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Related: About this forumChilling footage of a 1939 pro-Nazi rally in New York City foreshadows Trump's rallies today
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/8/14/1879047/-Chilling-film-of-huge-pro-Nazi-rally-in-New-York-City-1939-foreshadows-Trump-s-rallies-today?detail=emaildkbow
Cirque du So-What
(25,988 posts)Modern nazis would insert 'under god' into the pledge of allegiance.
gordianot
(15,245 posts)More than a few of these characters ended up imprisoned for the duration of the war. Nothing like the Japanese Americans experienced unjustly but they were removed all the same. My Grandfather was assaulted by relatives complaining about his son who had more than a few news articles published in the local paper about his exploits in the Eighth Army Air-force. Being a local Postmaster Grandpa had FBI contacts and got even. J Edgar Hoover was really no ones friend but Grandpa a Democrat sang his praises for his response which he never divulged.
George II
(67,782 posts)...and commented that I wouldn't be surprised if my paternal grandfather (who I never met) was probably at that event at MSG. He was a Nazi sympathizer in NYC in the 1930s. A family outcast.
tblue37
(65,490 posts)randr
(12,417 posts)We did not learn a thing from WW11 and history repeats itself.
Video Drone
(75 posts)Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)Or the time Donad's grandfather begged Germany to re-instate him, and Germany refused?
bucolic_frolic
(43,310 posts)They had pockets here and there, NYC, Long Island, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, youth camps, towns that were redlined into the present. Bund declined when its leader was jailed for tax evasion and embezzlement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_American_Bund
FakeNoose
(32,777 posts)There was a lot ignorance about what Hitler was really up to, especially here in the States. I don't think many people even understood what "fascism" meant, and they sure as hell didn't want to get pulled into another European war.
So yeah in retrospect this looks stupid and scary to us, but for these guys in Madison Square Garden it was just a cosplay night. You know, dress up in costume and then go have some beers.
yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)an American organization associated with the anti-Semitic demagogue Father Charles Coughlin.
Coughlins radio audience numbered in the millions, and, according to Schwarz, the Christian Front would have helped to turn out the crowd at this rally. The fact that it was held in supposedly liberal and cosmopolitan New York City also suggests that passive support for the Bund, and its views, was substantial among the American public.