Hitler's LI Legion In 1936, a seemingly bucolic Yaphank retreat makes Nazism a homegrown concern by David Behrens (NewsDay.com, LIHistory.com) In the summer of 1936, the still-distant threat of Nazism cast an unexpected shadow across the hinterlands of Long Island. (snip) On Long Island, Nazism invaded Yaphank in the form of a summer retreat called Camp Siegfreid. Located on a wooded lakefront near the mid-Suffolk village, the camp was ostensibly a summer place for youngsters and a weekend campground for adults. In reality it was more dangerous -- a project sponsored by the German-American Bund, which had been established to...