American Nazi Party

The American Nazi Party (ANP) was initially established by George Lincoln Rockwell in 1959 as the World Union of Free Enterprise National Socialists (WUFENS), but Rockwell changed the name the following year to the American Nazi party in order to increase media attention. It's ideology barrows heavily from the ideology of NSDAP (National Socialist German Worker's Party aka Nazi Party), yet expressed allegence to the consitutional principles of the US founding fathers, and supports Holocaust Denial; the belief that no systematic extermination took place in Nazi Germany.

In 1967 George Rockwell began to insitute party reform; limiting the display of the swastika, and entering candidates on a local level. He replaced the party cry of "Sieg Heil!" with "White Power", and toned down attacks upon non-whites so as to recast the party as a legitamate political party. He even renamed ANP the National Socialist White People's Party (NSWPP). However these moves alienated him from central members, and in that year, one such member, John Patler assassinated Rockwell after one failed attempt. John Patler had been ejected prior to the attempt by Rockwell for allegedly attempting to introduce Marxist doctrine into the party's platform.

Leadership was taken up by Matt Koehl, and latter by Frank Collin, who would go on to establish the National Socialist Party of America. In 1979 the party teamed up with the KKK in order to combat the Communist Workers' Party, which was protesting in Greensboro, North Carolina. During the counter protest the NSWPP, and the KKK opened fire upon the Maost; killing five in what is known as the Greensboro Massacare. The survivors won a lawsuit against both aggressors, and the city, for violation of free speech. This was the last major political move of the party.

The party would remain active till 1983 when it was officially desolved; only to be suceeded by various, fragmented organzations who carried on it's original name; The American Nazi Party.