Choosing Madison Square Garden as the New York City venue to showcase Donald Trump’s vengeful and divisive rhetoric had already evoked connections to the pro-Nazi rally held in the same location in 1939. But who Trump chose to platform at the event Sunday, and what they said, suggested that the comparisons weren’t far off.

For a venue that celebrates its history, there's no hiding the shame that the biggest Nazi rally in US history took place in the Garden in 1939 - just months before the outbreak of the Second World War.