A Night at the Garden
On February 20, 1939 (exactly 80 years ago today), 20,000 Americans rallied in New York’s Madison Square Garden to celebrate the rise of Nazism – an event largely forgotten from American history. A NIGHT AT THE GARDEN, made entirely from archival footage filmed that night, transports audiences to this chilling gathering and shines a light on the power of demagoguery and anti-Semitism in the United States.
A NIGHT AT THE GARDEN was directed and edited by Marshall Curry and was supported and released by Field of Vision. The film was nominated for a 2019 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short; it was also an official selection at the Sundance Film Festival and was part of a special screening and panel discussion at the New York Film Festival. It was released on 22 Alamo Theater screens across the country and at The IFC Center in NYC.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 13 | February 21, 2019 2:07 PM
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"On February 20, 1939 (exactly 80 years ago today), 20,000 Americans rallied in New York’s Madison Square Garden to celebrate the rise of Nazism – an event largely forgotten from American history"
The good old days!
by Anonymous | reply 2 | February 20, 2019 8:08 PM
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They just wanted to make America great again. Leave them alone.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | February 20, 2019 8:14 PM
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My Mother has sheepishly admitted maybe, just maybe, going to a Communist Party meeting in NYC at this time, “because they had food there”. I wonder if it was really a German Bund meeting, which would have made perfect sense.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | February 20, 2019 8:27 PM
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This was horrible and I wish I'd never seen it, but thank you, OP. We need to see it.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | February 20, 2019 8:29 PM
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Trump's dad was likely in attendace
by Anonymous | reply 7 | February 20, 2019 8:29 PM
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Will Trump host a commemorative event in the White House tonight? Stephen Miller's rolodex must be super busy.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | February 20, 2019 8:45 PM
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I've talked about his before, but my father and his friends used to go to some of the American Bund rallies in Philadelphia. They were poor city kids, and the Bund guy would hang around outside their high school passing out free tickets and streetcar tokens to get them to the rally. The big attraction was free beer with free food a distant second--both big lures for 16 year old kids. There would be a band, dancing, beer and food, and then the Nazis would get up and give some speeches. I'm not so sure they weren't held at Valley Forge?
Anyway, none of them took the whole thing seriously, and my Father and all his friends were in the military two or three years later, but he always gave them credit for putting on a pretty good picnic.
He always said that the Bund was nothing compared to a priest named Father Charles Coughlin who had a radio broadcast that was out and out Nazi propaganda, and was enormously popular in his neighborhood back in the day:
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 9 | February 20, 2019 8:49 PM
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Gee, who does this sound like? --------------------- Initially, Coughlin was a vocal supporter of Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal, but became a harsh critic of Roosevelt, accusing him of being too friendly to bankers. In 1934, he established a political organization called the National Union for Social Justice. Its platform called for monetary reforms, nationalization of major industries and railroads, and protection of labor rights. The membership ran into the millions, but it was not well-organized locally.[1]
After hinting at attacks on Jewish bankers, Coughlin began to use his radio program to broadcast antisemitic commentary. In the late 1930s, he supported some of the fascist policies of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Emperor Hirohito of Japan. The broadcasts have been described as "a variation of the Fascist agenda applied to American culture".[2] His chief topics were political and economic rather than religious, using the slogan "Social Justice".
by Anonymous | reply 10 | February 20, 2019 8:59 PM
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This same thread was posted a couple months ago, troll.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 12 | February 20, 2019 11:07 PM
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