The Rise of the Fourth Reich - ThereAreNoSunglasses

302 THE RISE OF THE FOURTH REICHInc. . . . The CIA has created a special scholarship program, for graduatestudents able and willing to obtain security clearances. According to theLondon Guardian, ‘the primary purpose of the program is to promotedisciplines that would be of use to intelligence agencies.’ And throughoutthe country, academics in several disciplines are undertaking research (oftensecret) for the CIA.”A M ER ICA N YOU T H W ER E educated in the principles of National Socialismbefore World War II.In 1935, Ernst Mueller, head of the German-American SettlementLeague, acquired lakeside property in Yaphank, Long Island, and invitedAmericans of German descent to visit and relax. He also formed a groupcalled the German-American Youth. The youth in Yaphank constructedtents on platforms, called Camp Siegfried. Gustave Neuss, the grandsonof German immigrants, whose father served as a judge in Yaphank, recalled:“Some of the parents complained about the harsh conditions andat least one removed her daughter from the camp because of this. Theregimen included education in pro-Nazi doctrine to ensure a new generationhaving the pure Aryan philosophy.” Neuss’s father initially wasfriendly with the German organi zation but soon turned against them becauseof their anti-Semitism and un-American speeches.The youth organization was part of the German-American Bund, ananti-Semitic fraternal group formed in the 1930s by a merger of the NationalSocialist German Workers Party and the Free Society of Teutonia.German-American Bund activity was not limited to Yaphank and theNew York City area. Neuss wrote: “Groups of the pro-Nazis were locatedthroughout the United States. Hitler’s claim was that after he had conqueredEurope he would then take over the USA. The Bund and otherpro-German groups located throughout the country provided a cadre ofsubversives to assist in such a takeover.”Although many German-American organizations existed in the prewarUnited States, the Bund was among the only ones to express supportfor Nazi ideals. In February 1939, Bund leader Fritz Kuhn addressed acrowd of about twenty thousand in Madison Square Garden and railed