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Hate: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party Paperback – August 10, 2000

by William H. Schmaltz (Author)
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George Lincoln Rockwell flew U.S. Navy fighters against the Germans and Japanese during World War II yet after the war he founded the American Nazi Party. On 25th August 1967 he was assassinated. This is the first time the details of Rockwell's bizarre, hate-filled life have been told. Author William H. Schmaltz brings us in on Nazi planning and strategy sessions, and dangerous personnel conflicts among the stormtroopers. We learn of the strange relationship between Rockwell;s Nazis and the Black Muslims of Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X, and the rationale behind Rockwell's repeated attacks on Martin Luther King Jr. Today, more than thirty years after his assassination, Rockwell;s poisonous legacy continues to spread among America;s radical Right, including the white separatist militias, the skinheads, the Ku Klux Klan, and those who deny the Holocaust.
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  1. Print length
    388 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Brassey's Inc
  4. Publication date
    August 10, 2000
  5. Dimensions
    5.75 x 1.25 x 9.5 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1574882627
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1574882629
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  • Cwn_Annwn
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great book!
    Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2005
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    After all these years George Lincoln Rockwell still remains one of the most interesting figures to appear on the white nationalist scene. Son of a famous in his day vaudeville performer, went to an ivy league school, flew missions in ww2 and Korea, married to the daughter of the Icelandic ambassador to the United States, a talented artist and cartoonist, the list goes on and on. Rockwell really is someone who could have been a success at almost anything he chose to in life and is not the typical maladjusted freak that often gravitates toward white nationalism in its various forms.

    Schmaltz has written a very fair and unbiased account of Rockwell and his "stormtroopers", who were a menage of brawlers, ex-cons and misfits along with some genuinly talented individuals. Rockwell in many ways was like a great pro wrestling heel with his agitation techniques, he inflamed crowds beyond the boiling point to out and out brawling riots many a time, but he also often won over initially hostile crowds using his sense of humor, (Rockwell was a VERY funny guy!) He was also the first public figure in the white nationalist scene to reject and ridicule the right wing, he was the first to draw alliances with black radicals (he had meetings with Malcolm X and was a guest speaker at NOI rallies a few times) so he was and actually still is a man years ahead of his time in many ways. The life of Rockwell is covered in this book from childhood to his assassination at the hands of one of his most dedicated followers in a very fair, unbiased, and fascinating account of the life and times of GLR.
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  • Theo
    1.0 out of 5 stars Paper Propanda
    Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2024
    More Jewish propaganda after all they run the media and publishing industry. There is no longer real free speech especially when anyone criticized the Zionist stranglehold over the nation. Facts are cherry picked and truths are venom to the corrupt establishment thats lead America into depravity.
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  • LoneWolf1971
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Surprisingly Good Book
    Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2024
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    An objective biography on civil rights leader and ardent anti-communist, George Lincoln Rockwell. This was first written before 2000, and it shows. The author was able to write objectively and didn't inject his own opinion into the historical narrative. If you're interested in this controversial civil rights leader's life, then this book won't disappoint.
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  • Edward W. Cundiff
    5.0 out of 5 stars Clear, concise portrait of 1960's reactionary.
    Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 1999
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    Mr. Shmaltz has written a fascinating biography, full of action, turmoil and complexities. His style is refreshing, his insights keen and research exemplary. This book is a must for anyone who follows right wing extremism.
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  • Kerry Walters
    4.0 out of 5 stars "My guys are like monks, this is almost like a monastery, a hate monastery."
    Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2008
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    So proclaimed American Nazi Party (ANP) founder and leader George Lincoln Rockwell, as quoted in William Schmaltz's biography Hate (p. 210). Rockwell, whose tawdry career as a political agitator ended in 1967 when he was gunned down by a disgruntled colleague, was big on words like "hate." For him, they conveyed an honesty that he thought missing from conventional American politics. Given his strong PR sensibilities, he also knew that extreme language attracted the press. (As he said many times, for example, the word "Nazi" caught media attention in a way that less inflammatory words couldn't.)

    Schmaltz's biography is a chronicle of Rockwell's transformation from the son of a vaudeville couple to the pipe-smoking, cross-armed leader of a political movement whose actual membership never numbered much more than 100. Schmaltz quickly traces Rockwell's student years, his enlistment in the Navy, his early efforts at advertising and publishing, and his two failed marriages before swinging into a year-by-year account of Rockwell's life from his founding of the ANP in 1959 to his death.

    Rockwell preferred to think of himself and his "Stormtroopers" as agitators. He was masterful in a two-fisted, blunt sort of way at manipulating the press, staging guerrilla theatre events that disrupted public meetings, and using audience-appropriate speech when speaking to different groups. In the last three or four years of his life he was a regular speaker on college campuses, traveling from coast to coast. His 1965 gubernatorial campaign in Virginia, while bringing him fewer than 6,000 votes, successfully gained him national media coverage.

    The Rockwell that comes across in Schmaltz's biography is clearly an intelligent man with a lot of drive and discipline. But there's also an uncanny brokenness in him that's sometimes frightening and sometimes merely clownish. He throws out the coarsest racist labels without batting an eye; he tells a Canadian broadcaster that he wants to "gas queers"; he obsessively harps on the "Jewish menace," and just as obsessively insists on the racial superiority of whites to blacks; he tells student audiences, in perfect seriousness, that he'll be president of the US one day; and he likens Hitler to Christ and himself to St. Paul. He seems to thrive on a mixture of bravado, delusion, and hatred that's sometimes so buffoonish it's difficult to believe that he actually took himself seriously.

    Unfortunately, it's not at all clear from Schmaltz's treatment how to understand Rockwell's brokenness. There's very little effort at getting inside the man. Instead, Schmaltz's treatment is for the most part a sometimes tiresomely listing of the external events in Rockwell's life. But at the end of the book, one still has no good sense of what makes Rockwell in particular or hatemongers in general tick. Rockwell remains elusive, enigmatic.

    In fairness to Schmaltz, I should mention that he based much of his research on thousands of pages of FBI documentation obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. None of Rockwell's ex-wives, children, or siblings would allow themselves to be interviewed. Moreover, one begins to wonder if Rockwell became so fixated on creating a public persona that less and less of the "real" Rockwell remained. Perhaps all this explains, at least in part, why the "inner" Rockwell is largely absent from Schmaltz's biography.
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  • hammer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2014
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    great book about a great man, author keeps you drawn in and not wanting to stop reading
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  • Calvin Newborn
    2.0 out of 5 stars Untruth
    Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2024
    If it hadn't been for the Black Muslim party, there most likely wouldn't have been an American Nazi party. As we know it.
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  • John Smith
    4.0 out of 5 stars Hate
    Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2015
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    Suprisingly unbiased, very entertaining read. Rockwell was a tough dude, he would've kicked your A#%
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book
    Reviewed in Canada on July 12, 2021
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    Excellent book on a piece of American history that most people probably don't know about. Would be a great supplement to George Lincoln Rockwell's autobiography "This Time The World."
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