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Peter Yost wanted to capture a moment in history with his latest documentary project. In Feb. 1939, more than 20,000 Americans filled Madison Square Garden for an event billed as a “Pro-American Rally ...

A new AMERICAN EXPERIENCE film tells the largely unknown story of the German American Bund, a pro-Nazi group that was active across the United States in the 1930s, promulgating virulent antisemitism ...

In the 1930s, American Nazis looked to Berlin for inspiration. The German-American Bund held torchlit rallies in New York, ...

Children gathered in the greenery of Sussex and Passaic counties more than 80 years ago to frolic at summer camp. “In ever-increasing numbers, the nation’s youth has been going away to camp,” a 1930s ...

If a nationwide vote were taken to discover the most despised politico-social organization currently extant, the Amerikadeutscher Volksbund would stand at least a fair chance of winning. A group of ...

WINDHAM — It’s a clear day in 1937, and a group of young boys are exercising, swimming and wrestling at what seems to be a typical summer camp in the Catskill Mountains. When it’s time for the flag ...

The Bund held joint rallies with the Ku Klux Klan and ran dozens of summer camps for children centered around Nazi ideology and imagery. Its melding of patriotic values with virulent anti-Semitism ...