Kean U: Uncovering our Local History: Examining Racism & Antisemitism in Scotch Plains & Fanwood

Uncovering our Local History: Part 2 in a Three-Part Immersive Series Examining Racism and Antisemitism in Scotch Plains and Fanwood

Flanders Hall publishing, a news press that operated in Scotch Plains and was overseen by a Plainfield High School teacher of German ancestry, was once the largest Nazi printing press in the United States, with propaganda being streamlined from Nazi Germany itself. We will examine the key personalities that kept Flanders afloat, the ways in which this press shaped American and New Jersey views about WWII and how it all came crashing down.