse of anti-anti-semitism.

App, Austin J. (Austin Joseph), 1902- -- Six million swindle.

App, Austin J. (Austin Joseph), 1902- -- Straight look at the Third Reich.

Barnes, Harry Elmer, 1889-1968.

Boniface Press.

Communism and Judaism.

Communism and Zionism.

Communism.

Federation of American Citizens of German Descent.

Financial records.

German Americans.

Germany -- Foreign relations -- 20th century.

Germany -- History -- 1933-1945.

Germany -- History -- 1945-1990.

Germany -- History -- 20th century.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

Israel -- Foreign relations.

Israel -- History.

Photographs.

Pornography -- United States.

Racism -- United States.

Scrapbooks.

Speeches.

United States -- Race relations.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- United States.

World War, 1939-1945 -- German Americans.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews.

World War, 1939-1945.

Authors, American.

College teachers.

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