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American Nazi Party

This article is about the party formed in 1959 later renamed the National Socialist White People's Party. For the 1990s National Socialist White People's Party, see Harold Covington. For the American Nazi Party from the 1930s, see German-American Bund. For the party started by Frank Collin, see National Socialist Party of America.

American Nazi Party
AbbreviationWUFENS (1959)
ANP (1959–1966/1967)[1]
NSWPP (1966/1967–1983)
FounderGeorge Lincoln Rockwell
FoundedMarch 1959
Succeeded byAmerican Nazi Party:
 • Matthias Koehl (1967–1983)
 • Rocky Suhayda (2014–present)[2]
New Order:
 • Matthias Koehl (1983–2014)
 • Martin Kerr (2014–present)[3][4]
Headquarters(Rockwell's headquarters)
928 North Randolph Street,
Arlington, Virginia, U.S.
NewspaperThe Stormtrooper[5]
Youth wingNSLF (1969–1974)
Membership500[6] (c. 1967)
IdeologyNeo-Nazism
White supremacy
Ultranationalism
Antisemitism
Political positionFar-right
International affiliationWorld Union of National Socialists
Seats in the Senate
0 / 100
Seats in the House of Representatives
0 / 435
State governorships
0 / 50
Seats in state upper chambers
0 / 1,972
Seats in state lower chambers
0 / 5,411
Territorial governorships
0 / 5
Seats in territorial upper chambers
0 / 97
Seats in territorial lower chambers
0 / 91
Party flag
Website
americannaziparty.com

The American Nazi Party (ANP) is an American far-right and neo-Nazi political party founded by George Lincoln Rockwell and headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. The organization was originally named the World Union of Free Enterprise National Socialists (WUFENS), a name to denote opposition to state ownership of property, the same year—it was renamed the American Nazi Party in order to attract 'maximum media attention'.[1] Since the late 1960s, a number of small groups have used the name "American Nazi Party" with most being independent of each other and disbanding before the 21st century. 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.[7][A]

Shortly after Rockwell's murder in 1967, the organization appointed Rockwell's second in command, Deputy Commander 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. "In 1982, Martin Kerr, a leader at the Franklin Road headquarters, announced that the organization was changing its name to the New Order and moving to the Midwest", effective January 1, 1983.[10] Due to recruitment issues along with financial and legal trouble, Koehl was forced to relocate the group's headquarters from the DC area, eventually finding his way to scattered locations in Wisconsin and Michigan. After Koehl's death in 2014, a long-time member and officer of the New Order, Martin Kerr assumed leadership and maintains the New Order website and organization.[11]

A former member of the original American Nazi Party, Rocky Suhayda, founded his own organization using the American Nazi Party name and has been active since at least 2008.[12] Suhayda claims Rockwell as its founder despite no direct legal or financial link between it and Rockwell's legacy organization.[13] The one connection between the original American Nazi Party and Rocky Suhayda's group besides ideology is that they sell reprints of Rockwell's 1960s-era magazine The Stormtrooper on their website.

  1. ^ a b Rockwell, George Lincoln. From Ivory Tower to Privy Wall: On The Art of Propaganda Archived August 3, 2014, at the Wayback Machine c.1966
  2. ^ Holley, Peter (August 6, 2016). "Top Nazi leader: Trump will be a 'real opportunity' for white nationalists". The Washington Post.
  3. ^ Michigan, NSM (2016). "A Brief History of American National Socialism" (PDF). National Socialist Movement. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 26, 2016. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
  4. ^ "Nazis in Arlington: George Rockwell and the ANP". Boundary Stones: WETA's Washington DC History Blog. Retrieved March 26, 2018.
  5. ^ “The Stormtrooper Magazine [American Nazi Party publication],” Social Welfare History Image Portal, accessed June 17, 2020, https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/266.
  6. ^ a b c Green & Stabler 2015, p. 390.
  7. ^ Potok, Mark (August 29, 2001). "The Nazi International". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved May 13, 2016.
  8. ^ Wolter & Masters 2004, p. 65.
  9. ^ Van Ells, Mark D. (2007). "Americans for Hitler – The Bund". America in WWII. Vol. 3. pp. 44–49. Retrieved May 13, 2016.
  10. ^ "Death of an Arlington Nazi". www.northernvirginiamag.com. December 30, 2010. Retrieved March 26, 2018.
  11. ^ "Longtime Neo-Nazi Matthias "Matt" Koehl Dies". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved April 24, 2022.
  12. ^ "A Guide to the American Nazi Party Recruiting Materials, c. 1966 American Nazi Party Recruiting Materials Ms2015-060". August 12, 2016. Archived from the original on August 12, 2016. Retrieved March 26, 2018.
  13. ^ Loeser Consulting. "American Nazi Party (USA), Historical Flags of Our Ancestors – Flags of Extremism – Part 1 (a–m)". www.loeser.us. Retrieved March 26, 2018.


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