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19 paź 2016 · Camp Hinderburg was established in Grafton, Wisconsin just outside of Milwaukee. A large percentage of the Wisconsin population at the time was of German descent so this camp was popular to many families.
13 mar 2017 · In fact, southeastern Wisconsin was home to two camps run by an American Nazi group, called the German-American Bund. Grafton was where the Bund’s Camp Hindenburg was located.
28 kwi 2015 · And Camp Hindenburg in Grafton, Wis. — near Milwaukee — was another site of Nazi youth and family camps.
8 sty 2017 · You Know You're From Grafton, Wisconsin. Excerpt of full story: "And Camp Hindenburg in Grafton, Wis. — near Milwaukee — was another site of Nazi youth and family camps. "Children dressed in Nazi uniforms and drilled military-style, with marching, inspections, and flag-raising ceremonies," Mark D. Van Ells of City University of New York ...
In the late 1930s, a group of pro-Nazi German-Americans affiliated with the German American Bund purchased land on the Milwaukee River in the Town of Grafton. They ran a private camp called Camp Hindenburg, and hosted a speech by Nazi-supporter Fritz Julius Kuhn in 1939. The camp closed with the outbreak of World War II in 1941.
17 mar 2017 · That summer it opened Camp Hindenburg (named after the top German commander in the First World War and former German president) on the banks of the Milwaukee River near Grafton, where swastikas were proudly displayed alongside the American flag.
12 sty 2024 · The Bund held joint rallies with the Ku Klux Klan and ran dozens of summer camps for children centered around Nazi ideology and imagery, including Camp Hindenburg in Wisconsin. Its melding of patriotic values with virulent anti-Semitism raises thorny issues that we continue to wrestle with today.
