{"id":2146,"date":"2018-12-10T11:38:58","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T19:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=2146"},"modified":"2018-12-10T11:38:58","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T19:38:58","slug":"the-night-thousands-of-nazis-packed-madison-square-garden-for-a-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/12\/10\/the-night-thousands-of-nazis-packed-madison-square-garden-for-a-rally\/","title":{"rendered":"The night thousands of Nazis packed Madison Square Garden for a rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tLest we forget &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/history\/2018\/12\/09\/night-thousands-nazis-packed-madison-square-garden-rally-violence-erupted\/?utm_term=.88c82d595291\">The night thousands of Nazis packed Madison Square Garden for a rally \u2014 and violence erupted<\/a> from the Washington Post Retropolis column, December 9, 2018.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nOn Feb. 20, 1939, 22,000 members of the German American Bund, a pro-Nazi group, took over the venue that stars still consider a peak achievement if you can fill it up. That night, it was a full house for Bund leader Fritz Kuhn, who had become a household name as the \u201cAmerican Hitler. \u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/resizer\/1mMV2miCcoDlyIKYaJnI0azWsjQ=\/480x0\/arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/DPNPEKHX4QI6RBSCZFYYUJLMXU.jpg\" alt=\"Fritz Kuhn\" \/>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lest we forget &#8230; The night thousands of Nazis packed Madison Square Garden for a rally \u2014 and violence erupted from the Washington Post Retropolis column, December 9, 2018. On Feb. 20, 1939, 22,000 members of the German American Bund, a pro-Nazi group, took over the venue that stars still consider a peak achievement if &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/12\/10\/the-night-thousands-of-nazis-packed-madison-square-garden-for-a-rally\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14,17],"tags":[174,338,717,752,909,957,968,1020,1172,1187,1245,1364,1557,1658,1706],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"has-excerpt","5":"post-2146","7":"format-standard","8":"category-politics","9":"category-racism","10":"category-thinking-about","11":"post_tag-anti-semitism","12":"post_tag-camp-siegfried","13":"post_tag-fritz-kuhn","14":"post_tag-german-american-bund","15":"post_tag-joe-allen","16":"post_tag-la-guardia","17":"post_tag-laguardia","18":"post_tag-madison-square-garden","19":"post_tag-nazi","20":"post_tag-new-york-daily-news","21":"post_tag-ordnungsdienst","22":"post_tag-pro-nazi","23":"post_tag-sieg-heil","24":"post_tag-swastika-nation-fritz-kuhn-and-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-german-american-bund","25":"post_tag-thomas-dewey"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}