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  • 2020-02-21 (xsd:date)
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  • Do These Photos Show a 1939 Nazi Rally at Madison Square Garden? (en)
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  • In February 2020, photographs supposedly showing a Nazi rally that took place at Madison Square Garden in the late 1930s circulated on social media: On Feb. 20, 1939, the pro-Nazi organization German American Bund, or the German American Federation, held a rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City. This rally was billed as a Pro America Rally, featured swastikas, Nazi salutes, and a 30-foot-tall portrait of U.S. President George Washington. Here's how History.com described the rally: Contemporary news articles noted that around 20,000 people attended this rally, while close to 100,000 anti-Nazis, made up of protesters, theatergoers, and passersby, gathered outside the arena. The day after the rally, The Associated Press reported that about a dozen protesters were arrested following scuffles with police. Newspaper columnist Dorothy Thompson was nearly ejected from the rally after she shouted nonsense during a pro-Nazi speech. Tue, Feb 21, 1939 – Page 1 · The Plain Speaker (Hazleton, Pennsylvania) · Newspapers.com The 1939 Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden was also featured in a 2017 Oscar-nominated documentary short called A Night At the Garden. https://vimeo.com/234762935 While the images displayed at the top of this page are often shared as if they come from a single Nazi rally in 1939, however, there were actually several Nazi rallies held at the famous arena throughout the 1930s. The photograph showing the Nazi flag surrounded by American flags, for example, was taken at a rally in 1938. We also found a photograph that showed a group of children raising Nazi salutes on stage at the Garden in 1936. The following image shows another 20,000-person rally that was organized by the League of the Friends of the New Germany, the American pro-Nazi organization that preceded the German American Bund, at Madison Square Garden in 1934: It should be noted that these Nazi rallies did not take place at the Madison Square Garden currently standing in 2020, but at the old building referred to as MSG III, which was built in 1925 and demolished in the 1960s. (en)
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