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# When the ‘American Hitler’ Came to Washington
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/mossbacks-northwest-2/episode/when-the-american-hitler-came-to-washington-cluemt/
- Published: 2024-04-02T23:10:11.000Z
- Updated: 2025-10-10T11:09:05.000Z
- Description: Knute Berger explores the dark history of the Silver Shirts, a fascist splinter group.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: Mossback's Northwest, Season 1, Episode 6, #ZZZ_Episode_0e1bcd55-5104-42e2-8da7-120dbbf96274, #episode, #ZZZ_Show_50744e68-2011-417f-9f73-f880b010d33f, #v1.16

Knute Berger explores the dark history of the Silver Shirts, a fascist splinter group that fielded a presidential candidate William Dudley Pelley in 1936\. The only state where the group's candidate of choice was able to get on the ballot? Washington.