Editing Yaphank, New York (section)

===Camp Siegfried and Nazism===
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In the 1930s, Yaphank was home to [[Camp Siegfried]], a summer camp that taught [[Nazi]] ideology.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://lihj.cc.stonybrook.edu/2010/articles/long-island-nazis-a-local-synthesis-of-transnational-politics/ |title=Long Island Nazis: A Local Synthesis of Transnational Politics |last1=Shaffer|first1= Ryan|date=Spring 2010 |work=Long Island History Journal |access-date=2012-02-05|volume=21|issue=2|issn=0898-7084}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.longwood.k12.ny.us/history/index.htm |title=The German American Bund |author=Neuss, Gustave |date=November 2002 |publisher=Longwood's Journey |access-date=2012-02-05}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Wunderlich's Salute: The Interrelationship of the German-American Bund, Camp Siegfried, Yaphank, Long Island, and the Young Siegfrieds and Their Relationship with American and Nazi Institutions |last=Miller |first=Marvin D |year=1983 |publisher=Malamud Rose Pubns |isbn=978-0-9610466-0-6 |pages=336 }}</ref> It was owned by the [[German American Bund]], an [[American Nazi]] organization devoted to promoting a favorable view of [[Nazi Germany]], and operated by the German American Settlement League (GASL).

Camp Siegfried was one of many such camps in the US in the 1930s, including Camp Hindenburg in [[Grafton, Wisconsin]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.americainwwii.com/stories/americansforhitler.html |title=Americans for Hitler |author=Van Ells, Mark D. |date=2007 |website=America in World War 2 |access-date=2012-02-05}}</ref> Camp Nordland in [[Andover, New Jersey]],<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/1930s_German-American_Bund_Nazis_Camp_Nordland_article |title=American Nazis in the 1930s |author=Staff |date=1938 |newspaper=Click Magazine |access-date=2012-02-05}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Nazis in Newark |last=Grover |first=Warren |year=2003 |publisher=Transaction Publishers |isbn=978-0-7658-0516-4 |pages=292 }}</ref> and Deutschhorst Country Club in [[Sellersville, Pennsylvania]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/230640/German-American-Bund |title=German-American Bund |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]] |access-date=2012-02-05}}</ref>

Until 2017, homes in the former Camp Siegfried area, on land that was owned by the German-American Settlement League, were under covenants restricting residents to those of German extraction only.<ref name="ap">Eltman, Fred (May 20, 2017) [http://m.sfgate.com/news/us/article/New-York-enclave-with-Nazi-roots-agrees-to-change-11160846.php "New York enclave with Nazi roots agrees to change policies"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170521113809/http://m.sfgate.com/news/us/article/New-York-enclave-with-Nazi-roots-agrees-to-change-11160846.php |date=2017-05-21}} [[Associated Press]]</ref>