1930s America knew how to treat American Nazis.

[sir pball]

I'm OP'ing this because it's an awesomely hilarious story, I think most of you will get as good a laugh out of it as I did.

There was an open Nazi-American group in the 1930s, the German-American Bund. They were getting pretty big in NYC, to the point of hosting rallies in Madison Square Garden. A retired Congressman and sitting NYC judge, Nathan Perlman, decided he was fed up with this bullshit and acted in the most drastic manner possible. He called Meyer Lansky, one of the biggest Mafia figures of the time, and asked him “You got some boys who might want to punch a Nazi?” His only condition: “I want you to do anything but kill them.”

This is what followed:

Lansky’s crew broke into three groups: Outside, five racketeers with baseball bats and pool cues waited to pound fleeing Nazis; on the second floor, five more planned on attacking from on high; and in the back of the casino ballroom sat Lansky and friends, Jewish men who listened to ugly speeches briefly before randomly unleashing haymakers. The gangsters attacked from three sides and 15 bouts of fisticuffs ensued, and although the gangsters were far outnumbered by the more than 3,000 Nazis, it wasn’t a fair fight — most Bund members cowered in fear, while the gangsters dealt in violence every day.
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When it was over, Benson writes, “scattered about were injured Nazis. So much blood.” Some lay unconscious after their heads were pummeled, others with compound fractures of the limbs. The gangsters’ only challenge was not killing anyone, which they barely accomplished: After beating one mouthy Bund member into semi-consciousness, “Buggsy” and Drucker tossed the man out a second-story window. He survived, but his leg was shattered. Afterward, Lansky and company dropped their weapons and the American Legion hats they wore for cover and slipped into the night, never fingered for the assault — exactly as Lansky hoped, the next day The New York Times blamed the melee on the Legion.

Judge Perlman had offered Lansky compensation for the work, but Lansky refused. “I need no pay, Judge,” Lansky told him. “I am a Jew, and I feel for the Jews in Europe who are suffering.”

Lansky didn’t want help, either. When his boyhood friend “Lucky” Luciano offered his Italian thugs to assist in the “ass-whippings,” he demurred.

“It’s a job for Jews,” he explained.

After that raid, Perlman was so impressed that he called Al Capone in Chicago, Bugsy Myers (Jewish!) in LA, and other regional mob bosses, to get their Jewish men on the job of beating Nazis across the country. There would be zero repercussions, as the Mob owned the police at the time. It made openly being a Nazi in America very dangerous.

I really can't say anything bad about this.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/bam-kapow-when-1930s-jewish-mobsters-beat-up-nazis-in-the-streets-of-america/

[TheRealNorth]

1. That's kind of what we have now...

Except in reverse- it is the Fascists/white Nationalists that own the police.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

2. Anti-fascists in action.