Lest we forget … The night thousands of Nazis packed Madison Square Garden for a rally — 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 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 “American Hitler. ”