article_snippet.sent: In fact, it was largely founded as a Nazi camp, one of several scattered across the U.S., where the children in the German American Bund (AKA American Nazis) could fish, swim, hunt and learn about things like eugenics.
article_snippet.sent: Camp Siegfried was founded by the American Nazi group, the German American Bund.
article_snippet.sent: the American Nazi group, the German American Bund set up pro-Nazi camps where the American Nazi group, the German American Bund could put on military demonstrations, teach the American Nazi group, the German American Bund children about fascism and enjoy the outdoors .
article_snippet.sent: the American Nazi group, the German American Bund went on to become the German American Bund.
article_snippet.sent: The Bund in Yaphank in Long Island, as the American Nazi group, the German American Bund did in similar communities in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and New Jersey, organized military demonstrations where they waved both the American and Nazi flags.
article_snippet.sent: Stony Brook University historian Ryan Shaffer writes that 'support for Nazi Germany in the United States was a unique blend of German and American ideology rather than just a foreign import.'
article_snippet.sent: However, members had to be Aryan and were united in members belief that those with German blood would lead America into a 'new era.'
article_snippet.sent: Things fell apart for the Bund in 1941 after the U.S. declared war on Germany and open support of Hitler became criminal.
article_snippet.sent: the Bund's leader Fritz Julius Kuhn was imprisoned for tax evasion and embezzling and the group faded into obscurity.