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In 1959, the American Nazi Party was founded by George Lincoln Rockwell, a former U.S. Navy commander, who was dismissed from the Navy due to his espousal of fascist political views. On August 25, 1967, Rockwell was shot and killed in Arlington by John Patler , a former party member who had previously been expelled by Rockwell due to his ...
The American Nazi Party (ANP) is an American far-right and neo-Nazi political party founded by George Lincoln Rockwell and headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.The organization was originally named the World Union of Free Enterprise National Socialists (WUFENS), a name to denote opposition to state ownership of property, the same year—it was renamed the American Nazi Party in order to ...
Although the National Fascist Party was outlawed by the postwar Constitution of Italy, a number of successor neo-fascist parties emerged to carry on its legacy. Historically, the largest neo-fascist party was the Italian Social Movement (Movimento Sociale Italiano), whose best result was 8.7% of votes gained in the 1972 general election.
During the Fascist rule in Italy, a gerarca (Italian: member of a hierarchy, plural: gerarchi) was a higher officer of the National Fascist Party (PNF). The highest gerarchi , up to the Federal Secretary, were members of the National Council of the PNF and of the Chamber of Fasces and Corporations .
Albanian Fascist Party: Albania Yes No (1939) No Italian Fascism: Became Guard of Great Albania in 1943 Guard of Great Albania: Albania Yes No (1943) No Italian Fascism: Evolved from the Albanian Fascist Party Argentine Fascist Party: Argentina No No (1932) No Italian Fascism Successor of the National Fascist Party Argentine Patriotic League ...
Benito Mussolini, dictator of Fascist Italy (left), and Adolf Hitler, dictator of Nazi Germany (right), were fascist leaders.. Fascism (/ ˈ f æ ʃ ɪ z əm / FASH-iz-əm) is a far-right, authoritarian, and ultranationalist political ideology and movement, [1] [2] [3] characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a ...
Rockwell led the American Nazi Party in assisting the Ku Klux Klan and similar organizations during the civil rights movement, in attempts to counter the Freedom Riders and the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. But he soon came to believe that the Klan was stuck in the past and ineffective in helping him wage a modern racial struggle.
Anastasy Andreyevich Vonsyatsky was born in Warsaw, Poland (then part of the Russian Empire). [1] His family, though Polish in origin, was known for its long devotion to the Russian czars; one of Vonsyatsky's paternal great-grandfather had been handed a comital [2] estate from the Romanovs, [3] which allowed him to use the courtesy title of Count. [2]