The American Nazi Party Reborn: The Spread of Nazism across the American Far Right, 1966-2017

While some may view the modern day American Far Right as an ideological monolith, traditionally the American Far Right has held a number of diverse ideologies. Previous scholarship has noted the evolution of these extreme ideologies and has often emphasized the disdain these organizations held for one another, most notably against the American Nazi Party (ANP) that developed after World War II. Most scholars associate the end of the ANP’s political power with the assassination of its founder George Lincoln Rockwell in 1967. However, upon Rockwell’s assassination, ANP members founded and joined other Far-Right groups. This article examines the multiple organizations that ANP members created and provides a synthesis of the core ideological shifts that occurred within these radical groups. Doing so gives historians a more complete view on how American Nazi ideology spread following the ANP’s collapse and how multiple American Far-Right organizations became nazified in the late twentieth century, influencing US politics into the early twenty-first century.