George Sylvester Viereck


George Sylvester Viereck was a GermanAmerican poet, writer, and proNazi propagandist.

George Viereck was born in Germany, to a German father and Americanborn mother. His father Louis, born out of wedlock to German actress Edwina Viereck, was reputed to be a son of Kaiser Wilhelm I. Another relative of the Hohenzollern family assumed legal paternity of the boy. In the 1870s, Louis Viereck joined the Marxist socialist movement. George Viereck began writing poetry when he was eleven. His heroes were Jesus Christ, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Oscar Wilde. In 1896, Louis Viereck emigrated to the United States his U.S.born wife Laura and their twelveyearold son George followed in 1897.

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