America is Fucked
America is Fucked
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- yuekit4
This is a weird bit of history you don't hear about much. In 1939, American fans of Hitler held a massive Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden. It was billed as simply "pro American rally" and featured a giant portrait of George Washington flanked by swastikas.
A documentary made a couple years ago on this event:
- German Americans are a big percentage of people, so obviously he'd have some support. Still does with some of them.PhanLo
- If you ignore hard to define 'real Americans' (descended from Brits), Germans make up the largest single (white) heritage in the US.Nairn
- A ton of people in many countries were supportive of hitler especially in the early years of the warnb
- Few people were aware of the holocaust until the very end of it all. Historians don’t ignore this but movies do.nb
- Lot of folk in the UK thought Hitler was a ledge too.PhanLo
- It really says something about humanity that so many support war. It's sad and terrifying.formed
- The group that organized this was basically just the American wing of the Nazi party in Germany, and yeah they appealed to German ethnic solidarity.yuekit
- The video of this event is surreal -- includes Nazis reciting the pledge of allegiance, then a Jewish protester storms the stage and the Nazis beat him up withyuekit
- help of the New York police.yuekit