![]() George earned a place at a New York college and graduated from there in 1906. His father decided to emigrate to the USA in 1896, this being the land of his actress wife Laura. He was showing some talent as a poet from the age of 11, quoting the likes of Oscar Wilde and Napoleon Bonaparte as having a strong influence on his thinking. It was a somewhat disjointed upbringing though where the boy was brought up by a member of the famous Hohenzollern dynasty but he did, nevertheless, receive a good education. His family circumstances suggested royal connections with one story indicating that George’s father may have been Kaiser Wilhelm I”s son. He was born on the last day of 1884 in Bavaria. He used his weekly periodical The Fatherland during the First World War to spread Nazi propaganda. George Sylvester Viereck, a German-born American poet and magazine editor, held strongly pro-Nazi views. ![]()
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