Camp Hindenburg
Camp Hindenburg was a summer youth camp for the German American Bund near Grafton, Wisconsin 18 miles north of Milwaukee off of U. S. Highway 141. The camp itself was in a valley surrounded by wooded hills. The nearby Milwaukee River provided swimming facilities.
History
The Bund scouts or Jungenschaft would come from the surrounding areas of Chicago and Milwaukee. In 1937, over a hundred youths would attend the summer camp. Youth leader Karl Moeller from Chicago was camp supervisor.[1]
In 1939, the Wisconsin Federation of German-American Societies, who was opposed to the Bund, acquired the lease to Camp "Hindenburg" and renamed it Camp "Carl Schurz" in honor of a famous German-American officer and political leader. Bund members protested saying their camp was "stolen." However, a few months later they opened a new camp nearby.[2]
See also
- Camp Hindenburg Park, German American Bund camp in southern California
Further reading
- Lucas Grulke: Camp Hindenburg, 2016
