Gangsters vs. Nazis: How Jewish Mobsters Battled Nazis in WW2 Era America

by Michael Benson

Once evil is invited in, tremendous effort is required to show it to the door and kick its cloven hoof off the threshold. —E. A. BUCCHIANERI

fascism is the belief that a dictatorial leader is preferable to an elected one because many voters are enemies of the people and need to be oppressed.

By 1933, there were more than one hundred anti-Semitic groups in the US, functioning openly and in evangelical mode.

Arno’s army eventually numbered close to a thousand. If necessary, they could defend the city in case of an attempted takeover.

Arno’s army called themselves the Anti-Nazi Minutemen of America, the Minutemen for short, in homage to the Revolutionary

“There can be no more potent breeder of public disorder, than a deliberate stirring up of class against class, and race against race. This undermines the patriotic unity of our nation, and is in direct opposition to that tolerance of race and religion which our constitution provides for, and which is a distinguishing feature of the fundamental law of our land, one of its great cornerstones essential to the peace and safety of any community.”

To control the message coming out of Tinseltown was to, dare he say it, rule the world.

In 1935, the state senate proposed a bill that would “prohibit all paupers, vagabonds, and indigent persons” from entering the city. The bill, had it passed, would have allowed authorities to kick out anyone who was likely to one day need public assistance.