<p>Recently released footage from 1939 shows approximately 20,000 <a href="https://www.someecards.com/news/politics/holocaust-survivor-protests-trump/">American Nazis</a> staging a &quot;Pro-America&quot; rally in Madison Square Garden in New York City.</p><p>The rally, organized by Fritz Kuhn, leader of the infamous German-American Nazis group known as the Bund, ignited a mass protest where over<a href="http://gothamist.com/2017/08/14/nazi_rally_history_msg_nyc.php"> 100,000 angry New Yorkers</a> flooded the streets.</p><p>Filmmaker <a href="http://gothamist.com/2017/10/18/nazis_madison_square_garden.php?utm_source=feedly&amp;utm_medium=webfeeds">Marshall Curry </a>and the documentary project <a href="https://vimeo.com/237489146">Field of Vision </a>released the chilling forgotten footage on Vimeo last week:</p><p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" mozallowfullscreen="" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/237489146?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;badge=0" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="640"></iframe></p><p><a href="https://vimeo.com/237489146">Field of Vision - A Night at the Garden</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/fieldofvision">Field of Vision</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p><p>The video depicts thousands people giving the Nazi salute to the American flag and portrait of George Washington. Eventually, Fritz Kuhn takes the podium, and makes a speech about &quot;American patriots&quot; with &quot;American ideals.&quot; He also attacks the press for how he and his followers are represented. Hm.</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>At about 3:50 into the video, a protester rushes the podium, and is beat down and thrown off stage by soldiers. According to Curry, the protester was a 26-year-old plumber&#39;s helper from Brooklyn named Isadore Greenbaum.</p><p>He was arrested for disorderly conduct and later fined.</p><p>&quot;A friend of mine told me about it last year, and I couldn&#39;t believe that I&#39;d never heard of it. When I found out that it had been filmed, I asked an archival researcher, Rich Remsberg, to see what he could find,&quot; Curry told local New York City newspaper <a href="http://gothamist.com/2017/10/18/nazis_madison_square_garden.php?utm_source=feedly&amp;utm_medium=webfeeds"><em>The Gothamist</em></a>. &quot;It turned out that short clips had been used in history documentaries before, but no one seemed to have collected together all of the scraps of footage &mdash; there was some at the National Archives, some at UCLA&#39;s archive, some at other places. So he gathered it, and I edited it together into a short narrative. When Charlottesville happened, it began to feel urgent.&quot;</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

Recovered footage shows disturbing Nazi gathering at Madison Square Garden.

Recently released footage from 1939 shows approximately 20,000 American Nazis staging a &quot;Pro-America&quot; rally in Madison Square Garden in New York City.The rally, organized by Fritz Kuhn, leader of the infamous German-American Nazis group known as the Bund, ignited a mass protest where over 100,000 angry New Yorkers flooded the streets.Filmmaker Marshall Curry and the documentary project Field of Vision released the chilling forgotten footage on Vimeo last week:Field of Vision - A Night at the Garden from Field of Vision on Vimeo.The video depicts thousands people giving the Nazi salute to the American flag and portrait of George Washington. Eventually, Fritz Kuhn takes the podium, and makes a speech about &quot;American patriots&quot; with &quot;American ideals.&quot; He also attacks the press for how he and his followers are represented. Hm.At about 3:50 into the video, a protester rushes the podium, and is beat down and thrown off stage by soldiers. According to Curry, the protester was a 26-year-old plumber&#39;s helper from Brooklyn named Isadore Greenbaum.He was arrested for disorderly conduct and later fined.&quot;A friend of mine told me about it last year, and I couldn&#39;t believe that I&#39;d never heard of it. When I found out that it had been filmed, I asked an archival researcher, Rich Remsberg, to see what he could find,&quot; Curry told local New York City newspaper The Gothamist. &quot;It turned out that short clips had been used in history documentaries before, but no one seemed to have collected together all of the scraps of footage &mdash; there was some at the National Archives, some at UCLA&#39;s archive, some at other places. So he gathered it, and I edited it together into a short narrative. When Charlottesville happened, it began to feel urgent.&quot;

Recently released footage from 1939 shows approximately 20,000 American Nazis staging a &quot;Pro-America&quot; rally in Madison Square Garden in New York City.  The rally, organized by Fritz Kuhn, leader of the infamous German-American...