Trailer | Nazi Town, USA
Preview: Season 36 Episode 1 | 1m 26sVideo has Closed Captions
The story of the German American Bund, a pro-Nazi group active across the US in the 1930s.
Nazi Town, USA tells the story of the German American Bund, a pro-Nazi group which in the 1930s had scores of chapters across the country, representing what many believe was a real threat of fascist subversion in the United States. They held joint rallies with the KKK and ran summer camps for children centered around Nazi ideology and imagery, melding patriotic values with virulent anti-Semitism.
Corporate sponsorship for American Experience is provided by Liberty Mutual Insurance and Carlisle Companies. Major funding by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
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Trailer | Nazi Town, USA
Preview: Season 36 Episode 1 | 1m 26sVideo has Closed Captions
Nazi Town, USA tells the story of the German American Bund, a pro-Nazi group which in the 1930s had scores of chapters across the country, representing what many believe was a real threat of fascist subversion in the United States. They held joint rallies with the KKK and ran summer camps for children centered around Nazi ideology and imagery, melding patriotic values with virulent anti-Semitism.
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In the 1930s, there were these camps all across the country and they looked normal, but it wasn't normal.
It was Nazi camp.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
In the depths of the Depression.
A great many Americans started to ask themselves whether the American experiment was failing.
Lots of Americans thought that capitalism, democracy they were done for and something else was going to have to take its place The membership card in the Friends of the New German Note the American emblem and over it the Nazi swastika.
as foreign as this might seem, fascist ideology tapped into some dark realities in America.
I'd like to tell you a few words about our purpose and aims.
He imagined that he was going to build a distinctively American version of Nazism.
Theyre after power, theyre after influence, within the very fabric of the United States They were literally holding parades in front of of Jewish peoples homes.
There's no such thing as foreign fascism.
Fascism is always home grown.
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