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PARTY LEADER — Matthias Koehl, 33, head of the National Socialist White People’s Party, ]poses in front of the organization’s headquarters in a two-story building in suburban Arlington, vVa. Koehl took over the renamed American Nazi Party after the killing of George Lincoln Rockwell, the party founder, last year. (AP W irephoto) fDeep splits develop. in Rockwell's party .WASHINGTON (AP) - One year after the assassination of its founder— George Lincoln Rockwell - of the American Nazi party, its name changed, appears outwardly more prosperous, more sophisticated. But its private papers disclose deep splits with several factions competing for a control of the tiny fliovement.What apparently is the principal Nazi organization— now known as the National Socialist White Rsoples party, NSWPP— has bought a two-6tory building in a quiet middle-class neighborhood in suburban Arlington,Va.There, in a second floor office that is carpeted wall-to-wall in £eep red, Matthias Koehl Jr.,33, presides as national leader.Seated beneath a four-foot red banner bearing a black swastika—symbol of Adolph Hitler’s Third Reich- Koehl rules a tiny band of armed racists and anti-Semites.“I was bom a racist,” Koehl told an interviewer. ”1 never could see the sense of mixing of blacks and whites. It’s highly indecent. Pve always believed in the establishment of an all-white America.Koehl was second in command last Aug. 25 when Rockwell was shot by a sniper in an Arlington shopping center. The sniper, former Nazi party member John Pa tier, has since been convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison.Koehl, a native of Milwaukee,Wis., speaks glibly and without hesitation as he talks of the aims of the Nazis— and of his own predictions for the future of the United States:“What we know is coming is : race war. Race war is just around the comer in historical | terms. We expect there will be a ‘ serious American defeat in \iet-j nam because of the administra-. tion’s no-win policy.”He sees also hard economic times coming “because of dwindling reserves of gold and silver. “There’s going to be chaos . in America— we will hold out at, that time the only alternative.” .But Koehl, respected by his , pistol-toting comrades in the Arlington estblishment, apparently ' doesn’t command the respect of lt;all Nazis. He lacks something of.Rockwell, the former Navy j commander and World War II, fighter pilot who affected a folksy style as he smoked his corncob pipe and talked hate.“Pm going to completely separate the black and white races and preserve white, Christian domination in this country,'►and Pm going to have the Jew Communists and any other traitors gassed for treason,” Rockwell once said.But while the basic aims of the Nazis haven’t changed, their • activities have. They’ve largelystopped their publicity seeking antics such as the demonstration in 1965 when a Rockwell trooper put on black-face minstrel garb, slipped past guards and made a dramatic entrace in the well of the House of Representatives to protest civil rights legislation.And they’ve turned to use of the telephone for what Koehl calls the “white power message.” One such message, opposing the elevation of Associate Justice Abe Fortas to chief justice called him “a Red Jew — an utterly despicable one.”And more recently Koehl’s recorded voice urged District of Columbia residents to disobey the new district gun registration law, and instead obtain a minimi tic Itplaces for their weapons.“Everyone who registers his i1 gun with the black government e in the district will sooner or later be ordered to give up that t gun,” Koehl’s recorded voice said, “the white minority in t Washington will be defenseless 1 and completely at the mercy of the rampaging blacks.” 1Although Koehl will not dis- t close the size of his organization or its budget, he said “our in- c come is rising steadily. We have * developed new sources of in- s come.The second phase — which * Koehl estimates will take two to * five years — calls for building the party internally, forming the mechanism of what Kohel : calls the “revolutionary cadre.” 1
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Waynesboro Record Herald
Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Aug 08, 1968
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