American Nazi Party
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The American Nazi Party is a group which formed on March 8, 1959 by George Lincoln Rockwell with the intent of reviving Nazism in the United States. The organization was headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, and maintained a bookstore and visitor's center at 2507 North Franklin Road (now a coffeehouse). The organization was based largely upon the ideals and policies of Adolf Hitler's NSDAP in Germany during the Third Reich along with the added platform of strong Holocaust denial. In 1967 Rockwell was assassinated by a disgruntled party member.[citation needed] The group was renamed the National Socialist White People's Party (NSWPP) a few months before Rockwell's assassination. Matt Koehl became Rockwell's successor.[1][2]
The party published racist cartoon books portraying white men fighting and defending white school children allegedly oppressed by African-Americans (who were caricatured as being ignorant and violent). These cartoon books were distributed to high school students in school parking lots.[citation needed]
In 1970, NSWPP member Frank Collin, broke away from the group and founded the National Socialist Party of America which became famous due to its attempt to march through Skokie, Illinois; a community with a large Jewish population that includes numerous survivors of the Holocaust. This event is dramatized in the television film Skokie and referred to in the film The Blues Brothers. Collin's goal was to lead demonstrations in Chicago's Marquette Park area, and he targeted Skokie in an attempt to get access to Marquette Park without posting a large insurance bond. Collin was eventually convicted and sent to prison in 1979 on charges of child molestation.[3]
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[edit] Other similar groups
The American Nazi Party mantle has been taken up by a few small, often one-man, organizations, such as James Burford's in Chicago and John Bishop's in Iowa.[4]
A new group claiming the name American Nazi Party has been launched, and according to its website, "The American Nazi Party is a Political-Educational Association, dedicated to the 14 Words". The organization also states that it is "committed to bringing American National Socialism, first created and embodied by our late Commander George Lincoln Rockwell, out of the past Phase One activities which at the time served their purpose well, and into the 21st century."
The National Socialist Movement uses the similar name America's Nazi Party.
[edit] References
- ^ American Fuehrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party by Frederick J. Simonelli, (University of Illinois Press, 1999, hardcover: ISBN 0-252-02285-8)
- ^ Hate: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party by William H. Schmaltz, (Brassey's Inc., 1999, hardcover: ISBN 1-57488-171-X, paperback: ISBN 1-57488-262-7).
- ^ “Hate Groups, Racial Tension and Ethnoviolence in an Integrating Chicago Neighborhood 1976-1988,” by Chip Berlet; in Betty A. Dobratz, Lisa K. Walder, and Timothy Buzzell, eds., Research in Political Sociology, Vol.9: The Politics of Social Inequality, 2001, pp. 117–163.
- ^ Kaplan, Jeffrey. Encyclopedia of White Power: A Sourcebook on the Radical Racist Right. Rowman Altamira, 3. ISBN 0742503402.
[edit] External links
- Official website of the revived ANP
- Official website of the National Socialist Movement (This group is different from the revived ANP, but sometimes does co-use the same or similar name)
