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BOX 3 ZAREPHATH, N. J.
MARCH 10, 1967
VOLUME XI NO 3
aturtice in us -
THE NAZI MYTH
.everywhere he goes, and whatever he does,
Party when a man named Daniel J. Burros committed
Rockwell generates hostility and bad publicity for
suicide late in 1965, after having been exposed as
himself - denunciations from the pulpit, from the
being Jewish and an official of the Ku Klux Klan.
press, radio and TV, and from numerous organizations
It turned out that Burros had also been affiliated
and prominent individuals.
with Rockwell's group earlier. Since the news was
"I only wish that the same were true of the Com-
out Rockwell had to cope with it. He tells us about
munist Party leaders who, for many reasons, pose a
it in his Oct.-Nov. 1965 ROCKWELL REPORT.,
very real threat to this country.''
Under the title of "The Burros Business," he
Thus spoke Congressman John Ashbrook on
writes:
the floor of Congress on February 9, 1967, quoting
"The last three days since Dan Burros shot him-
from a report on the American Nazi Party and its
self have been pretty wild here. The calls and
"fuhrer," George Lincoln Rockwell. The myth of
interviews from Life, Newsweek, the Networks and
Nazi power and the danger of a Nazi take-over
all the papers, it seems, in the world, have kept our
in this country and all over the world is being kept
phones ringing night and day, -until I called a press
alive by a vast number of old and new movies,
conference to deal with the situation in an orderly
television programs and writings. No such energy
and efficient manner.
has been expended on the real threat to this country
"Just to present the facts to OUR people, I will
and the world, the International Communist Con-
therefore print a resume of the whole Burros affair.
spiracy, by the controlled Hollywood film industry,
"Burros appeared here one day in early 1960 on a
the TV networks, the news media and book publishers.
visit from New York City. He was an avid collector
The truth is that the Nazis have never been a threat
of German and Nazi 'souvenirs' Burros was hyp-
to this country and Hitler's followers have all but
notized by the sight of LIVE Nazis - in UNIFORMS,
disappeared from the world scene with the exception
--he just HAD to be one, too."
of a large group which joined the ranks of the Com-
munists openly. There are many former high-ranking
After Burros joined up and moved into "miserable"
Nazis holding office in the Communist countries.
headquarters, Rockwell and his "Nazis" got to
know him better. Rockwell writes: "We learned
The American Nazi Party was formed some
that he had been sent to the Army headshrinker for
seven years ago by George Lincoln Rockwell, a
sadistic tendencies and Nazi leanings he had
former U.S. Naval Officer, who gathered together a
strangled the mascot of the 101st Airborne Di-
group of followers described by the House Committee
vision bare-handedly throttling the young eagle.
on Un-American Activities as anything but an im-
"He would spend hours gleefully describing the
pressive lot. Their investigation revealed that among
various tortures he had invented for the Jews (Burros
Rockwell's followers are individuals who have
claimed to be German but was himself a Jew)
dishonorable discharges from the U.S. Armed Forces,
He also collected all kind of pornography
former inmates of mental hospitals, homosexuals,
"In spite of these aberrations, he was really a
and criminals.
brilliant young man, and hugely dedicated to the
For several years the American Nazi Party has
Cause, there was no doubt of that then, and no
operated from an old mansion at 928 North Randolph
doubt of it now
Street, Arlington, Virginia, from which address was
"He considered himself a master-spy type, and
issued the ROCKWELL REPORT, its official pub-
kept demanding to be invested with the powers of
lication. In his issue of January 1964, Rockwell
our official 'SS POLICE SPY' and Gestapo boss
states he is not a Christian, that he is an agnostic.
(which melodramatics I don't permit around here).
In his issue of Oct.-Nov. 1965 he characterizes life
'Dissatisfied at the lack of musical-comedy-type
at his "HQ" as "miserable," with fifteen people
'Nazism' here, at the diet of chicken-backs and
beans
living there, sleeping all over the floors, in cars,
he began to plot with another man to
etc. This type of life seems to appeal to assorted
desert and start their own 'Nazi' Party. He stole his
odd-balls.
own and another sworn application. crawled out of
a second-story window one night, and slipped up to
Some light was thrown on the American Nazi
New York City
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