[esarlls3]

Never heard of this before.

[Semper Paratus]

Camp Siegfreid!?

[EggsAckley]

Camp Siegfried in 1937, Newsday article

Scary stuff.

[Vaquero]

yeah...its true. I believe the name of Lindenhurst was Breslau before the war and was changed to take away some of the image. I knew one of those old Nazi's who owned a tavern for clam diggers in Lindenhurst back in the mid to late 1970's. He would get drunk and feed you free shots of Jägermeister if you would stay and listen to him talk about the glory days. He reminded me of the Nazi who wrote Springtime for Hitler in the move "the Producers"(I only know the movie...never saw the play), only without the helmet(or is it Helmut?).

[Clemenza]

Being a Long Island boy, I learned about this in elementary school when we did our Long Island history month lessons. I also know that Franklin Square, a mere two towns away from my hometown, was a stronghold of the German American bund.

There was another camp similar to Camp Siegfried in Budd Lake, NJ, but I forget the name.

[WKUHilltopper]

Yep, I knew about it...and I live in Kentucky, not NY! But then again, I study history stuff.

[blau993]

A lot of this stuff is overblown. The Bund was a big organization in the 30s, and there were a number of these summer camps for German-American kids. However, while some of the top guys in the Bund were committed Nazis and either fled to Germany or were interned during WWII, there is no evidence of German-Americans sabotaging the war effort or refusing to fight because they had been indoctinated at Bund camp. My grandmother grew up in the Frankford section of Philadelphia, which was home to a big German-American community. She saw lots of neighborhood boys go off to Bund camp in the 30s, and, as she put it, she watched those same boys go off to the US Army and Navy and Marines in the 40s.

[Little Ray]

There was also a fascist movement in the US, the Silver Legion, led by William Dudley Pelley. Try looking 'em up in the Wikipedia.

[wtc911]

Very old news....known about it for years. In fact there is a Germantown Street just north of the LIE in Yaphank.

[tutstar]

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