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After the Capitol riot, it’s time for New Jersey politicians even some considered moderate to take stock of the extremism they have allowed to fester.
An article from the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Amy Rosenberg offers cause for reflection. Officials in
N.J.’s forgotten history of hate | Opinion
Updated Jan 25, 2021;
Posted Jan 24, 2021
Arlene Stein, a sociology professor at Rutgers University, says today, as thousands openly espouse violent racist and anti-Semitic beliefs and our now former president mobilizes them to wield power, we should not forget that white supremacist and fascist-inspired movements have been a recurrent part of our history. In July 1937, nearly 1,000 members of the German-American Bund wear swastika armbands and carry Nazi banners as they parade during the opening of Camp Nordland in Sussex County, New Jersey. (AP Photo)AP
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By Arlene Stein
At a summer camp in northwest New Jersey, cabins surround a lake. A photograph from 1937 shows hundreds of teenage boys dressed in light brown shirts and shorts, and girls in white blouses and black skirts carrying flags. At first, it looks like a typical summer camp of that era. But on a closer look, one sees pressed uniforms, lockstep marching, and
New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (neg. no. LC-USZ62-117148)
Anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi elements in the United States generally supported the Bund. The Bund included self-designated storm troopers, who affected the uniforms of the German Nazi SA. Mass rallies were held at such sites as Madison Square Garden in New York City. In 1939 the Bund’s total membership was about 20,000.
In 1939 the Bund’s national leader, Fritz Julius Kuhn, was prosecuted for grand larceny (misappropriating Bund money) and forgery; in 1940 its national secretary, James Wheeler-Hill, was convicted of perjury. After the United States’ entry into World War II, the Bund disintegrated.
where you could escape the city. celebrate german hir tage, dance, drink, at places like camp nordland in new jersey and camp zigfried in long island. the camps hidden as pro-german/pro-american, were attended by adults and families. on the outside they looked like any other camp and children were indoctrinated in ideals of naziism, breeding young americans to become full-fledged nazis. they were taught of their aryan roots. the anti-nazi protests increased including other americans who hated the nazi image. instead of quieting down, the leader fritz coon decided to hold the largest rally in their history. madison square garden. the american nazis showed their true colors, beating a