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American Experience: Nazi Town Usa
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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ln February 1939, more than 20,000 Americans fiIled Madison Square Garden for an event biIIed as a "Pro-American RalIy." lmages of George Washington hung next to swastikas and speakers railed against the "Jewish controlled media" and caIled for a return to a raciaIly "pure" America. The keynote speaker was Fritz Kuhn, head of the German American Bund. Nazi Town, USA tells the largely unknown story of the Bund, which had scores of chapters in suburbs and big cities across the country and represented what many believe was a reaI threat of fascist subversion in the United States. The Bund held joint rallies with the Ku KIux KIan and ran dozens of summer camps for chiIdren centered around Nazi ideology and imagery. lt's meIding of patriotic vaIues with virulent anti-Semitism raised thorny issues that we continue to wrestle with today. |
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