Bush Terminal

Hi guys, today me and Maria checked out Bush Terminal. We found a great place to shoot. Unfortunnetly I couldn't take pictures in side but here is some pictures around the area.

Germans in NYC

Who's on finding Germans who migrated here right before World War II? I just found this link.

And here's their contact info:

German-American Community Project, Inc.
871 U.N. Plaza
New York, NY 10017
Tel.: 212-610-9721
Fax: 212-610-9704
email: info@germanyinnyc.org

There's also the German Consulate, which you should really contact:

Deutsches Generalkonsulat
212-572-5633
460 Park Ave.
New York NY 10022

Hitler's Long Island Legion

This is a really long article, but what an interesting piece of history!! I've been doing some internet scouring about Germans in New York during World War II, and got kind of soundtracked into the whole German-American Bund / Friends of the New Germany movement.

Click on the link above for the whole article. Here's some excerpts:

In the summer of 1936, the still-distant threat of Nazism cast an unexpected shadow across the hinterlands of Long Island.

That spring, Adolf Hitler had been preparing for war. His newly mobilized troops rolled into the Rhineland, unopposed by the Allies. It was the first of a series of Nazi military adventures setting the stage for World War II.

On Long Island, Nazism invaded Yaphank in the form of a summer retreat called Camp Siegfreid.

Located on a wooded lakefront near the mid-Suffolk village, the camp was ostensibly a summer place for youngsters and a weekend campground for adults. In reality it was more dangerous -- a project sponsored by the German-American Bund, which had been established to promote Hitlerism in this country.
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Carrying flags emblazoned with swastikas, the emblem of the Nazi movement, older bundists and young campers paraded in uniform -- showing off stiff-armed salutes and singing the ``Horst Wessel Song,'' a Nazi anthem. Later, it was discovered that plans to commit espionage and sabotage in the future were also discussed covertly. ``We remain oblivious to the Nazi prototype that existed in our own backyard,'' Marvin Miller wrote in ``Wunderlich's Salute,'' the first history of the bundist movement on Long Island, published in 1983. Now 63, Miller was a Long Island high school teacher. He decided to begin the project in the 1970s, he said, when he discovered that no history of the camp existed in book form.

Miller recounted the experience of Murray Cohen, a Brooklyn high school student who rode the ``Camp Siegfried Special'' to Yaphank in 1937. Photographs Cohen secretly took at the camp were later published by PM, New York's liberal afternoon daily in the 1940s. On the train, Cohen chatted with Mueller while, in the background, uniformed bundists sang Nazi anthems.
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At the camp, Fritz Kuhn, a U.S. citizen who headed the bund, predicted that someday he would be ``America's Fuhrer,'' Miller wrote. Activities included more than sports and sunbathing. There were recorded operas by Richard Wagner, Hitler's favorite composer, and anti-Semitic lectures by Walter Kappe, the camp's propaganda chief. Kappe argued that Jews were the founders of international communism. The Friends of the New Germany in America would become ``what the Storm Troopers were in Germany,'' he promised.

By 1937, up to 40,000 bundists would arrive on Sundays to celebrate Nazism in America, while young Siegfrieders lined up to greet them as the train pulled into Yaphank. A large contingent of Nazis also marched through the village of Lindenhurst that year. Some threats of violence came from members of American Legion posts, who threatened to break up the camp but were dissuaded by Suffolk District Attorney Robert Vunk.

Soon after, Miller wrote, Kappe was ordered to return to Germany to work on plans to land spies on the coast of Long Island. In the early days of the war, four would-be saboteurs were captured after landing near Amagansett -- three turned out to be former Siegfrieders.
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Operation Pastorius

More submarines!! Or are these the ones always talked about?

Operation Pastorius was a failed plan for a series of attacks by Nazi German agents inside the United States. The operation was staged in June 1942 and was to be directed against strategic U.S. economic targets. The operation was named by Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, chief of the German Abwehr, for Francis Daniel Pastorius, the leader of the first organized settlement of Germans in America.

Recruited for the operation were eight Germans who had lived in the United States. Two of them, Ernest Burger and Herbert Haupt, were American citizens. The others, George John Dasch, Edward John Kerling, Richard Quirin, Heinrich Harm Heinck, Hermann Otto Neubauer and Werner Thiel, had worked at various jobs in the United States.

Click on the link above for the rest of the Wikipedia article.

A-Bomb

While I'm thinking about it... Sandy e-mailed me the day after the shoot. She's really upset about the A-bomb footage and doesn't want it in the movie. She said something about it being too controversial... Corliss, on the other hand, WANTS us to include what Barbara said about how if they hadn't dropped the bomb, her husband wouldn't be here.

Sourcing for Ken Burns' footage

Ken Burns' seven-part documentary on World War II that begins Sept. 23 on PBS is said by the producer to explore "the greatest cataclysm in history--a worldwide catastrophe that touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America."

Just over five solid minutes of archival film used in The War came from Carolina's Fox Movietone News Collection at the News Film Library, which was given to the University by 20th Century Fox in 1980.

Included were scenes of New York City, combat in Europe and the Pacific, the manufacture of dolls for little girls, and presidential reports to the nation, among other images.

For the full article, click here. The article mentions some of his other sources. It would be a great idea to contact Eastman House - if you do, I have a friend with good connections there.

Interview

Hey so I want to shoot on Friday in Brooklyn East 7th between M and N

Aurthor Lonto is the subject

i need to know who's willing to be part of this shoot
if you are i will send you over a copy of his auto biography

This guy lost his brother in the war.
He entered the war in 1943
He has attended several Worlds Fairs
He has some interesting stories