The First Amendment and 1930s American Nazis | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

Learn why the German American Bund, a pro-Nazi organization and one of the largest fascist groups in the United States during the 1930s, was allowed to march, hold massive rallies, and defy state laws prohibiting hate speech in these clips excerpted from AMERICAN EXPERIENCE. While most Americans opposed the racist, anti-Semitic, and pro-Nazi agenda of the German American Bund, groups like the American Civil Liberties Union defended Bund members’ rights to free speech, press, and assembly as established in the First Amendment.