Camp Siegfried

Weekend-morning Long Island Rail Road trains called "Camp Siegfried Specials" ran from Penn Station in New York City to Yaphank for the convenience of the camp's guests, many of whom came out from the German-American Manhattan neighborhood of Yorkville to spend time at what appeared to be a family-oriented summer retreat.

[18][19] According to The Washington Post, the purpose of Camp Siegfried was to "[r]aise the future leaders of America – and make sure they were steeped in Nazi ideals."

Journalist John Metcalfe testified to the House Committee on Un-American Activities that it was part of a plan to create a spy and sabotage network within the United States.

[9] These future Aryan leaders were not only forced to physically build the camp's infrastructure – so as to avoid hiring union labor, when the unions were, the camp's leaders thought, full of Jews – but were also coerced into having sex with each other in order to breed a new generation of perfect Aryan children.

[citation needed] Camp Siegfried was transformed into "German Gardens", a planned community which had been approved by the Town of Brookhaven in 1936.

In May 2017, New York state prosecutors announced that they had reached a settlement with the League to end any discriminatory housing policies and practices.