(1937) Camp Siegfried
This is from a pamphlet advertising a Nazi youth camp in Yaphank, Long Island, organized by Fritz Kuhn’s German-American Bund, where as many as 40,000 sympathizers cavorted in an idyllic setting (see the image), where the boulevards were named “Hitler Street,” “Himmler Street,” and so on. The camp’s rolls swelled every Sunday when residents of Manhattan’s upper East Side Yorkville district and other Metropolitan German-American neighborhoods poured onto “Camp Siegfried Special” trains which left Penn Station at 8 a.m. bound for Yaphank. Infiltrators and later defectors spoke of discussions of sabotage taking place there, and when four Nazi agents were arrested in the early days of the war attempting to land on the Amagansett beach (5 miles east of East Hampton), three of them were revealed, not too surprisingly, to have been Camp Siegfried alumni.
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