- Yaphank in Long Island was founded in part by the German American Bund, a pro Nazi group that flourished in the 1930s
- They established Camp Siegfried in 1935 as a place for like-minded Aryans to drink beer, hold military demonstrations and learn about eugenics
- Yaphank remains a town in Long Island, but gone are the roads once called Adolf Hitler Street, Goebbels and Goering
"Someone who does not know the difference between good and evil is worth nothing." – Miecyslaw Kasprzyk, Polish rescuer of Jews during the Holocaust, New York Times, Jan. 30, 2005
Friday, April 10, 2015
The town that fascism built: Inside the New York hamlet that once was home to a pro-Nazi camp and a street named after Hitler
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