Free American State

The Free American State was a Nazi German puppet state and self-proclaimed American government-in-exile active during the Great Revolutionary War. It was established by and for fascist American expatriates living in Germany on 4 July, 1941, opened on 7 July, and was administered as a de facto colony based in the town of Maly Trostenents, located in occupied Belarus. The colony was used by Nazi Germany for propaganda purposes, as the FAS sought to recreate an image of traditional Second Republic-era Americanism, which the Reich could use as a showcase for the preservation of a traditional "Aryan" America. Meanwhile, the American residents were largely employed at a nearby concentration camp, where they would became notorious for their extreme brutality towards inmates, often singling out American POWs, who they viewed as traitors to communism. The community itself was largely sustained through slave labour from Soviet civilians. As the tide of the war turned against the Axis powers, the FAS would recieve less resources and investment from Berlin, and living standards, which were once very high for American inhabitants, begun to seriously deteriorate by late 1943..