A couple of points of context. The rally was organized by the "German American Bund," an organization that Nazi Germany had distanced itself from before the Ma

A couple of points of context. The rally was organized by the "German American Bund," an organization that Nazi Germany had distanced itself from before the Madison Square Garden rally: On March 1, 1938 the Nazi government decreed that no Reichsdeutsche [German nationals] could be a member of the Bund, and that no Nazi emblems were to be used by the organization. This was done both to appease the U.S. and to distance Germany from the Bund, which was increasingly a cause of embarrassment with its rhetoric and actions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_American_Bund https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_American_Bund This was not a mass movement by any stretch, but seemed instead to be centered around a group of German-American immigrants. The video depicts a Pledge of Allegiance ceremony that lacks the phrase "under God" because it was added in 1942: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_Allegiance_(United_States)#Addition_of_.22under_God.22 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_Allegiance_(United_S...