The American Nazi Party is also called National Socialist Movement and NSM88. It was formed in 1974 by Robert Brannen along with Cliff Herrington, who served as Brannen’s deputy. Herrington became the leader of the party after Brannen died of a stroke in 1983.The current leader of this party, which is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN, is Jeff Schoep. It is the largest neo-nazi group currently active in the United States. The members swear brown shirts to show their allegiance with Hitler’s stormtroopers. Their logo and symbol is the swastika.
George Lincoln Rockwell
Aside from Adolf Hitler, whom they call our “Fuhrer,” the party reveres George Lincoln Rockwell, who founded the first Nazi party in the United States in the 1960s. Born in 1918, Rockwell in Illinois, Rockwell wanted to become a commercial artist, and he won a contest sponsored by the Cancer Foundation.
But his artists ambitions changed after entered the military during World War II. He later regretted fighting again Hilter’s National Socialist government, and after he read Hitler’s Mein Kampf, he claimed he had discovered what was wrong the America. It was the Jews, he claimed, who were causing the “deteriorating condition of Western Civilization.” Therefore, he started the American Nazi Party to combat that enemy.
In 1965, Rockwell ran for governor of Virginia as the American Nazi Party candidate, coming in dead last. It is said that he coined the phrase “White Power” after Stokely Carmichael’s “Black Power.”
Ideology
The Nazi party openly denigrates African Americans, Jews, non-white immigrants, and homosexuals. Their ideology is spelled out in 25 Points of National Socialism; the following excerpts exemplify their basic tenets:
1. We demand the union of all Whites into a greater America on the basis of the right of national self-determination.Military Structure
4. Only members of the nation may be citizens of the state. Only those of pure White blood, whatever their creed, may be members of the nation. Non-citizens may live in America only as guests and must be subject to laws for aliens. Accordingly, no Jew or homosexual may be a member of the nation.
6. We demand that the State shall make it its primary duty to provide a livelihood for its citizens. If it should prove impossible to feed the entire population, foreign nationals (non-citizens) will be deported.
7. All non-White immigration must be prevented. We demand that all non-Whites currently residing in America be required to leave the nation forthwith and return to their land of origin: peacefully or by force.
The party is structured on a military pattern; they have ranks such sergeants, lieutenants, commanders. The current leader is Commander Schoep. Their various groups are called units. These units also engage in military-like training. In their publications, they advocate that while arm themselves, and they have published instruction for making explosives using fertilizer. The following state have between from two to five Nazi units: Michigan-4, Minnesota-2, Missouri-4, Montana-3, Kansas-4, Indiana-2, California-2, Florida-2, South Carolina-2, Tennessee-2, Texas-2, Virginia-3, Washington-4, New York-2, North Carolina-2, and Ohio-5.
This party welcomes and works with the Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Skinheads, the Racial Nationalist Party of America, and other neo-nazi groups. Any group that bases its identity on white racial heritage will find a friend in the American Nazi Party.
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