100: Fascist USA

Episode 100: On February 20th, 1939, twenty thousand American Nazis held a rally in Madison Square Garden, declaring George Washington as the “first fascist.” How did Nazi movements come to thrive in the United States, and what were the social and historical conditions that paved the way for their success? Twitter: Link Patreon: Link Shirts and more: Link Sources and Further Reading Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law: Link Nazi action T4 euthanasia programme: historical research, individual life stories and the culture of remembrance: Link The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism: Link The Horrifying American Roots of Nazi Eugenics: Link Legalizing Hate: The Significance of the Nuremburg Laws and the post-War Nuremburg Trials: Link Henry Ford and "The International Jew": Link Henry Ford and the Jews : The Mass Production of Hate: Link Anti-Semitism and American History: Link Cannistraro, Philip V. Blackshirts in Little Italy: Italian Americans and Fascism, 1921-1929. Vol. 17. Bordighera Incorporated, 1999. Wolf, Cameron. "Fritz Kuhn's Nazi America: Kuhn's Growth and Destruction of the German American Bund in the 1930s." PhD diss., Department of History, University of Kansas, 2019. Post-War Further Reading Veil of Protection: Operation Paperclip and the Contrasting Fates of Wernher von Braun and Arthur Rudolph: Link American Fuehrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party: Link The dialectics of historical fantasy: The ideology of George Lincoln Rockwell: Link Dr. Space: The Life of Wernher von Braun: Link Becoming a Racist: Women in Contemporary Ku Klux Klan and Neo-Nazi Groups: Link The Beast Reawakens: Fascism's Resurgence from Hitler's Spymasters to Today’s Neo-Nazi Groups and Right Wing Extremists: Link Reichsrock: The International Web of White-Power and Neo-Nazi Hate Music: Link