When George Washington filled Madison Square Garden
by digby
22,000 Nazi supporters attended an American Bund rally at New York’s Madison Square Garden in February 1939, under police guard. Demonstrators protested outside. An American Bund parade through New York’s Yorkville district on Manhattan’s Upper East Side drew both supporters and protesters and the press. Aside from its admiration for Adolf Hitler and the achievements of Nazi Germany, the German American Bund program included antisemitism, strong anti-Communist sentiments, and the demand that the United States remain neutral in the approaching European conflict.
Interesting that they didn' round all these guys up and put them in internment camps when the war broke out, isn't it? I wonder why.
They venerated George Washington as the American Hitler, leader of men and action hero.
Just saying.
