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07-28-2016, 02:52 AM
When Nazis held mass rallies in Madison Square Garden
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May 17, 1934
A mass meeting of members of the Friends of New Germany.
Image: Bettmann/Getty Images
Shortly after Adolf Hitler’s appointment as Chancellor of Germany in January 1933, the Nazis consolidated control over the country. Looking to cultivate power beyond the borders of Germany, Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess charged German-American immigrant Heinz Spank**bel with forming a strong Nazi organization in the United States.
Combining two small extant groups, Spank**bel formed Friends of New Germany in July 1933. Counting both German nationals and Americans of German descent among its membership, the Friends loudly advocated for the Nazi cause, storming the ******s of New York’s largest German-language paper, countering Jewish boycotts of German businesses and holding swastika-strewn rallies in black-and-white uniforms. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/27/nazis-madison-square-garden/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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May 17, 1934
A mass meeting of members of the Friends of New Germany.
Image: Bettmann/Getty Images
Shortly after Adolf Hitler’s appointment as Chancellor of Germany in January 1933, the Nazis consolidated control over the country. Looking to cultivate power beyond the borders of Germany, Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess charged German-American immigrant Heinz Spank**bel with forming a strong Nazi organization in the United States.
Combining two small extant groups, Spank**bel formed Friends of New Germany in July 1933. Counting both German nationals and Americans of German descent among its membership, the Friends loudly advocated for the Nazi cause, storming the ******s of New York’s largest German-language paper, countering Jewish boycotts of German businesses and holding swastika-strewn rallies in black-and-white uniforms. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/27/nazis-madison-square-garden/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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