George
Lincoln Rockwell
US Politician,
* March 9, 1918,
† August 25,
1967
R. was born Bloomington, central Illinois. In 1938, he attended Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island for a short time before dropping out to join the Navy. He became a pilot and flew in the Pacific during World War II.
After the war, R. became a commercial artist. In spring 1946, he built a photography studio and found work painting commercial
signs. While R. was introduced to the modern art movement, he considered
them foreign and Communist. He also saw Jews as promoters of the movement, and thus felt even more contempt towards it.
In 1948, he won the $1,000 first prize for an ad he did for the American Cancer Society.
R.'s career as a commercial artist was interrupted when he was recalled to duty as a Lieutenant Commander at the start of the Korean War.
Upon returning a second time to civilian life,
R. started in September 1955 the publication "U. S. Lady". After presenting the idea to generals and admirals who headed public relations departments for the various military services, Rockwell began his publication efforts in Washington, D.C.. The new enterprise would also incorporate
R.'s political causes: his opposition to both racial integration and
communism. He published an animal farm-type parody, " The Fable of the Ducks and the
Hens", which was his interpretation of Jewish power in twentieth century United
States. In 1952, R. began working with antisemitic and anti-communist groups.
In 1959, R. formed the American Nazi Party and he and his members would regularly appear at civil rights meetings and
demonstrations. R. said that 80 percent of the Jewish population in America were Communist sympathizers and therefore
traitors. He was fined and sent to prison on several occasions for his
activities.
In summer 1966,
R. led a counter-demonstration to Martin Luther King's attempt to bring an end to de facto segregation in the white Chicago suburb of Cicero, Illinois. He believed King was merely a tool for Jewish Communists to integrate America. After hearing the slogan "Black Power",
R. altered the phrase and started a call for "White Power." White Power would later become the name of the party's newspaper and the title of a book authored by
R.
R.'s principal message was racial separation and attempted to form friendly associations with the Nation of Islam.
If separation was not achieved, R. believed America faced long-term racial problems and predicted a great race war, where "the uniform would be skin
color." R. believed the conflict was approaching with whites eventually becoming America's new racial
minority. In 1967, R. announced the party’s next stage of development. He officially changed the name of the American Nazi Party to the National Socialist White People’s Party (NSWPP).
R.'s most famous activity was the mass promotion of denying the Holocaust. He maintained it was all propaganda from the war that became a psychological weapon of Zionism, designed to promote white guilt and coerce the Western world into contributing billions in foreign aid to
Israel. He often declared that if not for the Holocaust, the modern state of Israel would not
exist and there would be no worldwide demand for eliminating racial segregation and
apartheid.
On June 28, 1967, the first attempt was made on Rockwell’s life.
On August 25, 1967, Rockwell was killed by gunshots in Arlington, Virginia. After his funeral on 30 August 1967, the Pentagon refused to allow Rockwell's body to be buried in the national cemetery at Culpeper because his followers refused to take off their swastika armbands before
entering. R.'s murderer, John Patler, was sentenced to 20 years in prison, at that time the least punishment possible for a first degree murder conviction.
Literatur über
/ Writings concerning R.:
*Who was George Lincoln Rockwell? by A.V. Schaerffenberg
*Biography for George Lincoln Rockwell
*George Lincoln Rockwell
*Commander Rockwell Of The American Nazi Party
Letzte Änderung / Last update:
03.10.2008
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