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German-American Bund Opens Summer Camp Near Andover
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- Swastikas Flourish as 800 Members of New Jersey Division of 'Nazi Friends' Gather at 100-acre Tract
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- Monday, July 19, 1937
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- Andover, July 19.—"'Heils" echo and swastikas flourish at the 100-acre Summer camp of the New Jersey division of the German-American Bund which opened here yesterday.
Wearing swastika armbands and German World War medals, more than 8000 members of the bund arrived at Camp Nordland by special train, chartered buses and private automobiles.
Speakers confined themselves to criticism of what they termed "efforts of a minority" to block establishment of the North Jersey camp, "America's white man's camp"; John L. Lewis and the C.I.O., Samuel Untermeyer, New York attorney and Nazi boycott leader, and Communism.
A group of Italian-American "Blackshirts" were present as guests[sic] Dr. Salvatore Caridi, of Union City, their spokesman, addressed the bund members as "Nazi friends," praising the exhibition of swastikas.
Nearly 1000 uniformed men paraded with bands past a reviewing stand, each giving the Fascist salute and shouting "Heil."
Fritz Kuhn described as bund Fuehrer, said all present were American citizens and it was not a Nazi camp, adding that they sympathized with the Hitler National Socialist government.
Rudolph Markman, head of the Eastern district of the bund, said John L. Lewis' activities were "the first step toward Communism in America."
"We are against and will fight Lewis' C.I.O. because it is Communist and is ruled by Moscow," he said.
William Kunze, of Philadelphia, a district leader, urged his hearers to make known to their representatives in Congress that they were all American citizens and "have the right to meet as white Americans."
State Senator William A. Dolan, of Sussex county, welcomed the campers.
A telegram from Governor Hoffman, in which he expressed regrets another engagement prevented his acceptance of an invitation, was read. Hoffman's name was cheered. - History Unfolded Contributor
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