| | [[Image:George Lincoln Rockwell.jpg|right|thumb|300px|George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party]] | | [[Image:George Lincoln Rockwell.jpg|right|thumb|300px|George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party]] |
| − | The [[American Nazi Party]] was founded in the [[United States]] by [[George Lincoln Rockwell]] in 1958. They pledged allegiance to the ideals of [[Nazi]] [[Germany]] and the late [[Adolf Hitler]]. Rockwell was assassinated by one of his members, John Patler, in 1967 over an internal party dispute, and was replaced by Matthias Koehl, who had previously been a founder of the [[National States Rights Party]] in 1958. Koehl had two deputies, his "national officers", Robert Lloyd and [[William Pierce]]. The party denials the [[Holocaust]]. | + | The [[American Nazi Party]] was founded in the [[United States]] by [[George Lincoln Rockwell]] in 1958. Homosexuals made up a "significant" part of its membership.<ref>http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2000/fall/the-fringe-of-the-fringe</ref> They pledged allegiance to the ideals of [[Nazi]] [[Germany]] and the late [[Adolf Hitler]]. Rockwell was assassinated by one of his members, John Patler, in 1967 over an internal party dispute, and was replaced by Matthias Koehl, who had previously been a founder of the [[National States Rights Party]] in 1958. Koehl had two deputies, his "national officers", Robert Lloyd and [[William Pierce]]. The party denials the [[Holocaust]]. |