"Or wrap your head around four Nazis on a rubber raft who showed up on Amagansett's shore in 1947, claiming they were a couple of fishermen from Southampton. Trained as spies by the Nazi high command for a commando-style raid on U.S. shores, the saboteurs arrived with $175,000 in cash ($3 million in today's money) for payoffs, payouts, and other nefarious deeds."
"Christopher Verga, an American history instructor at Suffolk Community College, a reporter with Schneps Media, and a Bay Shore resident, has authored several books previously reviewed in this publication. They include Saving Fire Island from Robert Moses, coauthored with Neil Buffett; and Cold War Long Island, coauthored with award-winning journalist Karl Grossman (also a frequent Schneps Media contributor), who provides the foreword to Verga's new release, Nazis of Long Island."
Four Nazi saboteurs landed on Amagansett's shore in 1947 posing as fishermen. They had been trained as spies by the Nazi high command for a commando-style raid and carried $175,000 in cash for payoffs and operations. Their mission aimed to blow up power lines at selected locations, cripple the U.S. energy grid, and create havoc to aid a government overthrow. The plot involved American collaborators but ultimately ran aground; all participants were captured, tried, and convicted. The German American Bund spread antisemitic propaganda through rallies and summer youth camps, including Camp Siegfried in Yaphank, where children were taught Hitlerism, discipline, and militarism.
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