On July 18, 1937, nearly 1,000 uniformed American Nazis marched at a German American Bund gathering in New Jersey. With swastika banners flying, the march was a chilling reminder of the growing support for Nazi ideology in the United States during the years leading up to WWII.
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Some were financially supported by Germany to keep the US out of the war, some were ideologically supportive.
There are a number of good books on the topic & a podcast by @maddow.bsky.social "Ultra"
In 1934, a nearby English town had a similar problem.
'The Worthing Anti-Fascist League formed, mainly led by maths teacher John Robert Peryer.'
Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists 'had got the message. There were to be no more mass rallies in Worthing.'
https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/18498388.blackshirts-marched-worthing/
Freedom of speech sir but during war time why wasn't it sedition?
"The Constitution can only end in Despotism as other Forms have done before it, when the People shall have become so corrupted as to need Despotic Government, being incapable of any other." ~ Ben Franklin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRDfIIZZIoI&list=PLF9F59D36819426DF
The Nazi’s used Jim Crow laws of segregation and systematic oppression as a basis for their policies.
The seeds of Hitler's genocide germinated in the USA.
And, on other fronts, it would appear that someone in the Trump team likes Stalin’s domestic immigration policies.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/nazi-town-usa/
NAZIs=White Supremacists=US South Jim Crow!
The seeds of Hitler's genocide germinated in the USA.
Learned quite a bit. Cheered when Fritz Kuhn was ultimately stripped of citizenship of US citizenship and deported back to Germany.
The groundbreaking journalist Dorothy Thompson is very awe-inspiring for her courageousness.
It's only forgotten if you never knew it. All from NY Public Library, or watch Rahel's thing
http://radicalreference.info/node/460
One brilliant photo after another here. Thank you so much.
And it appears Musk will bankroll them FFS
https://www.britannica.com/topic/German-American-Bund
I do not and will never support these haters or policies.
Fascism, or Corporatism, is something rich people have no problem amplifying, since it serves their interests.
We the People haven't learned a damned thing due to extreme naivety and the bastardization of free expression.
It's OK to punch a Nazi.......among others.
People need to fight their local MAGA, especially the newly elected ones who claim that EQUITY is over, as a MAGA College Board Trustee just did in my town, & I live in California!
Nazism even infiltrated Congress during the 1940s. Hitler paid people to do his work, just as Putin pays people now.