Nazi Town, USA (2024)

ALL 01/23/2024 (en) Documentary 57 Min
  • Release
    01/23/2024
  • Production
    PBS, American Experience Films
  • Rotten tomato
    86.67%
  • Original title
    Nazi Town, USA
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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The Untold Story of Nazi Sympathizers on American Soil

Overview

In February 1939, more than 20,000 Americans filled Madison Square Garden for an event billed as a “Pro-American Rally.” Images of George Washington hung next to swastikas and speakers railed against the “Jewish controlled media” and called for a return to a racially “pure” America. The keynote speaker was Fritz Kuhn, head of the German American Bund. Nazi Town, USA tells the largely unknown story of the Bund, which had scores of chapters in suburbs and big cities across the country and represented what many believe was a real threat of fascist subversion in the United States. The Bund held joint rallies with the Ku Klux Klan and ran dozens of summer camps for children centered around Nazi ideology and imagery. Its melding of patriotic values with virulent anti-Semitism raised thorny issues that we continue to wrestle with today.

  1. Story

  2. Don Kleszy

    Editor



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  1. Beverly Gage

    Historian (self)

  2. William Hitchcock

    Historian (self)

  3. Sarah Churchwell

    Cultural Historian (self)

  4. Steven Ross

    Historian (self)

  5. Leah Wright Rigeur

    Historian (self)

  6. Arnie Bernstein

    Writer (self)

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Nazi Town, USA (2024) 57 Min

ALL 01/23/2024 (en)
Documentary
  • Release 01/23/2024
  • Production
    PBS, American Experience Films
  • Original title Nazi Town, USA
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

The Untold Story of Nazi Sympathizers on American Soil

Overview

In February 1939, more than 20,000 Americans filled Madison Square Garden for an event billed as a “Pro-American Rally.” Images of George Washington hung next to swastikas and speakers railed against the “Jewish controlled media” and called for a return to a racially “pure” America. The keynote speaker was Fritz Kuhn, head of the German American Bund. Nazi Town, USA tells the largely unknown story of the Bund, which had scores of chapters in suburbs and big cities across the country and represented what many believe was a real threat of fascist subversion in the United States. The Bund held joint rallies with the Ku Klux Klan and ran dozens of summer camps for children centered around Nazi ideology and imagery. Its melding of patriotic values with virulent anti-Semitism raised thorny issues that we continue to wrestle with today.

  1. Peter Yost, Edna Alburquerque

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Don Kleszy

    Editor

  4. Edna Alburquerque, Peter Yost

    Producer