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    "ocrText": "THE NAZI. MYTH\n(Continued)\ncolored man is sitting on a prostrate white man beat-\nPENDENT of August 31, September 7, 1966, we read\ning him with a blackjack. Standing smugly by are\nthe following, under the headline: \"NAZIS WORKING\nseveral figures: one labelled \"Birchers\" is sipping\nWITH KING, COMMUNISTS, IN CHICAGO:\ncoffee (tea, cocoa?), smoking a cigar, wearing a top\n\"The American people have been conditioned by\nhat with a big dollar sign on it, and the balloon over\nCommunists, using Paylovian brainwashing tech-\nit states \"Write your Congressman;\" another with the\nniques, to believe that Nazis and Communists are\nface of a pig is piously on its knees and has its do 1-\n'political opposites. Nothing could be further from\nlar sign on its black coat. Need we tell you that it\nthe truth. Communists and Nazis are neither*politi-\nis labelled \"Hoggis\" and that its balloon says \"Pray\ncal' nor 'opposite.' They are simply branches of the\nand send me money?\" The heroic figure with the\ncriminal conspiracy (International Communist Con-\nNazi armband points at the white-black struggle and\nspiracy) dedicated to enslaving the entire world.\nits extra large balloon says: \"WHITE MAN FIGHT!\"\n\"The basic building block of Communism is some-\nOther lesser figures in the cartoon say \"Wave the\nthing called the 'science of Dialectic Materialism.\nConfederate flag\" and Burn a cross.' This cartoon\nAll Communists have been schooled in the science\nappeared in The ROCKWELL REPORT of Oct.-Nov. 1965.\nof dialectics. Dialectics consists of an onrushing\n'thesis,' which is opposed by an immovable 'anti-\nAs of December 1965 the American Nazi Party\nthesis,' there is a clash, and from out of the 'clash'\nwas not doing too well financially and the Washing-\ncomes a 'synthesis.' \"\nton, D.C., EVENING STAR of December 3, 1965 re-\n\"Dialectics as used in the civil rights movement,\nported that their headquarters in Arlington had been\nconsists of simply: (1) The Thesis, or an action. In\npadlocked that day by Internal Revenue Service agents\nthis case, 'non-violent' demonstrations. (2) The\nto enforce a claim for back taxes. The article stated:\nAntithesis, or a reaction. This, of course, consists\n\"The IRS described the raid as an 'enforced collec-\nof reactions of the rock-throwing, swastika-carrying\ntion' of alleged unpaid withholding taxes, unemploy-\n\"Nazis and racists.' (3) The Synthesis. Out of the\nment taxes and corporate income taxes for 1962 through\n'conflict,' 'division,' and 'chaos' produced by the\nthe first three months of 1965.\n'antithesis' or 'clash' (the reaction of the Nazis)\n\" 'We told them we couldn't pay it. We just don't\ncomes the desired result- unconstitutional leg-\nhave the money,' Rockwell said\nislation, increased hatred between the two races\n\"The self-styled Nazi said his entire operation\nand a general disrespect for law and order.\n'subsists on contributions' and sales of pamphlets,\n\"Isn't it interesting that no matter where Martin\ninsignia, armbands and swastika flags.\nKing is demonstrating the same members of the Ameri-\n\"Rockwell's group maintains another installation\ncan Nazi Party keepturning up?\"\nhis residence and the 'barracks' - at 6150 Wilson\nBoulevard, where he and several of the party mem-\nThe Congressional Record of February 9, 1967\nbers live.\ncontains a detailed report on the subject of the Ameri-\n\"Arlington Deputy Treasurer B.L. Fletcher told a\nican Nazi Party made by Rep. Edwin Willis to the\nreporter that Rockwell also had been delinquent on\nHouse Un-American Activities Committee and insert-\nlocal personal property taxes for the years 1960-63.\ned into the Congressional Record by Rep. John Ash-\n\" \"The only way we can collect is to try to find\nbrook. Mr. Ashbrook stated that the report was based\nsome assets of his, but so far we haven't found any,'\non an extensive study of the organization and that\nFletcher said.\nthe committee staff had been collecting information\n\"The IRS raid was directed only at property 'be-\non the American Nazi Party since it was formed some\nlonging to the corporation - not personal belongings,\nseven years ago. He stated also:\naccording to an agency spokesman.\n\"It is interesting to note that the committee finds\n\"The corporation is called G.L. Rockwell Party,\nthat the Rockwell Nazis have probably less than 50\nInc. Rockwell said that the Virginia legislature had\nactive members, and it is doubtful that the group\nprohibited him from chartering his group with the\nhas numbered more then 100 members nationally at\nword \"Nazi' in the name.\"\nany time in the past. Financially unstable, this sub-\nversive group is anything but impressive with a sig-\nWhile any tax-payer may find himself in diffi-\nnificant percentage of the so-called \"troopers' having\nculties with the voracious Internal Revenue Service\neither criminal records or dishonorable discharges\nand we don't endorse these collection methods, we\nfrom\nthe armed services tis the considered opin-\nhave included this information to point out the sorry\nion of the chairman (of the House Committee on Un-\nstate of the finances of the American Nazi Party.\nAmerican Activities), Mr. Willis, that this small\nHowever, this indigent organization with a handful\nsubversive group creates no more than occasional\nof members gets national publicity with every move\nproblems which local police can adequately handle.\nit makes and it is tied in with legitimate \"right-\nwing\" groups.\nThe report placed into the record states:\n\"The American Nazi Party, as its name indicates,\nNazism, however, either here in the United\nhas openly advocated a form of government for the\nStates in the form of G.L. Rockwell's strange group\nUnited States that is both alien and hostile to that\nor in Germany under Hitler, is not a \"right-wing\"\nprovided by the Constitution. It has categorized\nmovement. In an article in the BIRMINGHAM INDE-\nitself as a subversive organization not only by its"
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