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The '''American Nazi Party''' ('''ANP''') is an American and National Socialist party founded by [[George Lincoln Rockwell]] and headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. The organization was originially 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'. 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 National Socialist German Workers Party in Germany during Hitler's reign, and embraced its uniforms and iconography. | The '''American Nazi Party''' ('''ANP''') is an American and National Socialist party founded by [[George Lincoln Rockwell]] and headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. The organization was originially 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'. 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 National Socialist German Workers Party in Germany during Hitler's reign, and embraced its uniforms and iconography. | ||
Revision as of 20:21, 30 December 2022
The American Nazi Party (ANP) is an American and National Socialist party founded by George Lincoln Rockwell and headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. The organization was originially 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'. 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 National Socialist German Workers Party in Germany during Hitler's reign, and embraced its uniforms and iconography.
After Rockwell's murder
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. 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 and renamed it back to American Nazi Party .
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. Suhayda claims Rockwell as its founder despite no direct legal or financial link between it and Rockwell's legacy organization. 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.