George Lincoln Rockwell & The American Nazi Party

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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

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1. Little NAZI Clubs all over Wisconsin in the Forties.

And their Grand Kids are still active.

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2. Sorry about the grandkids, but I believe it, sigh.

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3. If you grew up in the Northern

and North eastern part of Wisconsin circa ww2 and right after. Chances are you knew of or were related to some of these Suckers. And they are out of hiding now the Trump has okayed their hatred.

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4. Relishing opportunity in the new fascist regime.

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5. So much ignorance

so much hatred,and these folks have zero caring in their being. Karma will balance the books some day.

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6. As a somewhat related sidenote

Marlon Brando gave his only television acting performance in "Roots II: The Next Generations" (1979) portraying George Lincoln Rockwell when he was interviewed by Alex Haley (portrayed by James Earl Jones) for Playboy Magazine (when Haley worked as a writer for the magazine interviewing a number of notable people during the '60s). It netted him a Primetime Emmy for "Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Special".

But what is more interesting is that when hunting for this link again (which I have posted on DU a number of times before) the comments by white supremacists and their ilk on youtube for this video and on the various other clips of this (as well as sites that that showed up in the search results associated with Brando's performance) have exploded exponentially. I.e., they apparently just discovered this (since the 2016 election) and had quite a bit to say to bash it.

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7. Brando did a great job as Rockwell, no wonder he received an Emmy.

So its popular again, no surprise. James Earl Jones always great, saw him in Othello and met him at a BBC event.
Rockwell, an orator and a showman reminds me of Jim Jones, a bit more reserved. What a character and founding 'father.' Years ago we drove by the Arlington HQ across from Georgetown, I barely remember.

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10. WaPo did a piece on Charlottesville and the 50th anniversary of Rockwell's assassination

last summer -

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/08/21/the-shadow-of-an-assassinated-american-nazi-commander-hangs-over-charlottesville/?utm_term=.089628b630f6

Talk about history repeating itself!

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11. Thanks for this and the Brando clip. I'm paywalled with WaPo

and was just able to scan the article once. It's surprising to me that there hasn't been more GLR coverage, monster that he was.
<snips> WAPO. Shortly before noon on Aug. 25, 1967, a pale ’58 Chevy pulled into a shopping center in Arlington. Out stepped one of the most hated men in America. As the founder of the American Nazi Party, George Lincoln Rockwell had hung swastikas on the Mall and picketed the marches of Martin Luther King Jr. He had called for shipping blacks to Africa and sending millions of “Communist Jews” to the gas chambers — all at a time when memories of World War II were still fresh.
Now, dressed not in his Nazi uniform but a simple white shirt and dark slacks, Rockwell grabbed his dirty laundry and headed into the Econ-o-wash, only to realize he had forgotten the bleach. As he climbed back into his car to return to Nazi headquarters — a large house a block away dubbed...

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12. I think

if you clear your cache, that might re-set the paywall...

It's ironic, but not surprising, that one of his own went after him.

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8. I hate Illinois Nazis.

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9. lol