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The massacre at a small Michigan town remains the deadliest in United States history, even 97 years later.

In the years leading up to WWII, children across the United States spent their summers learning archery and antisemitism.

American Experience: "Nazi Town, USA"Premieres Tuesday, January 23, 2024 on PBS and Streaming on PBS.orgNew Documentary Chronicles the Rise and Fall of the Pro-Nazi German American Bund 

Premieres Tuesday, January 23, 2024 at 9:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App. "Nazi Town, USA" tells the story of the German American Bund, a pro-Nazi group which in the 1930s had scores of chapters across the country, representing what many believe was a real threat of fascist subversion in the United States. They held joint rallies with the KKK and ran summer camps for children centered around Nazi ideology and imagery, melding patriotic values with virulent anti-Semitism.

May 18, 1927 is etched into the fabric of a small Michigan town.

<p>The Long Island town of Yaphank was eager to erase the memory of Camp Siegfried, which closed after the American entry into World War II. Playwright Bess Wohl wants to use it as a warning about the seductive potential of ideology. </p>

On a Sunday afternoon this month, playwright Bess Wohl stood on the shores of a lake in the Long Island hamlet of Yaphank, about 60 miles from Manhatt

Bess Wohl's play, 'Camp Siegfried,' revisits a time when some Americans were indoctrinated in Nazi ideology at summer camp.

How a real-life pro-Nazi summer camp on Long Island inspired a “deeply American play” about seduction.

Irene Dunham, the oldest woman in Michigan and the tenth oldest person in the world, passed away in her DeWitt assisted living facility Sunday afternoon at 114 years, four months and 15 days old.