Radicals: Finis for the Fuhrer

George Lincoln Rockwell was a failure at just about everything he tried.

Like his idol Adolf Schicklgruber, he was an unsuccessful painter. He went bust in the advertising business and broke as a traveling salesman, and was a dropout as publisher of a woman's magazine. Both his marriages failed.

And in politics his risible handful of strutting, beswastikaed American Nazi Party bullyboys, agape at their Fuhrer's harangues of hate, made even the sneering epithet "Halfpenny Hitler" sound overpriced.

Jews above all he detested. It was Communist Jewry, Rockwell prated, that spurred the...

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