Tuesday, January 21, 2020

1938-1939 Nazis in Madison Square Garden 



 





 Disturbing Pictures From The History Of America's Nazis Since the 1930s, American Nazi parties have sought to advance their agenda of hate, bigotry, and ignorance. https://www.buzzfeed.com/gabrielsanchez/american-hate?utm_term=.usO4MdRjg#.nvkvkAM9L 
 





A Look Back at the 1939 Pro-Nazi Rally at Madison Square Garden and the Protesters Who Organized Against It 

 Intersections: Pro-Nazi Rally at Madison Square Garden, 1939 - Amplify ampthemag.com/the-real/intersections-pro-nazi-rally-at-madison-square-garden-1939/ 

The Nazi Rally in Madison Square Garden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gU9op16rjQ




In the 1930s, thousands of American Nazis hailed George Washington as the ‘first fascist’ The history of Nazi summer camps and rallies in NYC Nazis Hail George Washington As First Fascist,” read a March 7, 1938 headline in Life magazine. The brief article reported on a boisterous group of pro-Nazi Americans who called themselves the German American Bund. The organization, whose antagonistic rallies and assemblies were rife with anti-Semitic and ethno-nationalist rhetoric, had begun to capture mainstream attention as the very politics they embraced were driving Europe toward war. https://timeline.com/nazis-america-camps-rallies-4fc6dfe5e3b3 

'They Didn't Just Go Away': Historian Talks About NYC's 1939 Nazi Rally http://gothamist.com/2017/08/14/nazi_rally_history_msg_nyc.php via Gothamist 

Nazi Summer Camps In 1930s America? https://n.pr/1P09Pob 

There Were American Nazi Summer Camps Across the US in the 1930s http://gizmodo.com/how-american-nazis-used-summer-camps-to-indoctrinate-th-1743267747? 

American Bund The Failure of American Nazism: The German-American Bund’s Attempt to Create an American “Fifth Column” The Battle of Charlottesville http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-battle-of-charlottesville 

It would have been naïve to expect the President to unambiguously condemn neo-Confederates (“Heritage, not hate,” etc.), but Nazis? For reasons that are not hard to discern, the swastika, at least in the United States, has always been more clearly legible as a symbol of racial bigotry than the Confederate flag. This country has countenanced more gatherings of white supremacists than it is possible to count, yet Nazism, precisely because Americans do not feel implicated in its worst predations, has typically been easily recognizable as intolerable. In the wake of Rockwell’s gathering, Chicago’s mayor, Richard Daley, denounced the group as “thugs and hoodlums.” Following the Bund rally in New York’s Madison Square Garden, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia ordered an investigation into their tax compliance—a move that uncovered embezzlement that proved fatal to the organization. In that context, Trump’s decision in February to remove white supremacists from a federal program to counter violent extremists (while maintaining focus on Muslim terrorists) is telling. This had the effect of emboldening the reactionary legions. It was predictable that Richard Spencer’s coalition of the contemptuous would come together. Rockwell was never more than a fringe character, but Spencer increasingly looks like the vector of a formidable anger—one that needs to be confronted at direct angles, not oblique ones. When questioned about the rationale for Trump’s even handedness, the White House clarified that both the protesters and the counter-protesters had resorted to violence. This is notable in that the United States was once a country that did not see Nazis and those willing to fight them as morally equivalent. Aside from that, however, there were no images of anti-fascist protesters mowing down reactionaries with their cars. In 1939 Nazis rallied in Chicago to make Germany great again Four thousand supporters gave the Nazi salute in a northwest-side park.

 It can’t happen here? Confronting the fascist threat in the US in the late 1930s By Joe Allen Issue #87: Features Share The first article in this series (ISR 85, Sept.–Oct. 2012) focused on the struggle against the Silvershirts in Minneapolis.1 Part 2 focuses on the struggle against the German American Bund and the Christian Front in New York City. http://isreview.org/issue/87/it-cant-happen-here 



The Bund: The American Arm Of The Nazi Party Before And During WWII By John Kuroski on April 2, 2017

When Nazis came to New York 
Support for the Nazi party wasn't limited to Europe. During WWII, American support for the Nazis was growing, as is evident in these jarring images of Nazis in New York. From the suburbs of Long Island to the Big Apple, we take a look back at when Hitler and his Nazis' attempt to infiltrate the American public in New York. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nazis-new-york-gallery-1.2856907?pmSlide=1.2856893



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