Hey, history lovers. I'm Mike Rosenwald with RetroPod. A show about the past, rediscovered.

Welcome to opening up here at Madison Square Garden. The world's the famous arena.

Madison Square Garden in New York City has been the venue for some of the most memorable performances this country has ever seen.

Tor.

Music.

You name it.

My father and son and the holy spirit.

Even Pope Francis has played the garden.

But one long ago performance has largely been forgotten.

The next speaker, we love him for the enemies he has made.

That happened on February 20, 1939, when the so-called American Hitler took the stage.

Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Fritz Cune.

Fritz Cune was the leader of the pro-Nazi group known as the German-American Boone.

He was a hero to his audience and a scourge on the world to most others.

You all have heard of me through the Jewish control press

as a creature with horns, a clophen hoof, and a long tail. As he spoke to the packed arena about despising Jews,

banners of hatred waved from the rafters.

Wake up, America, one said.

Smash Jewish Communism.

The stage featured a 30-foot-tall portrait of George Washington surrounded by

American and swastika-bearing booned flags. Laughing, cheering, the crowd hung on his every word,

showing their support for him and Hitler with arms outstretched in a sea of Nazi salutes.

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