New York Post

The Nazis among us

- Cindy Adams

PAY attention. Exists a Long Island Suffolk County town — maybe 10 minutes from the Hamptons synagogue — that was once called NAZI TOWN USA!

UntappedCi­ties.com even lists its now-renamed “Adolf

Hitler Street.” Also streets named for Goebbels and Göring — both of whom committed suicide, Göring just in advance of his Nuremberg death sentence.

Documents in Yaphank, LI, detail this wooded lakefront town. Penn Station’s weekend summer train went direct to Yaphank. A PBS doc also exists, airing on “American Experience,” called “Nazi Town, USA.”

There were 15 such German-American summer camps. Little towheads stood at attention as the Bund flag was lowered. Children learned about goose-stepping, Nazi ideology, hatred of Jews. Who can believe our government still allows such a place to exist?! It’s 50ish families in German Gardens.

In the ’30s it was Nazifilled Camp Siegfried. It was Hitler-loving German owners. A pro Nazi German-American bund flourished there. Children learned about “the master race.” A phrase once attached to it had been: “A white neighborho­od stays white.”

OK?

Research tells us years back the German American Settlement League, which owns this neighborho­od, was sued. They now disavow Germanonly, but still own all the land.

Anybody mentioned this to ex-Gov. Cuomo?

Or Gov. Kathy Hochul?

Or anybody?

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