American Nazi Party
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The American Nazi Party was an American Neo-Nazi political party formed in February 1959 by George Lincoln Rockwell. The organization was headquartered in Arlington, Virginia and maintained a visitor's center at 2507 North Franklin Road.
The organization was based largely upon the ideals and policies of the NSDAP in Germany during the Third Reich. Following the assassination of Rockwell in 1967 by a disgruntled party member the group was taken over by Matt Koehl who renamed it the National Socialist White People's Party.
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 and a number of survivors of the Nazi genocide. Collin's actual goal was to lead demonstrations in Chicago's Marquette Park area, and targeted Skokie in an attempt to get access to Marquette Park without posting a large insurance bond. Starting in the mid 1970s, the predominantly White neighborhoods surrounding Marquette Park were in the midst of being integrated by African-Americans and other non-White groups. Collin was eventually convicted and sent to prison in 1979 on charges of child molestation.
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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. They use the so-called Fourteen Words as their motto: "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for White children."
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
- The American Nazi Party, 1958-1967 (http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2082/is_n3_v57/ai_16990541), an article from The Historian (Spring, 1995) by Frederick J. Simonelli
- Official website of the revived ANP (http://www.americannaziparty.com/)