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Title: Φασισμός Post by: Aristos on October 21, 2017, 14:02:51 pm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxxxlutsKuI
Made in USA, 1939 Title: Re: Φασισμός Post by: Fantine on October 21, 2017, 16:11:03 pm That’s not to say there weren’t plenty of people who condemned the rally at the time. A counter rally that took place in Carnegie Hall saw 3,500 people show up to denounce the Nazis, including New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, who called the Bund rally an “exhibition of international cooties.” The Bund rally itself attracted a huge crowd of protestors who were held at bay by 1,500 police officers.
The German-American Bund was founded in 1936 by pro-Nazi ethnic Germans living in the United States. Estimates vary, but according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the organization counted 25,000 dues-paying members, including approximately 8,000 uniformed Sturmabteilungen or Storm Troopers. (The Bund itself claimed it had 200,000 members.) Besides the Madison Square Garden rally and subsequent march through the streets of New York, the group is best known for running several summer camps for Nazi youth throughout the United States including Camp Will and Might in Griggstown, New Jersey, a camp near Windham, New York, and Camp Hindenburg near Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Linton Weeks reports for NPR. In 1939, Kuhn was charged with embezzlement, imprisoned and stripped of his citizenship. Many of the Bund’s assets were seized. Without leadership, the Bund fell apart. Once Nazi Germany began invading other European nations that same year, support for Nazism in the United States diminished even more, and by the time American soldiers were deployed support for Nazi ideology was taboo. But that doesn’t mean support for the type of racism and nationalism supported by the Nazi’s ever went away, even in the years immediately after World War II. Πηγή: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/documentary-shows-1939-nazi-rally-madison-square-garden-180965248/ |