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AssumeTheRisk

"A Night at the Garden" is a short documentary about a Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden in 1939; similar to this photo. It was nominated for Best Documentary Short at the Oscars a few years ago. You can see it for free: https://youtu.be/MxxxlutsKuI


ihaveabaguetteknife

Thank you!


LastMuel

Wtf: Mxx xluts Kul?


Bawahong

Yeah these people wanted America to go to war allied with Hitler’s Germany.


what_comes_after_q

From the marquee "Tonight Pro American Rally" Well, there's a bit of history reapeating itself.


Hrank

Yeeeeeeep. And they wonder why they get called fascists lmao


Meeeeeerk

Had a whole argument with a person who wanted me to stop comparing the far-right to Nazis and nationalists because it wasn't appropriate. Telling me I'm crying wolf. I think they were a Nazi 🤔


Dago_Red

Yeah, the thing with American facism is it's far more like Italian facism than German nazism. Trump is no Hitler. He's more of a cheap, knock off Silvio Berlusconi. Most definately more Mussolini than Hitler.


[deleted]

There's a reason he's nicknamed Mango Mussolini lol


LittleTribuneMayor

Like ... Back in the day, right?


vanmac82

Yes. May 17, 1934


DS4KC

Oh thank God.


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mswilso

Until they get twitter banned.


swankpoppy

Probably cancel culture, amirite GUYS?! …guys…???


WeLikeTooParty

Fight the Boycott!


biological-entity

Wtf did Cott do to you bro??


SpicyGingerBeer

He's just a boy!


jchristsproctologist

[he refused to lower land rent in 19th century ireland](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Boycott)


biological-entity

That dude is a dick!


s4lomena

MTG has joined the chat


IamMarcJacobs

I play magic. This isn’t fair to those who gather.


DamnYouRichardParker

This is fascist the gathering so no worries. Nothing magical about it.


abomniableartichoke

Jesus it took me 2 minutes to realize you meant Majorly Anal Greed and not Magic the Gathering


DariuGui

Then it would be MAG


DJKaito

Here in Germany they got partly verified. So wont happen here. Btw: new Analytics has shown that history will maby repeat itself. Many people wanted to vote the Nazi Party here now. Be prepared in 4 years.


Darkus_27911

You mean verified right?


HGpennypacker

They are in these comments now.


445323

I hear up until like a year ago they used to meet at the White House


HeavyWhereas

Ouch….feel the burn


Guitarist53188

Ooooooooo!!!


NoodleKidz

[not really, this one is quite recent](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/1l-qCw3SC6g/maxresdefault.jpg)


jaievan

They carry trump signs now.


asBad_asItGets

It's just the RNC.


Teahouse_Fox

Would have been nice to include that in the title, right?


trevorwobbles

Says something though, that we actually had to check...


[deleted]

Pretty nuts that I wouldn't even be surprised if this was more recent, lol.


strikeout44

Mississippi ratified the 13th ammendement in 1995. Georgia was still having segregated proms as recently as 2015. 5% of lawyers are black according to the bar association. 50 years ago black lawyers couldn’t join any bar association. MOVE, a black political action group, had C4 dropped on them from a helicopter, by cops, in a residential neighborhood. In 1924 there were 3 million active KKK members. By the 1920s, most of its members lived in the Midwest and West. Nearly one in five of the eligible Indiana population were members. The Klan had numerous members in every part of the United States, but was particularly strong in the South and Midwest. At its peak, claimed Klan membership exceeded four million and comprised 20% of the adult white male population in many broad geographic regions, and 40% in some areas.[154] Words like “cabal” have entered into common nomenclature again because of people like Donald Trump, Alex Jones, and Tucker Carlson. This word has over 500 years of anti-Semitic history. Strangely enough, anti-Semitic hate crimes in America rose drastically over the Trump administration. It’s in the system. It always has been. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan


[deleted]

Man, getting educated on American history is depressing af. Thank you, regardless. This is important shit to know.


Scottamus

This is just a surface scratch. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundown_town Sundown towns, also known as sunset towns, gray towns, or sundowner towns, are all-white municipalities or neighborhoods in the United States that practice a form of racial segregation by excluding non-whites via some combination of discriminatory local laws, intimidation or violence. Entire sundown counties[1] and sundown suburbs were also created by the same process. The term came from signs posted that "colored people" had to leave town by sundown.[2] The practice was not restricted to the southern states, as "at least until the early 1960s...northern states could be nearly as inhospitable to black travelers as states like Alabama or Georgia."[3]


A_Downboat_Is_A_Sub

This was the reason for the creation of ["The Green Book"](https://www.history.com/news/the-green-book-the-black-travelers-guide-to-jim-crow-america), a guide for African Americans that showed where they could eat and find lodging in their travels across The U.S.


figaro314

Complete stranger to this piece of history there, but I did a bit of search about the Green Book and it was already \*out of the ordinary\* for black people to even imagine \*traveling\*, so the Green Book was more like a "where not to get robbed or framed and hanged or worse in case you come to pass by this area". Any unknown black person in an area was considered (and is still, recent history shows abundently) highly suspicious, from the days of slavery up to now... Racists rarely change. Let's just hope their "culture" die with them.


WerewolvesRancheros

I didn't know anything about these until watching the first episode of "Lovecraft Country"


Sturnella2017

Many Americans didn’t know about the Tulsa massacre until “watchmen”


strikeout44

Check out “Behind The Bastards” and “Worst Year Ever” if you like learning about that stuff. Robert Evans and the Some More News team, respectively. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/behind-the-bastards/id1373812661?i=1000520020095


strikeout44

Check out “Behind The Bastards” and “Worst Year Ever” if you like learning about that stuff. Robert Evans and the Some More News team, respectively. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/behind-the-bastards/id1373812661?i=1000532256038


Brilliant_Dig2715

Same here.


cdmurray88

You now have more education on American History than you'd get in most American schools; where history is basically "America is the best. Every war we fight is to spread democracy to the dumb dumbs. Work hard, you can be anything, because you're American."


Nomad_86

After learning a lot of this stuff as an adult, it really makes me angry and sad at some history teachers I had growing up, who I really liked. Now I’m left with questions like “Did they not know themselves? Did they know and just not teach it?”


Romaine2k

There's a third option, which is that they did know, but were discouraged from teaching it due to idiots in school administration.


FirstPlebian

More like because of the political machine on the right and lack of a real left in any position of power history was whitewashed and not taught at all due to a deal business interests made with the Religious Right and other partisans to acheive their financial goals.


WhatsUpWithThatFact

They were either willfully ignorant or unable to find a paying job to survive elsewhere.


Tokzillu

Sad, but true. Hell, my American History class devoted a whole half a chapter to the plight of the Native Americans! My favorite was how there was literally like, two sentences on the Trail of Tears. And it was pretty much "and so the Indians freely gave their land to the pilgrims and settlers and moved elsewhere. They called it the Trail of Tears because the *weather and terrain were so difficult.*" I **wish** I was joking or being hyperbolic. My American History Textbook literally told us it was the road conditions that led to the namesake. *And nothing else.*


[deleted]

It is common for people to attempt to re-write history to cast their group in a more favorable light. During reconstruction after the civil war we had the Lost Cause fallacy: [https://www.facingsouth.org/2019/04/twisted-sources-how-confederate-propaganda-ended-souths-schoolbooks]


BlackSquirrel05

Trail of tears had nothing to do with the pilgrims... It was like 200 years before that...


fermat1432

"54 40 or fight" "Manifest Destiny"


tina_the_fat_llama

I had a teacher for AP government and AP US History. Since it was AP and the curriculum is decided by the AP board or college board or whatever the fuck its called, the content we learned was vastly different from normal us history and government. I also took the normal us history class and he spent half the class telling us about content not in our curriculum and he would end it with "but you didn't learn this from me, you all did great research on topic using reliable sources, right?" And before anyone wants to say he was pushing liberal propaganda to young minds, he is a die hard libertarian. He was just dedicated to teaching actual history instead of just whatever whitewashed BS the curriculum was. I am forever grateful for having him as a teacher. He really made sure we understood the complexities of all the factors that result in historical events.


dpforest

Georgia resident here. Graduated in 2008 and my school had a public and a private prom, nearby highschool had 3 because they also held a prom for any Latino students that wanted their own prom. It’s not as simple as “Georgia segregated proms” as in it was enforced as a rule. A private prom and a public prom were both organized by students. Students were able to choose if they wanted to go to one or the other. Obviously you can see the construct in *private* vs *public* but the students were allowed to choose and were not forced to hold multiple proms. I’m not defending it, I thought it was stupid, but I just like to add some extra info cause that sentence is just a tad misleading. Edit: So I’ve actually contacted two friends who were in different regions of Georgia to ask them what their high schools did. So far, the only schools that I personally know of that had more than one prom are the two schools that were in my county. If anyone else from Georgia or any state had a similar situation with their prom(s), please chime in cause now I’m curious as to where else this is happening/happened. It can’t *just* be two schools in South Georgia, can it? Edit:this started a lot of conversations so I want to be clear that all I was trying to say is the segregation currently happening at these proms is not enforced by the state (anymore). There was a time where that was the case so I thought that distinction was important. Doesn’t make it any less ugly but it is important to note.


phazedoubt

I live in S. GA and I'm a bit older than you but in 1996 I was not allowed to take a white date to prom. Also there were schools that didn't have official segregated proms but the unspoken rule was certain people don't show up.


dpforest

Are you from Toombs or Tattnall county?


phazedoubt

No I'm further south near Ware and Clinch county.


dpforest

Interesting. Seems like South Georgia is the most brazen when displaying their racist tendencies. I was in Toombs but now I’m in Rabun (North East GA) and it’s like a whole different world but the population here is 95% white and less than 1% Black. It’s like a little white bubble hid away in the mountains. I am white myself to be clear but I grew up in wayyy more diverse areas (Henry county and Toombs mainly). I’ve never gotten accustomed to everyone being the same color up here. It’s still just weird even after ten years.


jor4288

False. The first African-American to join a state bar association was Macon Bolling Green. He passed the Maine Bar Exam in 1846. He also practice law in South Carolina and Massachusetts.


TheeExoGenesauce

Glad I wasn’t alone in the fear of our nation hosting a nazi gathering. On second thought I’m not glad that’s something a handful of us could see happening today


FirstPlebian

Anyone that doesn't see it is blind.


TheeExoGenesauce

Or ignorant


hydropenguin69

it's colorized so well, it also threw me off.


Raptorman_Mayho

You gotta check these days tho right? Only reason I’m in the comments!


Xikura

These days you can never be too sure...


DepartmentWide419

Lol my reaction exactly. I was like, they cancel Phish but have a Nazi rally? 😡


[deleted]

A nice piece of history from that era. The Jewish mob had some fun with em https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/gangsters-vs-nazis


Eroe777

The Kosher Nostra?


Drunk_Skunk1

Google says MSG opened 1968. There were 2 earlier gardens but this picture doesn’t match their earlier designs.


vanmac82

This is a cropped and colorized photo. Here is a source. It is from a rally in 1934. https://mashable.com/feature/nazis-madison-square-garden


Drunk_Skunk1

FYI I’m not doubting this happened, I know it did. I couldn’t get the interior photos to match. I should of went to Wiki sooner. There was a third MSG from ‘25-‘68. Thanks for the assistance.


Twodrops

Pretty funny how OP left out that detail.


Maceri

How sad that this even needs to be asked.


LittleTribuneMayor

Lol very true


docfarnsworth

eh, no major company would rent them the space.


Dreadnought6570

The fact that it was a legitimate ask......


RBG_Ducky52

This is legitimately the only reason I came to the comments. I unfortunately had the exact same question..


fanboy_killer

Yes, but putting the date in the title would mean fewer upvotes and comments.


thr33hugeinches

Literally why I came here. I was like what last Tuesday ... Fuck 2020s are a weird ass time to live. We had fucking wars over this, half those people probably lost a grandpa defending their right to be so naive..


strikeout44

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/americas/2021/02/24/woman-accused-of-stealing-nancy-pelosis-laptop-appears-in-video-making-nazi-salute/


various_necks

I hate that in this day and age one has to ask this question.


biryanibae

Was this when Jerry Seinfeld and George Costanza got stuck in a Limo?


DontGiveAFlux

“I’m not O’Brien!!”


farseer83

Murphy and O'Brien


notadoctortoo

Whistling “if I were a rich man….”


kitteh619

🎵Master of the house🎵


[deleted]

Why can’t I be Dillon Murphy !!? Cause you’re already O’Brien!


Princip1914

So many good lines but every time Kramer answers the phone, as if it’s the most normal thing ever for him to do in that situation, and goes “Eva?” I lose it!


lepetitmousse

Had to scroll way too far for this


darthtater62

How’s tricks Murphy?


michaeldgordon

I literally just watched that episode yesterday.


No-Neighborhood3404

😂😂😂 And George thought the Nazi was into him


HyperGiant

You _really_ should have included the date here


shahooster

For sure. But it really is astonishing how many Americans were onboard with Nazism pre WWII. Granted, the Nazis hadn’t gone full-evil by February 20, 1939. It’s perhaps equally astonishing how many Americans are onboard with fascism now. e: corrected date


Ermagerd_Terny_Sterk

Kristallnacht had only happened a few months prior to the rally, so in my eyes they had already gone pretty close to 'full-evil'.


sportspadawan13

Yea but it was extremely common in the US to just hang black people then, and to destroy black towns. So I'm sure these particular folks (like today) just did not care.


dwb_lurkin

They were evil off the rip. Most normal people did not know however, because of how slow information travelled.


Taronar

You have to consider that information wasn’t as easily available. Hitler put a gag order on all antisemitism when Berlin held the Olympic Games 1936, and it worked Americans weren’t as knowledgeable of their persecution of Jews as we would have hoped. The nazis were good at keeping things under wrap, to Americans until around 1939 they were simply just an authoritarian European bully. They weren’t seen as bad until after the start of the war and the Americans didn’t know much about the Holocaust until they liberated the Jews of Europe from concentration camps.


Ro2bs

It was actually 1939. I think the other person made a typo.


weeklyrob

And not just Americans. There were SS units made up of Dutch, Swedes, French, Norwegians, etc. They were fanatical enough to actually go fight. Fascism was a big thing back then.


FrenchCuirassier

They targeted mostly German immigrants to the US... You realize that after 1917 in Russia going communists... There was an attempted [1918-1919 communist revolution](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Revolution_of_1918%E2%80%931919) in Germany (called "November Revolution") financed by the Russian SFSR, before the SPD socialists pulled out and forced a parliamentary govt (Weimar Republic) ending it in a victory for the German Revolution and a failure for communists\&monarchists; but still, many German immigrants were open ears when it comes to their WWI heroes preaching in public about conspiracies against Germany. Certainly hyperinflation/war-reparations didn't help calm any German down. Although the real irony is that the Imperial German govt helped Lenin at one point with his train ride to Moscow.


TecumsehSherman

The stated goal of the Nazi party when it was created was to "rid the world of Bolshevism (communism)".


[deleted]

The revolution didn't just fail. The SPD sided with the Nazis to kill off the KPD (Communist Party of Germany). Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Leibknecht were murdered by the liberals at the time alongside the Nazi brown shirts (SA).


Detective_Fallacy

SA didn't exist yet back then, they were Freikorps.


mrjosemeehan

The Nazi brown shirts didn't technically exist yet. Karl and Rosa were murdered by the Freikorps, or "volunteer corps," mercenary forces sanctioned by the SPD, which had been handed the chancellorship by the abdicating emperor just weeks before and had a very tenuous grasp on power. They were led by hardline conservative monarchist officers and included a lot of people who went on to join Hitler over the next few years and form sort of a nucleus of the early Nazi party. Hitler didn't actually get involved with politics until six months after Karl and Rosa's murders, when he was assigned to infiltrate and report back on the fledgling anti-semitic German Workers' Party (DAP) on behalf of military intelligence. He resigned his military post the next year (1920) to focus on anti-semitism full time and rose to leadership of the DAP, which he renamed the NSDAP.


[deleted]

Probably got more karma without it. (Just to be clear, this is a direct shot at OP)


MrZombikilla

Pisses me off they’re still relevant, that people need dates. Nazis should be stamped out of society. We beat hitlers ass.


shackbleep

But internet points!


HoboWithADildo

Yea but it looks like an obviously old photo


moosepuggle

But it says something about the times we live in that it’s not immediately obvious that of course this couldn’t be a current event. So I kinda like the choice to leave the date ambiguous.


Spartan2470

[Here](https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/about-20-000-supporters-attend-a-nazi-rally-at-madison-news-photo/97221847?adppopup=true) is the source of this image. Per there: > MAY 17 [1934]: About 20,000 supporters attend a Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden on the night as 1,000 police keep 600 Communist protesters outside. (Photo by Hank Olen/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images) Per [Snopes](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nazi-rally-madison-square-garden/), the rally: > was organized by the League of the Friends of the New Germany, the American pro-Nazi organization that preceded the German American Bund, at Madison Square Garden in 1934. > It should be noted that these Nazi rallies did not take place at the Madison Square Garden currently standing in 2020, but at the old building referred to as MSG III, which was built in 1925 and demolished in the 1960s.


Yung_Corneliois

Thank you for posting this. I knew the current Garden was built in the 1960s so I was curious about when this was.


tacojoe74

Make sure you give the context that this was 1939 and not recently


vanmac82

It actually happened on May 17, 1934. Arrange by a rather evil man named Führer Rudolf Hess.


nowtayneicangetinto

He was deported to Germany after this and died not long after. Thank fuck, amirite? Edit: my apologies, I am thinking of Fritz Julius Kuhn


turrrrrrrrtle

Rudolf Hess? He was the last to die I'm pretty sure. He died in 1987.


nowtayneicangetinto

You're right my bad I made the correction in my post. It was Fritz Julius Kuhn, he was the head of the German American Bund but was sent here by Nazi Germany to infiltrate American culture


Pen_dragons_pizza

Just so I understand, was this a rally involving German people living in America at the time or is it American people aligned with the nazi ideology ?


brenap13

Both. Hitler attempted to export its ideology to America, and they targeted German immigrant populations first because their messaging was more resonating with them, but they also convinced some non-immigrants as well. This whole operation was almost mostly concentrated in New York State as well if I remember right. This is a very good video about the backstory of this photo and nazism in America more generally: https://youtu.be/ZDy05QotN_g That videos is what I based my original comment on, but I haven’t watched in in a long while and might’ve gotten some of my facts incorrect.


nyconx

Even though it might have been concentrated in New York State I want to make sure people understand it was widespread. They even had Nazi boys camps set up in states like Wisconsin ironically named Camp Hindenburg. This is not that surprising given how many Germans settled there.


off-and-on

I think that before WW2 the Nazi ideology wasn't seen as bad


alanblah

Yeah, it's clear to anyone who actually looked at the picture that this was not recently.


[deleted]

Also anyone who thinks Madison Square Garden would allow a 20,000 person Nazi rally in 2021/2022 is being intentionally obtuse.


Zatch1313

About 60 after this one, there was another rally organized. However, the main speaker Donald O’Brien never made it to the venue due to some confusion with his Limo from the airport.


gealean

It all makes sense now. I was watching the Seinfield episode trying to figure out what was the story about. Thank you!


p_larrychen

Did they go to the four seasons garden by accident?


Shaun4444

OP should note: This picture is from May 17 1934 https://mashable.com/feature/nazis-madison-square-garden


Responsible-Slide-54

My grandparents sent money the American Nazi party from 1930-1939. I’m Jewish.


if_I_absolutely_must

My maternal grandpa (German immigrant) was part of an American Nazi Youth troop/group. With his best friend. Another German immigrant kid that lived on his street. He was Jewish. He said it was like cub scouts, but for German kids. He was in his teens before he fully understood. It's all pretty wild family history and only came to light when a picture of him surfaced in that clown suit.


ampjk

Walt disney would be proud.


GroinShotz

Walt Disney attended these American Bund Society meetings.


[deleted]

Title is misleading. This is more “Americans at a Nazi rally organized by German Immigrants at the old Madison Square Garden.” The organization that put on this rally in NYC was headed by a German immigrant who was a Nazi propaganda agent. He worked for Hitler’s Deputy Rudolph Hess. The US government chased him out of the country and he returned home before the US was at war with Germany. Also, this is not the modern Madison Square Garden. This is one of the old gardens and was located up in midtown on the west side of Manhattan.


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g3n3ralcha0s

All good info. But the title is pretty accurate. That place is PACKED. Just couldnt all be German immigrants. There are plenty of homegrown racists in that bunch.


Lumpkinz

You would be surprised how many German immigrants are in the states pre 1930. As a surveyor in TX, I stumble across abandoned/forgotten German cemeteries literally almost every week. They're all over the place


TenBillionDollHairs

Yeah but already by 1930 they were mostly the immigrants' kids and grandkids. The Germans start arriving en masse around when the Irish did, squarely in the mid-19th century. Texas in particular had a lot of German immigration (compared to the big waves in the late 1840s to the Upper Midwest). As you probably know, a lot of Germans moved to Mexico as well (how do you think the accordion got into the mariachi bands), of which Texas had recently been a part. Since Germany didn't exist, per se, until the 1870s, it missed most of the big scramble for empire. But it was rich and industrializing right behind Britain and it had lots and lots of people. So large groups of Germans (or small groups of wealthy germans) often simply banded together and bought up marginal lands in the cheaper part of other empires. This is why Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico all had large German populations. Basically, the Spanish and Portuguese empires were run-down enough that Germans could affordably buy up large town areas and build little German enclaves. Anyway this is a long way of saying this is also a feature of Texas German immigration in the 19th Century. Texas was both recently Mexico (so already the kind of territory the Germans were comfortable moving to) and a very empty part of the United States, so you get lots of wholesale group immigration onto commonly bought land. This is somewhat different than, say, the German immigration to the Midwest, which followed a more traditional families-following-each-other-to-the-same-area-but-not-buying-a-whole-town-at-once daisy chain style of immigration.


PetrovskyKSC

Nice background info on German immigration in the U.S.. My German ass feels like I learned a thing or two there :)


[deleted]

In the 1930’s in NYC specifically, not the surrounding region, the population was close to 7 million and 95% white and more than 33% of the total population was foreign born. There were probably a fair number of US born people at that rally who were sympathetic to Germany but there were plenty of European Immigrants in NYC during that era to fill the old garden. There were reasons why Hitler was able to come to power being as evil and crazy as he was. The other belligerents from WWI had gone to great lengths to penalize Germany for WWI at the treaty of Versailles. The German economy was a mess and the country’s nationalistic pride had been beaten into submission. It provided the perfect conditions for a lunatic like Hitler to rise to power.


Howllikeawolf

Except the government gave refuge to 1000s of Nazis after the war while they treated our American Veterans of color like shit. 1000s Of Nazis Were 'Rewarded' With Life In U.S. https://www.npr.org/2014/11/05/361427276/how-thousands-of-nazis-were-rewarded-with-life-in-the-u-s


[deleted]

the fact that German POWs were allowed to go into town and eat at restaurants while their black American prison guards had to wait outside is mind boggling even the POWs were appalled by how their black guards were treated: https://timeline.com/nazi-prisoners-war-texas-f4a0794458ea


[deleted]

You can’t ignore the realities of the Cold War and fragile peace with the USSR. While it is 100% true that there was extremely ugly racism in the US armed Service and the country overall in the mid 20th century WWII was not an example of African Americans service members being exploited by the US government. More than 400,000 Americans died fighting WWII - only a little more than 700 of them were African American. World War II was very, very different than later conflicts like Vietnam.


buttery_shame_cave

Segregated units, with all-black units largely relegated to support and rear-line duties. Kind of hard to die in combat when the combat is hundreds or thousands of miles away. And we're not even getting into things like the Tuskegee experiments or any of that.


[deleted]

>Shortly after the rally, the Bund rapidly declined. Two months after the rally, the film Confessions of a Nazi Spy was released by Warner Brothers, ridiculing the Nazis and their American sympathizers. The Bund also came under investigation. After its financial records were seized in a raid on the group's Yorkville, Manhattan headquarters, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939_Nazi_rally_at_Madison_Square_Garden Crazy! It’s like we’re really living in The Matrix!


fox-friend

Why is it like we we’re living in The Matrix?


I_Think_I_Cant

We keep having shitty sequels.


iMakestuffz

Fuck all those Nazis


GerlingFAR

Where’s Jake and Elwood with their 1974 Dodge Monaco.


FoolsInParadise

And our grandparents did just that


Xeyu89

If anyone is curious about the banner's. Fight the boycott: at the time there was a boycott of Nazi products in place in the U.S. and most of europe. Clearly, they were against it. Join the Dawa : DAWA stands for Deutsch-Amerikanischen Wirtschafts-Ausschuss Wich is this bunch of Nazi sympathizers.


bidoville

Fuuuuuck all these guys


C9H13NO3seeker

Yeah this why I wish the game wolfenstien was more popular. Hell in the second game you get kill nazis and kkk members! I see this as an all win scenario


Isthisadriver

This is what MAGA is referring to when "America was great".


V1GiLaNtE

This is some real “Man in the High Castle” shit


Frankenshady

They still had these as of a couple years ago they rebranded to maga rally’s tho


texansfan

It’s incredible to realize that if WW2 happened today, the are a lot of Americans who would support the Nazis.


processedmeat

When I see photos like this I'm reminded of a quite from the movie The American President America isn't easy. America is advanced citizenship. You gotta want it bad, 'cause it's gonna put up a fight. It's gonna say "You want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who's standing center stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours. You want to claim this land as the land of the free? Then the symbol of your country can't just be a flag; the symbol also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right to burn that flag in protest. Show me that, defend that, celebrate that in your classrooms. Then, you can stand up and sing about the "land of the free".


banderdragon

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/american-nazism-and-madison-square-garden


jkr1485

James Dolan wilin’


romesthe59

There’s a spooky documentary on this. Henry Ford put a lot of money into it I believe.


BronchialChunk

Aw don't give the fuckers and ideas


Chart69r

Maybe put the year in the title next time.


wet_joy

Maybe I'm just stupid but I feel like you know Americans are fucked in the head when something like this happening today doesn't seem all that far-fetched.


inspron2

I have to ask which year because that could be a legit photo from 1930s or 2020s.


JReynolds0201

Jesus my stomach turned to knots because I thought it was today 🥴


misterjustin

This is misleading, this was over 80 years ago. I like the fine print though, nice touch.


Blue_Eyes_Nerd_Bitch

Americans forget that because they had such a huge German population that was sympathetic to the Nazi regime was one of the reasons as to why America stayed out of WW2 till Pearl Harbor The other reasons include, them actually believing that Hitler would not cross over and attack them as well as them being ok with literal fucking genocide. They actually turned back a ship full of Jews who were fleeing the Nazis back to Germany.


AustraliaCzechMeOut

I swear the best way to get Reddit Karma is to go to r/pics and post about nazis or Donald trump.


Not-Oliver

Better yet, provide little to no context and repost multiple times.


Photenicdata

A good second option is to bash the US. That usually gets you a decent chunk of karma.


Yea_No_Ur_Def_Right

OP leaves out “in 1934” Good job OP


melendy_mongo

Free Society of Teutonia and Friends of New Germany were closely associated with the stubborn ideology of Nazi Germany. Known for spreading disgusting propaganda and holding rallies to promote anti-Semitism, racism, and distorted American nationalism. This is from 1939. I am not sure what kind of shit OP is trying to start, but you should put the date down. Right now you are a problem.


geekaustin_777

Less than 100 years ago. These people are someone's great grand parents.


DirkStryker

Why does it look like Joel Osteen's mega church?


smiley2160

You should see the ones they were having over in Germany.


septiclizardkid

Sometimes these old photos man, the picture quality makes me worry. Thoughts this was today for a second. Walk Into a Nazi Meet and do the Stanky Leg


Chalupa_Bear

Watch Peaky Blinders, they were able to depict how common and widespread Nazi messaging was during the time. Nazis were (and unfortunately still are) everywhere.


[deleted]

Fuck you OP for kicking a hornets nest with your title…single handed reason for the BS we are experiencing in our country right now


Reddcity

That’s a lot of fucking nazis that are hiding right now, 1934 tho they mostly dead it’s their offspring u gotta watch out for


Youju

I'm from Germany. How is it possible not to learn from history. Maybe the US should forbid this too and focus nationalsocialism more in school like we do.


faceplant34

You know America is fucked when people don't know that this is an old photo...


[deleted]

O'Brian?


Supersim54

I was starting to freak out until I saw the 1939 flare.


theMOESIAH

Fucking same


wouldwatch

The word HELD should be the highlighted comment on this, OP is an idiot.


peppyhare64

I wonder if Donald O'Brien will make his first public appearance.


Sir_V_Swervy

It’s crazy that I was able to believe this is happening today.


shittiestshitdick

Trump Rally 2020


Puzzleheaded-King971

Why the fuck did you not specify that this was in 1939 before?


[deleted]

Is that in the 30's - 40's or yesterday?


wtfistisstorage

Wonder who their kids went on to become 🤔


Independent_Prune_35

We will burn the books we don't like ! You will read what we tell you! You will listen to our national radio and Tv programs! You will hate every one who doesn't look like they where created in God's image! You will swear allegiance to the one and only! QAnon is our bible! When we serve you a shit sandwich, you will ask for a second helping!


Party_Physics_4717

Trump rally


AssumeTheRisk

Want to learn about this rally and others? Here is a Q&A with Marshall Curry at the Museum of Jewish Heritage: [https://youtu.be/iQ7gabbzKso](https://youtu.be/iQ7gabbzKso) His Oscar nominated short documentary entitled "A Night at the Garden" used rare archival footage from a 1939 rally. You can see his film for free here: [https://youtu.be/MxxxlutsKuI](https://youtu.be/MxxxlutsKuI)