Frank Collin, a native of Chicago, became a member of the National Socialist White People's Party in the late 1960s. He broke with the NSWPP due to a disagreement with party Commander Matt Koehl, who had assumed the leadership of the party after George Lincoln Rockwell's August 25, 1967 assassination by a disgruntled member, John Patler.
Collin's organization, the National Socialist Party of America, remained relatively obscure until 1977, when it announced plans to march through the Chicago suburb of Skokie, Illinois in retaliation for the City of Chicago banning the NSPA from speaking publicly in Marquette Park. It prompted a landmark legal battle.
At the time, Skokie had the largest Jewish population per-capita in the United States, and many residents were Holocaust survivors; it was widely presumed that this is why Skokie was chosen. Ultimately, the NSPA won the right to march, but without their swastika armbands (yet with their National Socialist military uniforms).[1] However, the Skokie march was called off when the city of Chicago, at the behest of Skokie's Jewish leaders and residents, decided to allow Collin to speak in the city. (Note: the aforementioned statement is not verified in the documentary "National Socialist America: A Secret History". In this documentary the attorney for Collin and his group states that the Justice Department intervened, that it "sat down with the client and asked him what he would need to not march in Skokie". Collin's reply was that he be granted a permit to rally in Chicago, which was subsequently granted. Collin had been banned from holding rallies in Chicago parks because of the shrill nature of these gatherings.)
Collin's downfall began with the revelation that his father, Max Simon Collin, was a Jew whose original surname had been "Cohen". Max Cohen/Collin claimed to have been a prisoner at Dachau concentration camp, where Frank Collin was said to have been conceived.
While president of the NSPA, Collin was arrested by Michigan police while having sex with a pair of 10-year-old boys. These revelations led to his dismissal from the National Socialist movement. A psychiatrist who interviewed Collin declared that he was "consumed by hatred for his father"; it was argued that Collin rejected his father by becoming a National Socialist and adopting and publicly espousing antisemitic beliefs. Collin was convicted of child molestation and sent to Pontiac prison in 1979.[2] He served three years of a seven-year sentence.
While president of the NSPA, Collin was arrested by Michigan police while having sex with a pair of 10-year-old boys. These revelations led to his dismissal from the National Socialist movement. A psychiatrist who interviewed Collin declared that he was "consumed by hatred for his father"; it was argued that Collin rejected his father by becoming a National Socialist and adopting and publicly espousing antisemitic beliefs. Collin was convicted of child molestation and sent to Pontiac prison in 1979.[2] He served three years of a seven-year sentence.
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NOTE - THE ACLU SUPPORTED THESE NAZIS
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