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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (400455)	2/20/2019 10:40:48 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 540758

And here we have Bernie running as a socialist and old film footage from the mid-80s of him praising Moscow. Terrific. 80 years ago, 20,000 New Yorkers cheered for Nazis at Madison Square Garden Watch the Oscar-nominated short film about the pro-Nazi rally that Americans forgot. By Alissa Wilkinson @alissamarie alissa@vox.com Feb 20, 2019, 9:30am PST [Marshal Curry’s Oscar-nominated short documentary “A Night at the Garden.” Video in the original, here: vox.com Eighty years ago, on February 20, 1939, about 20,000 Americans gathered at Madison Square Garden for a rally. The world was roiling. Hitler was in the midst of constructing his sixth concentration camp. Seven months later, he would invade Poland. In the cavernous arena, the crowd faced a stage, on which a row of American flags stood against a backdrop bearing a towering image of George Washington. They said the Pledge of Allegiance together and sang the Star Spangled Banner. They listened to speakers and cheered. Young men in starched uniforms stood at attention. And everyone gave the Nazi salute. The reason these 20,000 Americans had gathered, after all, was to join with their fellow “American patriots” in support of the German American Bund, a pro-Nazi organization. “We, with our American ideas, demand that our government shall be returned to the American people who founded it,” said the Bund’s leader, Fritz Kuhn, after decrying the “Jewish controlled press” for painting him as a cartoonish villain. Behind him, swastikas flanked George Washington and the American flag. As the crowd laughed and clapped, he continued: “If you ask what we are actively fighting for under our charter, first, a socially just, white, Gentile-ruled United States. Gentile-controlled labor unions, free from Jewish Moscow-directed domination.” continues at vox.com