What do we learn about “American fascism” from these short documentaries?

2 Documentaries
* A Night at the Garden
A Night at The Garden on Vimeo (Links to an external site.)
* Charlottesville: Race and Terror
Charlottesville: Race and Terror VICE News Tonight on HBO – YouTube

Primary Source Reading: Mein Kampf by Hitler (on Modules)

Questions:
1) What do we learn about “American fascism” from these short documentaries?
2) How do these documentaries show fascism in an American context? What is uniquely “American” about it?
3) Do these documentaries make the case that fascism should be taken seriously in America?
4) What are some of the main ideas in Mein Kampf? What do we learn about Hitler?
5) Choose 2 quotes from the reading to analyze and explain their importance.

Mein Kampf
Common blood belongs in one common realm.

Foreign people came in and poisoned the body of our nation.

[The two main dangers to Germanys existence are] Marxism and Jewry.

The Jew is the driving force behind the destruction of Germany.

By standing guard against the Jew, I am defending the work of the Lord.

[The Jews] whole existence is a denial of the beauty of Gods creation.

Never forget that the highest purpose of mans existence is the
preservation of his own kind and not the maintenance of a state or
government. The state is a race based organization and not an economic
organization.”

When people are fighting for their existence on this planet and are
faced with the fatal question to be or not to be, all considerations
of humanness or appearances crumble into nothing.

A nation that works to cultivate its best racial elements during
this era of race poisoning is bound to someday become the lord of the
earth.

History has always shown that those who rose above the average
level did so through the driving force of an individual personality.

A majority cannot replace a man. A majority always represents stupidity and cowardice.

Intolerance is absolutely indispensable for the growth of any faith.

In any age of history, the qualities of a truly great and popular
leader consisted on focusing on a single adversary and not distracting
the peoples attention. The more unified the peoples will to fight a
single object, the greater the magnetic attraction a political movement
will have.

A number of opponents must always be lumped together so that in the
eyes of ones own followers, the battle is fought against one single
enemy.

For me, only nationalism existed.

Germany will either be a world power or cease to exist.

[Nature] has no hesitation and wipes out what is weak in order to give a rightful place to the strong.

In eternal battle, mankind can find greatness; in eternal peace, it will find destruction.

the survival of a species depends on its willingness to sacrifice the individual.

We must not let political frontiers distract us from the frontiers
of Eternal-Justice. If this Earth really has room for everyone, we
should have under our feet the land we need to exist[and] what is
denied in peaceful friendship must be taken by forceIf European soil
was the objective, it could be acquired primarily at the expense of
Russia.Who is willing to regain the lost territories by armed force?

Before one can conquer foreign enemies, the enemy within must first be annihilated.

To those who are weak in nature, it can only be said that this is a simple question of survival or non-survival.

Jews are a disease worse than the Black Death of ancient daysThese
slimy creaturespoison the people with their disease.The actual
creators of this national disease must have been true devils.

I believe the founding or destruction of a religion is a far greater matter than the founding or destruction of a State.

Nature knows no political boundaries. She simply deposits life on
this globe and watches what happens. The boldest and most industrious of
her children becomes her favorite and is made the Lord over Creation.

People dont die for business, but for ideals.

No state has ever been created by establishing a peaceful economy.

In political matters, decisions are based more on feeling than understanding.

Propaganda is merely another weapon, a very frightening one, in the hands of an expert.

We must fight to assure the existence and the growth of our race
and our nation. We must feed our children and keep our blood pure.

In a universe where planets revolve around greater suns, moons
revolve around their greater planets, where the strong are masters over
the weak; there can be no separate law for mankind.

The race that cannot stand the test will simply die and make room
for healthier, stronger races which can endure hardships more easily.

The sin against blood and race is the original sin of this world
and it will bring the end of any humanity which surrenders to it.

The great civilizations of the past have all been destroyed simply
because the original creative race died out as a result of pollution of
their blood lines.

All human culture, art, science, and invention which surround us
are almost exclusively the creative product of the Aryan (white) race.

There has never been any Jewish art and there is none todayThe Jew
lacks those qualities which distinguish that creative and culturally
favored race who are the founders of civilization, the Aryans.

We shouldnt be surprised if our people someday view the
personification of the Devil, the symbol of all evil, as the Jew
himself.

A racially pure people, which is conscious of its blood, can never be defeated by the Jew.

Nationality, or rather race, is not in the language, but in the blood.

If an individual of a given higher race were to breed with one
racially inferior, the result would be a being of a lower level than the
upper race.

No boy or girl should leave school without possessing an ultimate
understanding of the importance in maintain the purity of their blood.

The Jew is the international maggot of nations.

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