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

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Published: 00:28 EST, 10 April 2015 | Updated: 06:34 EST, 10 April 2015

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Nestled in eastern Long Island is a sleepy little town called Yaphank where the streets have cozy names like Oak and Park, names that hide a dark past: they once bore signs like Hitler andGoebbels Streets.

Yaphank, in the 1930s, appeared as a haven for Americans--most of them of German heritage--who sympathized with the causes of the Third Reich.

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.

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Inside the New York hamlet that once was home to a pro-Nazi camp