American Nazi Party - Namesake Organizations

Namesake Organizations

Since the late 1960s there have been a number of small groups that have used the name "American Nazi Party". Perhaps the first was led by James Warner and Allen Vincent and consisted of members of the California branch of the NSWPP. This group announced its existence on January 1, 1968. In 1982 James Burford formed another "American Nazi Party" from dissafected branches of the National Socialist Party of America. This Chicago-based group remained in existence until at least 1994. There was also a small American Nazi Party that operated out of Davenport, Iowa led by a John Robert Bishop.

The name "American Nazi Party" also been adopted by a group run by Rocky J. Suhayda, a former member of Rockwell's original ANP in 1967. Although Suhayda's ANP states that Rockwell was their founder, there is no direct legal or financial link between it and Rockwell's legacy organization, now a low-key Hitlerian religious group called New Order. Headquartered in Westland, Michigan, Suhayda's ANP website sells nostalgic reprints of Rockwell's 1960s-era magazine "The Stormtrooper". The group boasts 2008's National Socialist presidential candidate John Taylor Bowles as a member. Holding semi-private yearly meetings at his home, Suhayda's followers do not wear uniforms, except for the SA, or Security Arm and eschew public demonstrations, frequently criticizing rival organization the National Socialist Movement for "outing" its members with excessive media exposure.