George Lincoln Rockwell & The American Nazi Party [View all]

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George Lincoln Rockwell (1918-1967) the Illinois-born, post WWII founder of the American Nazi Party was media-savvy, pipe-smoking and blatantly racist, homophobic and antisemitic. In 1962, after the US and allies had defeated Nazi Germany in 1945 Rockwell tried to hold a rally celebrating Hitler’s birthday in NY.

The American Nazi Party (ANP) is a far-right American political party with its HQ in Arlington, Va. Rockwell founded the organization as the World Union of Free Enterprise National Socialists (WUFENS), but renamed it the American Nazi Party in 1960. Since the late 1960s, a number of small groups have used the name "American Nazi Party" with most being independent from each other and disbanding before the 21st c. The party is based largely upon the ideals and policies of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party in Germany during the Nazi era, and embraced its uniforms and iconography.

Shortly after Rockwell's assassination in 1967, the organization appointed Rockwell's second in command, Dep. Comd. Matt Koehl as the new leader. The American Nazi Party, now under Koehl's command, was subject to ideological disagreements between members in the 1970s and 1980s. Koehl relocated the group's HQ from the DC area, eventually to scattered locations in Wisconsin and Michigan. After Koehl's death in 2014, Martin Kerr assumed leadership and maintains the New Order website and organization. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Nazi_Party https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lincoln_Rockwell
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/27/george-lincoln-rockwell-american-nazi-party-alt-right-charlottesville