(Times of Israel) Cathryn J. Prince - Throughout the latter half of the 1930s, 19 Nazi summer camps and family retreats operated across the U.S. Sponsored by the German-American Bund, the camps were set up to indoctrinate children and adults with Nazi ideology. "The camps basically had everything the Hitler Youth camps had in Germany. Their uniforms were similar, right down to the Sam Brown belts and swastikas on the arms," said Arnie Bernstein, author of the 2014 book, Swastika Nation: Fritz Kuhn and the Rise and Fall of the German-American Bund. In 1939, Bund leader Fritz Kuhn was sentenced to prison for tax evasion and embezzlement. At the same time, the FBI raided the camps and shut them down for subversive activities.
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