N.J.’s forgotten history of hate | Opinion Updated Jan 25, 2021; Posted Jan 24, 2021 Arlene Stein, a sociology professor at Rutgers University, says today, as thousands openly espouse violent racist and anti-Semitic beliefs and our now former president mobilizes them to wield power, we should not forget that white supremacist and fascist-inspired movements have been a recurrent part of our history. In July 1937, nearly 1,000 members of the German-American Bund wear swastika armbands and carry Nazi banners as they parade during the opening of Camp Nordland in Sussex County, New Jersey. (AP Photo)AP Facebook Share By Arlene Stein At a summer camp in northwest New Jersey, cabins surround a lake. A photograph from 1937 shows hundreds of teenage boys dressed in light brown shirts and shorts, and girls in white blouses and black skirts carrying flags. At first, it looks like a typical summer camp of that era. But on a closer look, one sees pressed uniforms, lockstep marching, and flags with swastikas, alongside stars and stripes.