American Nazi Party
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The American Nazi Party (ANP) was founded by George Lincoln Rockwell with the goal of reviving Nazism in the United States of America and was headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. Initially called the World Union of Free Enterprise National Socialists (WUFENS), Rockwell reorganized and renamed it the American Nazi Party in 1960 to attract maximum media attention. The party was based largely upon the ideals and policies of Adolf Hitler's NSDAP in Germany during the Third Reich but maintained allegiance to the Constitutional principles of the U.S.'s Founding Fathers. It also added a platform of Holocaust denial.
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[edit] Headquarters
The WUFENS headquarters was first located in a residence on Williamsburg Road in Arlington. Rockwell later relocated ANP headquarters to a house at 928 North Randolph Street (now a hotel and office building site). Rockwell and some party members also established a "Stormtrooper Barracks" in a farmhouse in the Dominion Hills section of Arlington at what is now the Upton Hill Regional Park, the tallest hill in the county. After Rockwell's death, the headquarters was moved to one side of a duplex brick and concrete storefront at 2507 North Franklin Road which featured a swastika prominently mounted above the front door. Visible from busy Wilson Boulevard this site is often misidentifed as Rockwell's headquarters when in fact it was the succesor organization's last physical address in Arlington (now a coffeehouse) [1].
[edit] Assasination of leader
In 1967 the party's leader Rockwell was shot by John Patler (an ex-party member).
[edit] Activities
The American Nazi 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). "Send Them Back to Africa" was a common theme. ANP members stood in the parking lots of local Junior High & High School parking lots handing out these cartoons to young students, Thomas Jefferson Junior High School (now Thomas Jefferson Middle School) in particular.[citation needed]
[edit] Factions
In 1970, NSWPP member Frank Collin, broke away from the group and founded the National Socialist Party of America, which became famous due to an attempt to march through Skokie, Illinois, a community with a large Jewish population that included numerous survivors of the Holocaust. The event was dramatized in the television film Skokie and is mocked in the film The Blues Brothers. Collin's aim was to lead demonstrations in Chicago's Marquette Park area, and he targeted Skokie in an attempt to gain access to Marquette Park without posting a large insurance bond. In 1979, Collin was convicted and sent to prison on charges of child molestation .[2]
[edit] Greensboro Massacre
On November 3, 1979, in what became known as the Greensboro massacre, five protestors at an anti-Klan march in Greensboro, North Carolina, were shot and killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party. The victims were members of the Communist Workers Party, which had been seeking to organize mainly black industrial workers in the area and confronting local white supremacists.[3] At the time of the shooting the ATF had an undercover agent within the Party, and one of the Klansmen present at the shooting was a police informant. None of the killers were ever convicted.[citation needed]
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/05/AR2008020502676.html Washington Post - "It's Just Nazi Same Place" - Gene Weingarten
- ^ “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.
- ^ Mark Hand (2004-11-18). "The Greensboro Massacre". Press Action.
[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)
