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In reply to the discussion: A man who walks onto the stage and hugs a flag is pretty fucked up [View all]japple
(9,838 posts)26. Footage Recalls the Night Madison Square Garden Filled With Nazis
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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/documentary-shows-1939-nazi-rally-madison-square-garden-180965248/(This is from Oct. 2017)
The torch-lit rally of white nationalists in Charlottesville, Virginia, earlier this summer may have been surprising to many Americans. But for Academy Award-nominated documentary director Marshall Curry, it was a call back to an event he was already investigating: a 1939 Nazi rally on George Washingtons birthday that drew 20,000 Americans to Madison Square Garden. Curry collected together the existing bits and pieces of film footage from that rally and put them together into a short documentary called A Night At the Garden, that premiered on The Atlantic this week.
The film shows about six minutes of the rally, including the American Nazis marching into the hall in the partys brown uniforms, reciting the pledge of allegiance and listening to the national anthem before giving Nazi salutes. It also includes a piece of a speech by Fritz Kuhn, the leader of the German-American Bund (the American wing of the Nazi party), in which he rails against the "Jewish-controlled media" and says its time to return United States to the white Christians who he says founded the nation. At one point during the speech a 26-year-old plumbers helper from Brooklyn named Isadore Greenbaum charges the stage and yells, "Down with Hitler."
The film shows about six minutes of the rally, including the American Nazis marching into the hall in the partys brown uniforms, reciting the pledge of allegiance and listening to the national anthem before giving Nazi salutes. It also includes a piece of a speech by Fritz Kuhn, the leader of the German-American Bund (the American wing of the Nazi party), in which he rails against the "Jewish-controlled media" and says its time to return United States to the white Christians who he says founded the nation. At one point during the speech a 26-year-old plumbers helper from Brooklyn named Isadore Greenbaum charges the stage and yells, "Down with Hitler."
The filmmaker, Michael Curry, was interviewed on On The Media by Brooke Gladstone.
The rally is the subject of the Oscar-nominated documentary short "A Night at The Garden" by filmmaker Marshall Curry. In this On the Media podcast extra, Brooke talks with Curry about how the film's themes resonate today and how a 30-second broadcast spot has had a media moment of its own.
https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/when-nazis-gathered-in-new-york
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The world would stop, completely and not go again till said Democrat was removed from society
Eliot Rosewater
Mar 2019
#3
Trying to alert friends to seriousness of Trump fascism and sociopathic supporters
onit2day
Mar 2019
#93
I have never seen any world leader of any Nation hug and rub their face against the flag...
Pachamama
Mar 2019
#78
Just another prop to him, I actually do blame the people who follow him more than him.
Eliot Rosewater
Mar 2019
#101
Cheering him on are many veterans who he is disrespecting. Big fucking problem.
Eliot Rosewater
Mar 2019
#4
You mean also when they gave a standing ovation at CPAC when Trump declared "McCain Dead"?
Pachamama
Mar 2019
#77
As a veteran, this is one use of the Flag I find repulsive.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
Mar 2019
#100
W's flag signing was demeaning and arrogant, but Trumps flag humping is more like a rape.
thewhollytoast
Mar 2019
#19
Yes it was. Hoping this exposure will cause people to share (yet another) chapter in our
japple
Mar 2019
#72
The orange maggot has really f'ed up things like reunions, family holidays & long term friendships
kimbutgar
Mar 2019
#65
Say what you will, Trump really knows how to play all those moronic, uneducated rural dweebs who
Nitram
Mar 2019
#55
Don't think you're alarmist. He as at least 40 million followers. How many will kill & die for him?
Evolve Dammit
Mar 2019
#57
Maybe we should all send him KFC and McDonalds gift vouchers to prevent that?
cstanleytech
Mar 2019
#62
Hugging the flag is not the problem rather its the false display of patriotism and the crowd
cstanleytech
Mar 2019
#61
Agree. And yet, he is still here. The nightmare continues to bleed our country...
Guilded Lilly
Mar 2019
#81
Someone in his close circle told him that it would make for great theater
Ferrets are Cool
Mar 2019
#83
Foreign visitors are often amazed by Americans' overdoing of patriotic symbols
IronLionZion
Mar 2019
#86
"the difference between that crowd, and those who cheered and adored Hitler"
FiveGoodMen
Mar 2019
#98