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Propel waits on approvals, some residents oppose States Army Corps of Engineers and the New York State Public Service Commission. The project is going through As the Propel project to install underground powerlines the Article VII process at the across Long Island into the state level to review several Bronx and Westchester awaits aspects of a project, including approvals, Glen Head residents environmental compatibility continue to raise concerns and a n d p u b l i c n e e d . I t a l s o requires public input. Transco oppose the construction. The New York Power Author- says the Propel team has used many methods of ity and New York public outreach, Transco plan to such as public install nearly 90 infor mation sesmiles of cables in the Propel project. sions, surveys and Three of the proopen houses, but posed lines will pass G l e n H e a d re s i through Glen Head dents say there is a and Glenwood Landlack of communicaing. A roughly 9.1tion to their commile line will run munity specifically. from a Uniondale “The fact that hub to Shore Road they refuse to come and a 17.7-mile line and meet with our from Melville to MARYkATE community,” said Shore Road. AnothGlen Head resident er 17.7-mile line will GUIlFoYlE Christine Panzeca, r u n f r o m S h o r e Transco “is more than Road to Westchester. insulting.” Panzeca With construchas opposed the tion expected to start later this project from the beginning and year, Propel continues moving has joined George Pombar, head through the permitting process of the Glen Head Glenwood which includes permits at the Landing Civic Council, in orgafederal, state and local levels. nizing informational events for The project is still waiting for the community regarding Proapprovals from the United
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Nazi sympathizers ran a summer camp, called Camp Siegfiried after a mythological German hero, in Yaphank, which also provided cover for Nazi espionage during WWII.
Uncovering L.I.’s Nazi past By WIll SHEElINE wsheeline@liherald.com
The North Shore Historical Museum welcomed historian Christopher Verga on Sunday for a presentation on homegrown fascism, foreign propaganda and its continued impact on Long Island today. Titled “Nazis of Long Island: Sedition, Espionage & the Plot Against America,” the presentation examined the growth of the various far-right German nationalist movements active on Long Island, and across America, in the 1930s and ‘40s. Verga, who teaches at John Jay College of Criminal Justice where he specializes in radicalization, framed his talk as both local history and national warning. “This is bigger than Long Island,” he said. “These guys were trying to flip the United States. ‘Der Tag,’ ‘The Day,’ that’s what they were trying to go for.” Attendees from across the North Shore, including New York Assemblyman Charles Lavine, asked Verga questions throughout. Drawing on archival research from institutions including the Longwood Public
Library in Middle Island and the Suffolk County Historical Society, Verga traced the rise of the German American Bund, or Federation, and affiliated groups across Long Island, the New York metropolitan area, and the entire country in the 1930s. He began by discussing the work of journalist Dorothy Thompson, who warned early about Adolf Hitler and fascism. Thompson “blew all the whistles, she sounded all the alarms,” Verga said, but was largely ignored as Nazi ideology took root in pockets of the United States. Verga described a Long Island traumatized by World War I losses, the Great Depression and the 1918 influenza pandemic. “Most Americans,” he said, “still did not want to get involved in the war.” Across the country there were approximately 25,000 members of German-American Bund–related groups around the country. He emphasized that fear of another global conflict created fertile ground for isolationist and extremist movements. Central to his talk was Camp Siegfried in Yaphank, a Bund-run summer camp and CoNtINued oN paGe 2
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