American Nazi Party
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The American Nazi Party was a white extremist Neo-Nazi political party formed on March 8, 1959 by George Lincoln Rockwell. The organization was headquartered in Arlington, Virginia and maintained a 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. In 1967 Rockwell was assassinated by a disgruntled party member in the parking lot of the local laundromat. 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.
The party published amateurish cartoon books portraying whites in a favorable light fighting and defending white school children oppressed by ignorant and violent African-Americans, which it distributed to children in school parking lots. The resentment Northern Virginia students felt towards the governments desegregation effort known as busing caused this Nazi material to resonate among certain members of the white population.
Provoked by an FBI COINTELPRO operation, 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 referred to in The Blues Brothers (film). Collin's actual 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. Collin was, ironically, of Jewish descent. [[Citing sources citation needed]]
Party Headquarters
The American Nazi Party moved out of the 6045 Wilson Boulevard office from the predominantly residential Dominion Hills neighborhood to 2507 North Franklin Road, Arlington, Virginia. The party's barracks which housed 20 stormtroopers was located nearby at 6150 Wilson Boulevard. This was the old farm house which the neighbors called "The House on Hatemonger Hill." [link] In the 1980's the party abandoned the Northern Virginia area for other climes after it realized that the urban Washington area was not sympathetic to its recruiting.The office building where Rockwell's office was located is now known as the Dominion Hills Professional Center. The strip mall where Rockwell was slain is still called the Dominion Hills Shopping Centre. In the past, admirers of Rockwell have painted a swastika on the exact spot of the parking lot where he died. No such marking currently exists.
The North Franklin Road office is now a coffee shop, serving a racially diverse community. The "Stormtrooper Barracks" on Wilson Boulevard has since been razed and the property has been incorporated into the Upton Hill Regional Park.
Revived ANP
More recently a new American Nazi Party has been launched and is largely regarded as extremist, even for a fascist organization. The new group claims to be the inheritor of Rockwell's legacy and is led by Rocky Suhayda. It was formerly known as the European American Education Association and is based in Eastpointe, Michigan. It uses the so-called Fourteen Words as its motto: "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children."According to its website, "The American Nazi Party is a Political-Educational Association, dedicated to the 14 WORDS, "We are 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 website contains several sections such as email contacts, merchandise, history, etc. The ANP report area has reports dating back to July 2003. The ANP reports, which are released approximately biweekly, usually consist of appeals for members, appeals for contributions, and National Socialist ideology focusing heavily on "white worker's rights".
The National Socialist Movement uses the closely related name: America's Nazi Party. This is a different group from the American Nazi Party. Occasionally, other American Nazi groups will also describe themselves as America's Nazi Party. The well known white supremacist group KKK (Ku Klux Klan) also affiliates itself with groups that have Nazi beliefs, and like them, displays paraphernalia with the swastika on it.
See also
References
- American Fuehrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party by Frederick J. Simonelli (University of Illinois Press, 1999, hardcover: ISBN 0252022858)
- Hate: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party by William H. Schmaltz (Brassey's Inc., 1999, hardcover: ISBN 157488171X, paperback: ISBN 1574882627)
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)
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