85 years ago, as Hitler was completing the construction of the 6th concentration camp to exterminate his “enemies”, the American Nazis held a hate-filled rally at Madison Square Garden, NYC.
(Rare footage from the 2017 Documentary entitled “A Night at the Garden,” by Marshall Curry, about the 1939 German American Bund Rally at NYC’s Madison Square Garden, supporting Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.)
Donald Trump’s MAGA rally scheduled for Sunday night, October 27, 2024, at Madison Square Garden, NYC, is no coincidence.
Just as the hate-filled, anti-government Trump campaign selected Waco, Texas, as a launchpad for his latest Presidential campaign, MAGA extremists are gathering at The Garden for Trump’s closing campaign statement of 2024 — explicitly to remind hard-core Trump supporters that the last extreme right wing hate group to assemble there was the American Nazi Party, in 1939.
The Nazis met at NYC’s Madison Square Garden at precisely the same time Adolf Hitler finished construction of his sixth concentration camp to exterminate Jews, and Hitler’s other “enemies,” seven months before he started World War II by invading Poland.
The Pro-Hitler rally, was attended by 20,000 hard-core Fascists while 100,000 anti-Nazi protestors demonstrated outside the Garden carrying signs which read: “Drive the Nazis Out of NY.”
Inside, the Garden was decorated with a huge portrait of George Washington, surrounded by Swastika flags on each side. It was billed as a “Pro-American” rally, and supported by the German American Bund Movement, The Christian Front, and the Friends of the New Germany (also known as, “The Hitler Club.”)
Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally comes nine days before the 2024 Presidential election, when two of Trumps own former high ranking generals — Mark Milley and John Kelly — have referred to him as a “Fascist” determined to destroy our democracy and rule like a dictator. Kelly told the New York Times that Trump often expressed admiration for Adolf Hitler.
The American Fuhrer Fritz Kuhn address the Nazi crowd in 1939, and referred to President Franklin D. Roosevelt as “President Rosenfeld,” and then-NYC Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia as “Fiorello ‘Jew Lumpen’ LaGuardia.
His speech called for a “White Gentile-controlled US,” and to kick all “Jews & Marxists” out of American Labor Unions.
Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally is also happening on the sixth anniversary of the Pittsburg Tree of Life Synagogue Massacre, where a virulent anti-immigrant, Jew-hating Trump supporter assassinated 11 Synagogue members who were attending religious services. The mass-murderer targeted the Tree of Life Synagogue because of its support of HIAS — the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society — an historic social services agency founded to help Jews escape pogroms and extermination efforts around the world — which had been singled out for punishment by extremist Right Wing media.
It is urgent to remember the names of the 11 innocent hate-crime victims of the October 27, 2018, Tree of Life Synagogue Massacre on this day and everyday, especially since extreme fascist anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, anti-democratic elements of American society are rallying once again in Madison Square Garden, the site America’s largest pro-Nazi, pro-fascist rally, 85 years ago:
May their memories be a blessing always:
Joyce Fienberg
Richard Gottfried
Rose Mallinger
Jerry Rabinowitz
Cecil Rosenthal
David Rosenthal
Bernice Simon
Sylvan Simon
Daniel Stein
Melvin Wax
Irving Younger