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Chilling footage of a 1939 pro-Nazi rally in New York City foreshadows Trump's rallies today (Original Post) yortsed snacilbuper Aug 2019 OP
Only difference between then and now... Cirque du So-What Aug 2019 #1
Under God came later. gordianot Aug 2019 #4
I believe "Under God" was added in the early 1950s by republicans. I've seen this video before.... George II Aug 2019 #6
K&R for visibility. nt tblue37 Aug 2019 #2
Frighteningly foreshadowing of todays foreign interference randr Aug 2019 #3
NowThisNews: Fox News' Nazi Hypocrisy Exposed Video Drone Aug 2019 #5
was that about the time that Fred Trump was KKK? Grasswire2 Aug 2019 #7
Not a lot of history online about Bund Party bucolic_frolic Aug 2019 #8
The US was very isolationist after World War I FakeNoose Aug 2019 #9
The Bund was allied with the "Christian Front," yortsed snacilbuper Aug 2019 #10

gordianot

(15,226 posts)
4. Under God came later.
Sun Aug 18, 2019, 01:51 PM
Aug 2019

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)
6. I believe "Under God" was added in the early 1950s by republicans. I've seen this video before....
Sun Aug 18, 2019, 02:11 PM
Aug 2019

...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.

randr

(12,408 posts)
3. Frighteningly foreshadowing of todays foreign interference
Sun Aug 18, 2019, 12:55 PM
Aug 2019

We did not learn a thing from WW11 and history repeats itself.

Grasswire2

(13,564 posts)
7. was that about the time that Fred Trump was KKK?
Sun Aug 18, 2019, 05:55 PM
Aug 2019

Or the time Donad's grandfather begged Germany to re-instate him, and Germany refused?

bucolic_frolic

(42,661 posts)
8. Not a lot of history online about Bund Party
Sun Aug 18, 2019, 07:08 PM
Aug 2019

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

(32,328 posts)
9. The US was very isolationist after World War I
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 09:38 PM
Aug 2019

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)
10. The Bund was allied with the "Christian Front,"
Tue Aug 20, 2019, 02:19 AM
Aug 2019

an American organization associated with the anti-Semitic demagogue Father Charles Coughlin.

Coughlin’s 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.

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