George Lincoln Rockwell was born in Bloomington, Illinois, in the
home of his maternal grandfather, on March 9, 1918. His father was a very
successful headline comedian from 1912 until about 1935. His ancestors
were German, French, English, and Scotch, numbering among them many
Revolutionary War figures and going back to Marie Antoinette, the French
Queen.
Rockwell stayed in Bloomington, Illinois, only until he was old
enough to get out of the hospital, when he was taken on the vaudeville
circuit by his parents. He then spent some time in New Jersey, New York,
and California, but most of his youthn was spent in Boothbay Harbor, Maine.
He attended Hebron Academy, a prep school near Lewiston, Maine after which
he entered Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, majoring in
philosophy. In college, Rockwell enjoyed and did well in the sciences and
other objective courses, but fought blindly and instinctively against the
"sociology" and other similar departments which, unknown to him, were then
preaching the Marxist environmentalism and equalism which has played such
havoc with our human, biological sciences.
Leaving Brown in the middle of his junior year in 1940, when it
became obvious that the U.S. would get into World War Two, Rockwell
enlisted as a seaman in the United States Navy in Boston, Massachusetts.
By the outbreak of World War Two on December 7, 1941 he had entered naval
aviation, and became a scout pilot and a fighter pilot. He served aboard
the U. S. S. Omaha in the South Atlantic and off North Africa during the
invasion. He was then sent to the Naval Photographic School for pilots and
assigned to the U.S.S. Wasp, and from there went to the Pacific theater.
He became a Commander of Forward Air Control Operations for Marine Corps
assault troops. He was at Guadalcanal, Guam, and other Pacific hot spots.
At the end of World War II he was commanding officer of a squadron in
Hawaii, earning nine decorations.
Released from active duty, Rockwell attended Pratt Institute art
school in New York, working part time in advertising and commercial art.
In 1948, while still at Pratt, he won first prize of $1,000 in the
National Society of Illustrators competition for a full page newspaper ad
for the American Cancer Society. Although still in the ready reserves as
Commanding Officer of a squadron in Washington, D.C. he launched a new magazine,
"U.S. Lady", for the wives of U. S. service men. In 1949, Rockwell founded the
first big national advertising agency in the state of Maine. Recalled for
the Korean War in 1950, he trained Marine and Navy pilots in close support
of troops and then was transferred to Iceland, where he became commanding
officer of a squadron at Keflavik.
At about this time he became deeply concerned about the way all he
had fought for in two wars was being turned over to Communism. He noticed
that almost all of the convicted Communist spies and traitors such as
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Nathan Silvermaster, Harry Dexter White
(Weiss), Robert Soblen, Morton Sobell, David Greenglass, Judith Coplon,
Harry Gold, Miriam Moskowitz, Fred Rosenberg, and Sam Cohen (chief
Communist spies caught in Canada) and most of the Communist intellectual
leaders such as Herbert and Bettina Aptheker, were racial Jews. He was
especially shocked to find that "Who's Who In World Jewry", published by
the Jews themselves, listed many of these atheist Communists very proudly as
Jews, even though Rockwell then believed Jews were just a religion.
Observing that Hitler had said that Communism was Jewish, and that
the Jews were out to degenerate and conquer the White race by subversion
and race-mixing, Rockwell bought a copy of MEIN KAMPF and read it, even
though he thought he already knew what was in it from all he'd heard. He
was astounded to find that it was actually a brilliant analysis of the
mess Western Civilization had gotten into, and the only plan he'd ever seen
for the White race to save itself.
For a number of years, he tried to work with various "right wing"
organizations, all of whom believed, as he did for a while, that it was
necessary to disguise one's belief in Adolf Hitler and National Socialism.
Finally disgusted with the emptiness, the weakness, the hypocrisy and
especially the cowardice of the so-called "conservatives", Rockwell
determined to ATTACK at last, flying the Swastika banner which had come so
close to saving Western civilization and the White race. "Since our Cause
is fundamentally the truth," he explained to horrified friends, "I do not
see how we can win by lying or misrepresenting what we are for fear of the
Jews.The only time in the hundred years of the rise of Communism that this
plague has ever actually been BEATEN, it was beaten not by 'conservatives'
but by radicals and fighters whom the enemy called Nazis and Fascists and
whomthey really did fear. Only in Germany, Spain and Italy has Communism
ever been conquered. We are damned fools to be afraid to follow the only
examples that ever worked!"
He hung up a Nazi banner in front of his home and dared the Jews to
do something about it. They---and their friends and dupes---came in droves
and mobs to do something about it, but Rockwell survived all the shooting,
the rocks and other Jewish "arguments". The publicity gave him a
much-needed platform from which to call the attention of his fellow
Americans to the increasingly desperate situation of America and our great
White family of peoples.
Rockwell believed it was time for the White man to take America
back from the aliens, the minorities, and the terrorists in power, under
the demagoguery of cheap politicians. To accomplish this Rockwell believed
he had to win not the few in the right wing, or the upper classes, but the
millions and millions of our people. And to win these people he had to
offer them something besides a lot of empty platitudes about freedom and
the Constitution. Only National Socialism offered a positive and
progressive program for ALL Aryan people, rather than just the middle and
upper classes, and combined a concern for the purity and protection of the
White race with a fighting determination to stop all further mongrelization
of our people.
Within five years Rockwell had led the Nazi Party from a tiny and
scorned band of roughnecks willing to take to the streets to fight treason
and race-mixing, to a Party which had headquarters in Washington, Chicago,
Los Angeles, and most major cities, and commanded the grudging respect of
the enemy, even though there was powerful censorship of the American right
to know what Rockwell was doing.
Under Commander Rockwell, the Party published the ROCKWELL REPORT,
the STORMTROOPER, and the NATIONAL SOCIALIST WORLD, along with bulletins
for Party members only. Rockwell had plans to organize the White
Guard---young, White fighting men to help protect society from the black
and Red revolution which had already conquered the police departments of
Los Angeles, Chicago, Cleveland and many other cities.
George Lincoln Rockwell is the father of the present-day racialist
movement in the U.S. and the founder of American National Socialism. For
most of his turbulent career as Commander of the A.N.P, Rockwell lived a
shadowy existence on the fringes of the American political scene. He was
misunderstood and rejected by the vast majority of his fellow White
Americans, whom he loved dearly. He and his tiny band of "roughnecks" were
alternately cursed, ridiculed and ignored by the mass media. They fought
street battles without end against Communist and Jewish thugs who sought to
silence them by force, and spent many a night in jail, courtesy of hostile
politicians and police officers. Throughout it all, Lincoln Rockwell's
warrior spirit of courage, idealism, and heroic defiance was never
crushed.
His years of persistence finally paid off in 1966, when thousands
of White men, women, and youth in Chicago followed his leadership in a
spontaneous uprising against efforts forcibly to integrate all-White
working class neighborhoods. The uprising culminated in the now-famous
White People's March of September 10th, 1966, in which hundreds of Whites
followed Commander Rockwell's leadership under the sign of the Swastika.
Tragically, within a year Lincoln Rockwell was dead. On August
25th, 1967 this authentic American hero was murdered in Arlington,
Virginia, under circumstances which have never been satisfactorily cleared
up but which point very heavily towards the Jewish Anti-Defamation League,
and also to at least some involvement on the part of the man who seized
control of the Nazi headquarters and "succeeded" Rockwell. The trigger man
was later convicted and received a short prison term; his accomplices in
the corridors of power and the traitor within the headquarters who made
the phone call telling the gunman where Rockwell would be were never charged
or punished.
Yet although Lincoln Rockwell died on that dark Friday in August,
his heroic spirit lives on in the hearts and minds of White men and women
everywhere who continue to draw inspiration from his mighty example.