Nazi Town, USA | movie | 2024 | Official Trailer
In February 1939, more than 20,000 Americans filled Madison Square Garden for an event billed as a “Pro-American Rally | dG1fSC1oLWh4cE80UTg
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00:00 [MUSIC]
00:02 >> In ever increasing numbers,
00:03 the nation's youth has been going away to camp.
00:06 >> In the 1930s, there were these camps all across the country, and
00:10 they looked normal, but it wasn't normal.
00:14 It was Nazi camp.
00:15 [MUSIC]
00:17 >> The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
00:23 >> In the depths of the Depression, a great many Americans started to ask
00:26 themselves whether the American experiment was failing.
00:28 >> Lots of Americans thought that capitalism, democracy, they were done for,
00:33 and something else was gonna have to take its place.
00:36 >> The membership card and the friends of the new Germany,
00:39 not the American emblem, and over it the Nazi swastika.
00:41 [MUSIC]
00:44 >> As foreign as this might seem,
00:46 fascist ideology tapped into some dark realities in America.
00:50 >> I'd like to tell you a few words about our purpose and aims.
00:54 [MUSIC]
00:57 >> He imagined that he was going to build a distinctively American version of
01:01 Nazism.
01:02 >> They're after power, they're after influence,
01:04 within the very fabric of the United States.
01:07 >> They were literally holding parades in front of Jewish people's homes.
01:10 [MUSIC]
01:13 >> There's no such thing as foreign fascism.
01:16 Fascism is always homegrown.
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