Loyalty On Trial

About the Book

Loyalty On Trial reveals that Arthur Wolter was accused of being the "power behind the throne" of an organization targeted by J. Edgar Hoover during WWII as subversive and un-American. Referenced in the index files of the House Special Committee on un-American Activities as the "poet laureate of the German American Bund," Wolter's writings were used against him in the government's attempt to revoke his citizenship.

In an effort to assure Americans during WWII that the homeland was secure from subversives and potential saboteurs, the loyalty of German Americans was challenged by the FBI, which in turn raised issues of civil liberties that would ultimately be heard by the United States Supreme Court.

About the Author

As the 60 year-old son of Arthur Wolter, the subject of the book, and as a teacher of United States Government and Politics, the author is highly qualified to write Loyalty on Trial. The author is in possession of the original and only known complete record of the case of the ?United States of America vs. Arthur Heinrich Wolter.? The 700-page trial transcript, along with the nearly 1000-page FBI file acquired through a Freedom of Information Request, are the primary resources for the book. Erik Wolter lives with his wife in Winter Park, Florida.