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Camp Siegfried, a summer camp which taught Nazi ideology, was located in Yaphank, New York, on Long Island. [1] [2] [3] It was owned by the German American Bund, an American Nazi organization devoted to promoting a favorable view of Nazi Germany, and was operated by the German American Settlement League (GASL).
German American Bund parade on East 86th St., New York City, October 30, 1937. On March 19, 1936, the German American Bund was established as a follow-up organization for the Friends of New Germany in Buffalo, New York. [7] [18] The Bund elected a German-born American citizen Fritz Julius Kuhn as its leader (Bundesführer). [19]
Internment of German resident aliens and German-American citizens occurred in the United States during the periods of World War I and World War II. During World War II, the legal basis for this detention was under Presidential Proclamation 2526 , made by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt under the authority of the Alien Enemies Act .
Camp Nordland in a Bund publication. Camp Nordland was a 204-acre (83 ha) resort facility located in Andover Township, New Jersey. From 1937 to 1941, this site was owned and operated by the German American Bund, which sympathized with and propagandized for Nazi Germany in the United States. This resort camp was opened by the Bund on 18 July 1937.
In the twentieth century, the Amerika-Deutscher Volksbund, or German-American Bund as it is commonly referred to, constructed a youth camp on Federal Hill called Camp Bergwald. The camp was active during the interwar period, amidst a resurgence in German nationalism in the United States due to Adolf Hitler's ascent to power in Germany in 1934. [5]
By March 1936, Friends of New Germany was dissolved and its membership transferred to the newly-formed German American Bund, the new name being chosen to emphasise the group's American credentials after press criticism that the organisation was unpatriotic. [17] The Bund was to consist only of American citizens of German descent. [18]
However, in March 1936, the German American Bund was established in Buffalo as a follow-up organization. [8] The Bund elected the German-born American citizen Kuhn as its leader. [9] Kuhn, while describing the Bund as "sympathetic to the Hitler government", denied that the organization received money or took orders from the government of Germany.
The German American Bund, led by Fritz Kuhn, was formed in 1936 and lasted until America formally entered World War II in 1941. The Bund existed with the goal of a united America under ethnic German rule and following Nazi ideology. It proclaimed communism as their main enemy and expressed anti-Semitic attitudes. [4]