Who is George Sylvester Viereck

George Sylvester Viereck (December 31, 1884 – March 18, 1962) was a German-American poet, writer, and pro-German propagandist.

Biography

Early life

Sylvester's father, Louis Viereck, was born in Berlin in 1851, to the unmarried actress Edwina Viereck. It was rumored that Louis was the son of Kaiser William I, but Louis was acknowledged as a son instead by Louis von Prillwitz, a son of Prince Augustus of Prussia. In 1870, Louis joined the Socialist Party, and was banished from Berlin eight years later under Otto von Bismarck's Anti-Socialist Laws. In 1881 he became editor of a socialist periodical in Munich. In 1884 he was elected to the Reichstag, but in 1886 was imprisoned for attending Socialist Party meetings. He left the Party upon his release...
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George Sylvester Viereck Poems

• Wanderers
  Sweet is the highroad when the skylarks call,
  When we and Love go rambling through the land.
  But shall we still walk gayly, hand in hand,
  At the road's turning and the twilight's fall?...
• The Candle And The Flame
  Thy hands are like cool herbs that bring
  Balm to men's hearts, upon them laid;
  Thy lovely-petalled lips are made
  As any blossom of the spring....
• The Buried City
  My heart is like a city of the gay
  Reared on the ruins of a perished one
  Wherein my dead loves cower from the sun,
  White-swathed like kings, the Pharaohs of a day....

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• Jwalters314: propaganda. ernest lundeen, however, died in an air crash with a pro-nazi speech in his briefcase. he was a stooge for german spy, george sylvester viereck, who had co-opted scores of us congressman and the america first society to make america complicit to hitler's strategy.
• Spiesvespers: “give me something to hate and i will guarantee to organization a powerful propaganda campaign anywhere within 24 hours.” -- george sylvester viereck
• Spiesvespers: it’s time for strange spy facts! poets and poetry edition! master german propagandist george sylvester viereck began his career as a poet. nineveh and other poems (1907) brought him international fame. also wrote a weird vampire book!
• Kaesif: great interviews of the 20th century: adolf hitler interviewed by george sylvester viereck
• Ion_books: the house of the vampire by george sylvester viereck read the full book on youtube:

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