CAMP SIEGFRIED, LONG ISLAND’S NAZI SUMMER RETREAT
NEW YORK — On Sundays, scores of German-Americans living in New York City in the 1930s dressed in German folk costumes and boarded the Long Island Railroad’s “Camp Siegfried Special,” eager to spend a day in the town of Yaphank, Long Island.
Latter half of the 1930s, 19 Nazi summer camps and family retreats operated across the United States, from New York to California. The camps were set up to indoctrinate children & adults with Nazi ideology.