Nazi Salute at Long Island Celebration
The second annual German Day for
Long Island drew nearly 25,000 Nazis from the metropolitan area to Camp
Siegfried at Yaphank yesterday. They are shown giving the Fatherland
salute in an atmosphere similar to the huge demonstration at the Templeh___
Airport in Berlin. Camp Siegfried is operated by the German American
Settlement Bund in New York.
30,000 German-Americans Attend
Rally at Yaphank
Speakers Deny Activities Are
Subsidized From Abroad
YAPHANK - Thirty thousand attended the second
annual Long Island German Day celebration at Camp Siegfried
yesterday, and heard the German government praised speakers who
denied activities at Camp Siegfried are unAmerican.
A delegation of 50
black-shirted Italian-Americans, headed by john Finzo, president of
the Circolo Mario Morgantini, and H.M. Melinkoff, president of the
Russian-Nationalist-American League, attended the exercises.
Speakers included
Ernst Muller, president of the German-American Settlement League,
sponsors of the camp; Fritz, president of the German-American Bund,
Finzo and Melinkoff.
Muller declared:
“Much publicity has been given to our activities. It has been
charged that they were financed by foreign governments seeking to
overthrow the existing regime in the United States. These charges
are utterly untrue. They are advanced by a destructive group of
un-American elements that we have come to consider the most
dangerous menace to the future welfare of our country.”
He spoke in German.