Patler John (6 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Unpaginated mimeo'd magazine. Stapled pictorial card covers. Some minor creasing around staples, otherwise quite crisp. Phone number in red ink front cover otherwise unmarked.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 4to, ~86 leaves (mimeographed one side), stapled wrappers. Bulky first issue of this thick mimeographed poetry magazine from seventies Marin County, with a prime roster of contributors. Unmarked copy, light outer wear and staple rust. Not Signed.

An issue of the American Nazi Party's crass, irregularly published magazine that began in February 1962 and ceased in 1968, soon after George Lincoln Rockwell's assassination by The Stormtrooper's long-time editor, John Patler (b. Patsalos). The magazine superseded the organization's short-lived National Socialist Bulletin and was published alongside the more "refined" Rockwell Report as the two official publications. As Rockwell biographer William Schmaltz notes, "The Stormtrooper was purposely designed to be brutal and shocking, in order to force attention to it. [Rockwell] needed to instill in the 'public mind' the image of his all-out hostility toward Jews and blacks, regardless of the cost in terms of pseudo-intellectual support" (p. 180, Hate: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party). This issue was partially devoted to James Pearson, a young ANP member from Colorado who was killed - not defending the white race - but during a lover's tryst. Other content includes coverage of Party actions and other Party news, a profile of ANP Security Officer Robert A. Lloyd III, racist and anti-Semitic comic strips, articles on black crime, an international Nazi section, "Little Known Facts About Adolf Hitler," and much more. Stapled, illustrated wrappers (8 ¼" x 5 ¼"), 50 pp., heavily illustrated. Staples rusty, else a fine copy.

The American National Party was a short-lived extreme right group founded by ex-American Nazi Party members John Patler and Dan Burros in late 1961. The group, which never included more than a handful of members, operated out of a one-room wooden shanty at 97-15 190th St. in Queens where Burros edited the party's small format magazine, Kill! The ANP's activities included distributing party literature, picketing leftist or civil rights protests, and engaging in provocative street oration, all of which were designed to attract media attention without getting its members killed by irate passers-by. The party's platform included the extermination of "black criminal traitors, and all Communist traitors," the repatriation of all other blacks to Africa, and military intervention against all Communist countries (see "John Patler Answers Some Important Questions About the American National Party" (not included here). The group dissolved in November 1962 after Patler accused Burros of shirking his picketing duties when the latter stayed home to watch a baseball game instead of picketing the funeral of Eleanor Roosevelt in Poughkeepsie. Burros would go on to join the National Renaissance Party and the New York Klan before killing himself on October 31, 1965 when his Jewish identity was exposed in the New York Times. Patler briefly returned to George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party before another dispute in March 1967 led to his ouster. In August 1967 he assassinated Rockwell, although he served less than 8 years of a 20-year sentence. The three items included here primarily reflect the group's rabid anti-Communism and consists of 11" x 8 ½" flyer on saving the McCarran Act with cartoons by Patler; a 8 ½" x 8 ¾" flyer demanding the testing of bigger and dirtier bombs, and a small sticker sized leaflet (2" x 8 ½") with the slogan "Death to Communism" and asking white men to help in the fight against the red front.

An issue of the American Nazi Party's crass, irregularly published magazine that began in February 1962 and ceased in 1968, soon after George Lincoln Rockwell's assassination by The Stormtrooper's long-time editor, John Patler (b. Patsalos). The magazine superseded the organization's short-lived National Socialist Bulletin and was published alongside the more "refined" Rockwell Report as the two official publications. As Rockwell biographer William Schmaltz notes, "The Stormtrooper was purposely designed to be brutal and shocking, in order to force attention to it. [Rockwell] needed to instill in the 'public mind' the image of his all-out hostility toward Jews and blacks, regardless of the cost in terms of pseudo-intellectual support" (p. 180, Hate: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party). Content for this issue includes an offensive centerfold poster depicting a "special [barber] kit" for cutting black hair, Rockwell's editorial, "From the Desk of the Commander," an interview with stormtrooper Donald Baker, an article on black crime, Nazi Hatelets, the Party's Combat Reports, an international Nazi section, reader letters, a profile of long-time Party member Alan Welch, etc. This issue was edited by John Patler who was the magazine's longest-serving editor and it was his inability to publish more than two issues a year that was cited as one of the reasons for his ouster from the Party in 1967 (which in turn led to Rockwell's assassination by Patler in August of that year). A portrait of Rockwell graced the cover of the Autumn 1967 issue and only one further issue was published in 1968 before the Party turned its attention to its tabloid newspaper, White Power. Stapled, illustrated wrappers (8 ¼" x 5 ¼") printed in color, 36 pp., heavily illustrated. Staples rusty, else a fine copy.

Rare original broadside of a splinter-group from The American Nazi Party, The American National Party, co-founded by the disaffected right-hand man of George Lincoln Rockwell, John Patler (born John Patsalos). The group's other founder was Daniel Burros, who died (reputedly of suicide) after being exposed as being of Jewish heritage by The New York Times in 1965. Patler would rejoin the Nazi Party but then five years later assassinate Rockwell at an Arlington, Virginia laundromat, briefly gaining national notoriety. He would later change his name back to Patsalos (from the Hitlerian "Patler") and repudiate his earlier racism. 8.5" x 14". Very Good+. Folded in fours, faint date of 1962 written along bottom margin in pencil. An interesting snapshot of the tumultuous American far right political scene in the early '60s.