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Funding ‘Gangsters vs. Nazis’: A journey

JL;DR SUMMARY Executive producer Bruce David Klein discusses the production of a documentary film about Jewish gangsters who combated American Nazis in the lead-up to World War II, a historically rich story based on a best-selling book. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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FundraisingJewish GangstersMoral DilemmaMeyer LanskyVisual StorytellingGerman American BundAmerican NazisBruce David KleinAtlas Media Corp

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Brooklyn, New York, United States
"Brooklyn Judge Nathan D. Perlman, alarmed by the rise of the German-American Bund (i.e. American Nazis), built a network of Jewish gangsters to break up Nazi meetings and make it dangerous to be a Nazi in America."
New York, United States
"brutal confrontations between Jewish gangsters and American Nazis, spreading from New York to L.A. and from Newark to Chicago."
Long Island, New York, United States
"Nazi groups openly marched, rallied and attended summer camps like Camp Siegfried on Long Island that, among other important skills, taught Nazi saluting."
L.A., California, United States
"brutal confrontations between Jewish gangsters and American Nazis, spreading from New York to L.A. and from Newark to Chicago."
Chicago, Illinois, United States
"brutal confrontations between Jewish gangsters and American Nazis, spreading from New York to L.A. and from Newark to Chicago."
Newark, New Jersey, United States
"brutal confrontations between Jewish gangsters and American Nazis, spreading from New York to L.A. and from Newark to Chicago."
Germany
"One grant alone brought in $100,000 from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) as part of their incredible support of Shoah education and documentation."

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