Ever hear of Yaphank, NY? 60 miles from NYC, has a Nazi past

Read this on the Daily Mail UK. An entire town of Nazi sympathizers? Made up of German-Americans, the streets were once named after Hitler and others. I couldn't find the date that this town was established. Although past relics have been erased, a woman trying to sell her home there is experiencing some deep rooted surprises. The pictures are haunting. Has anyone heard of this town? 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3311303/New-York-s-Nazi-town-years-streets-named-Hitler-Goebbels-hedges-trimmed-swastikas-Aryan-live-there.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/20/nyregion/query-for-home-buyers-in-a-long-island-hamlet-are-you-german.html

Can't believe it has not been challenged by a potential buyer quite a while ago. Can not see any chance it will not be ruled invalid given current law.

The big problem they will not be able to get past is they don't even own the land; it is a kind of co-op. So, even if the repressive rules about marketing and scrutiny change, anyone buying in will only be buying a tiny house and no land. That's not what most buyers want in suburban Long Island. 

I also find it strange the Kneers didn't have a clue about any of this when they bought. They were attracted by the low price, but it seems to me they knew what they were getting into. They failed to think ahead.

That said, I'm horrified that this happened about 20 miles from where I grew up and I never heard a whisper about it. There are some odd pockets of total bizarreness on Long Island. But this bit of history is truly shameful. I hope the lawsuit forces the group to change its bylaws and behavior. Time is what is needed to change what's left of the attitude.

You don't have to go to NY, there's plenty of Nazi history right here in the area. Head west about 30 miles. 

http://www.northjersey.com/community-news/historian-discusses-area-bund-camp-1.1133105?page=all

There were Nazis even closer to home, in Newark:  http://www.amazon.com/Nazis-Newark-Warren-Grover/dp/0765805162/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1447173459&sr=8-1&keywords=newark+nazis

The UK media loves to revel in our foibles, especially the Guardian and Daily Mail.  We serve as a distraction for them from their own weirdness.  

"Yip, Yip, Yaphank!"  was written by Irving Berlin when he was stationed at Camp Upton in Yaphank in 1918.

My mother used to be scared while playing in Maplecrest Park as a child, of Nazis from Irvington coming to harass people there:

Nazi Meetings Are Banned in Irvington

May 24, 1934.  Irvington, N. J. (May. 23) [Jewish Telegraphic Agency]

As an aftermath of the riot here yesterday between Nazi and anti Nazi sympathizers, Director of Public Safety Edward Balentine today announced the banning of all Nazi or anti-Nazi meetings in this town.
This is a blow to the Nazi cells in Irvington, which has been a hotbed of Nazi activity.

Sixty people are in various hospitals as a result of the riot a checkup today revealed. The most seriously injured is Jack Aronowitz, of Newark, who is in the Newark Beth Israel Hospital with concussion of the brain. He is out on $25 bail, charged with disorderly conduct. Robert Michelis, a Nazi, is in the Irvington General Hospital with a torn arm, having been hit with a claw hammer.

Five of the New Yorkers held following the riot are out on bail of $1,000 each. They were among the forty to fifty Nazis who came to Irvington in a bus to take part in a pro-Hitler meeting. They are booked on open charges and will be arraigned Friday night before Police Recorder Thomas J. Holleran.
Of the Jews arrested, two who were charged with disorderly conduct are out on $25 bail. They are Harry Schwartz and Louis Halper. Jerome Rodberg, charged with having smashed a photographer’s camera, is out on $500 bail.

A secret service investigation into the riot is going on here now under the direction of F. W. Morris of the Department of Justice Mr. Morris has been conferring with Director of Public Safety Ballentine and with acting police chief Ruban, in an endeavor to find out whether the Nazi activities here were part of a studied policy of the Hitler government in Berlin.

The largest single country of ancestry for Americans is Germany. That is not widely known.

My old neighbor on my ex-street was very proud of her German American heritage. She and her husband were very rock and roller, riding Harley's on the weekends with their "gang" on the weekends types, but extremely kind and very neighborly. Def one of those couples who would be judged by their cover. All that to say is that my ex-neighbor used to tell me these whack stories about her German dad growing up in Newark. She said that he was a take charge, no nonsense man who cracked heads and fought the police. I asked was he ever arrested, and she said he wasn't because he was in "The Party." I didn't ask questions as I knew what she meant from the stories she told. I to have to assume that this influence didn't rub off on her as again, she was extremely tolerant and kind to all. Happy when these things skip a generation. 

It is worth remembering that Fascism and Communism were popular in the 1930's at a time when capitalism was in a state of collapse.  In the case, of Hitler, his popularity was largely due to the fact that he restored jobs and pride to Germans.  For a long time, I don't think most Germans (many Jews included) really thought he would take his anti-Semitism to the extreme.  Being pro-Nazi in, say, 1936 is entirely different from being pro-Nazi after 1945.