American Experience | Trailer | Nazi Town, USA | Season 36 | Episode 1

In ever increasing numbers, the nations youth has been going away to camp.

In the 1930s, there were these camps all across the country and they looked normal, but it wasn't normal.

It was Nazi camp.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

In the depths of the Depression.

A great many Americans started to ask themselves whether the American experiment was failing.

Lots of Americans thought that capitalism, democracy they were done for and something else was going to have to take its place The membership card in the Friends of the New German Note the American emblem and over it the Nazi swastika.

as foreign as this might seem, fascist ideology tapped into some dark realities in America.

I'd like to tell you a few words about our purpose and aims.

He imagined that he was going to build a distinctively American version of Nazism.

Theyre after power, theyre after influence, within the very fabric of the United States They were literally holding parades in front of of Jewish peoples homes.

There's no such thing as foreign fascism.

Fascism is always home grown.

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