Hitler in Los Angeles — The Hidden Systems Behind Homegrown Extremism
Could organized extremism expand within a democratic society while institutions struggled to recognize the threat?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
In Hitler in Los Angeles, historian Steven J. Ross reconstructs the extraordinary story of Leon Lewis and an undercover civilian intelligence network that infiltrated Nazi and fascist organizations operating in Southern California before World War II. Using thousands of original spy reports, Ross reveals how propaganda, institutional inertia, and organized networks shaped one of the least-known…
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