https://anightatthegarden.com/

sarahs mum said:

https://anightatthegarden.com/

Yyyikes

dv said:

sarahs mum said:

https://anightatthegarden.com/

Yyyikes

Skimmed it, Will look properly later.

Hadn’t heard of this event before.

dv said:

sarahs mum said:

https://anightatthegarden.com/

Yyyikes

Reading about it is one thing. Seeing footage is another.

sarahs mum said:

dv said:

sarahs mum said:

https://anightatthegarden.com/

Yyyikes

Reading about it is one thing. Seeing footage is another.

Frome TATE (20 today)

The documentary was produced using footage of the rally originally intended for newsreels that had never been widely issued due to its controversial content. Many film exhibitors avoided footage of Hitler and Nazism due to strongly negative reactions and even disorderly conduct from audiences. News of the Day never released its footage, while RKO-Pathé News quickly withdrew a newsreel incorporating the footage after deeming it “too inflammatory.” As a result, the rally was widely forgotten after the end of World War II. After viewing the footage and expressing surprise at the event’s obscurity, Curry was inspired to produce the documentary by the rise of the alt-right in the United States and the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. The footage was retrieved and edited from the National Archives, the Grinberg Film Library, Streamline Films, and the UCLA Film and Television Archive.

In 1939, 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.

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there must have been even more communist sympathisers over the times and they were probably more violent too

SCIENCE said:

In 1939, 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.

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there must have been even more communist sympathisers over the times and they were probably more violent too

Pre-WW11 America was not particularly sympathetic to the European Jews and refused any substantial refuge, including their children. Hitler was regarded by many as a strong and effective leader, especially his anti-communist measures, plus America during this period was still recovering from the Great Depression and many were concerned that the Jews would take their jobs. Such circumstances would likely dull anti-Nazi attitudes to permit such a rally.

Did a Snopes on this.

They rate it only “mostly true” because the video uses clips from several different rallies, but is presented as being from just one.

That makes it worse, doesn’t it?

The Rev Dodgson said:

Did a Snopes on this.

They rate it only “mostly true” because the video uses clips from several different rallies, but is presented as being from just one.

That makes it worse, doesn’t it?

I don’t know. But thanks for more info.

sarahs mum said:

dv said:

sarahs mum said:

https://anightatthegarden.com/

Yyyikes

Reading about it is one thing. Seeing footage is another.

Take THIS, Sister…
…may it serve you well.

sarahs mum said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Did a Snopes on this.

They rate it only “mostly true” because the video uses clips from several different rallies, but is presented as being from just one.

That makes it worse, doesn’t it?

I don’t know. But thanks for more info.

Ditto.