Friday A/V Club: The Nazi Summer Camps of New York

Audrey Amidon of the National Archives
writes:

I have one great party trick. Anytime someone asks me
if I’ve ever come across something really cool while working in the
Motion Picture Preservation Lab, I tell them about the time we had
what looked like footage of a Boy Scout camp and then the Boy
Scouts raised a Nazi flag along with the red, white, and blue.
Without fail, I get the attention of anyone in within
earshot.

The footage is below. To skip straight to the flag-raising
ceremony, go to 13:47:

Needless to say, those aren’t Boy Scouts. They’re young members
of the German-American
Bund, an infamous American Nazi organization of the 1930s and
early ’40s. The Bund operated several summer camps in the years
before World War II. This one was located in Windham, New York.

The film, which was shot around 1937, is in the public domain,
so if you’re making a mockumentary set in a dystopian timeline
where Germany won the war, feel free to borrow all the flag-raising
footage you need.

(For past editions of the Friday A/V Club, go here.)