Report: Southbury to be Recognized in U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Magazine

Southbury’s story about conflict with the German-American Bund in 1937 will be featured in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s newest magazine issue, according to the Republican-American.

The museum wanted to recognize the three daughters of late Rev. M. Edgar N. Lindsay, who was pastor of the South Britain Congregational Church when the Bund tried to build a Nazi training camp in the town, the Rep-Am reported.

The German American Bund established Nazi training camps during the 1930’s across communities in the United States.

In 1937, the Bund purchased large plots of land in what was the small town of Southbury, in order to build what they hoped would be the largest camp of it’s kind.

In order to prevent the Bund from settling in Southbury, residents — with the help of their clergy and town officials — organized a protest that succeeded in keeping them out.

Southbury was the only town in the U.S. that rejected the Nazi-aligned group.

Read the full Rep-Am story here.