Podcast Episodes

CZM Rewind: An Accidental Nazi Rally

In 2017, an anti-Muslim nonprofit crowd-sourced the organization of a nationwide series of rallies. Many of the people who stepped up to help turned out to be well known white supremacists.

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Disorganized Crime, Pt. 4

In the final chapter of his life, Frank Smith really did start the whites only church he first proposed to George Lincoln Rockwell.

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https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/academics/centers-ini…

Published on 1 week ago

Disorganized Crime, Pt. 3

In 1965, Frank Smith was laying low in Maine after a failed mob hit nearly killed him. He reappeared a few months later in Virginia, acting as a body guard for his new best friend, the commander of t…

Published on 2 weeks ago

The Other Rockwell

George Lincoln Rockwell was a nazi. Norman Rockwell was a painter. They didn't have much in common at all, but people can't seem to stop mixing them up.

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https://library.washu.edu/news/norman-r…

Published on 2 weeks, 2 days ago

Disorganized Crime, Pt. 2

When Frank Smith got out of prison in 1964, he went right back to working for the New England mafia. He also joined the American Nazi Party. And he had a dream that the two organizations could work t…

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Disorganized Crime, Pt. 1

Before he joined the American Nazi Party in 1965, Frank Smith was already a career criminal working for the New England mafia.

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https://www.nytimes.com/1952/05/06/archives/friend-of-sutton-seiz…

Published on 4 weeks ago

George Lincoln Rockwell's Coffin Flop

When the commander of the American Nazi Party died, he left instructions with his successor. He wanted the military funeral he was entitled to as an American veteran. It didn't go well.

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Published on 1 month ago

Death of a Demagogue, Pt. 3.5

In 1976, the recently paroled assassin went back to prison after being arrested in Charlottesville. He was acquitted on the charge of being naked in a stranger's living room, but he'd violated his pa…

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Death of a Demagogue, Pt. 3

In the third episode of the story of George Lincoln Rockwell's assassin, Rockwell finally dies and his assassin goes on trial.

Sources:

Schmaltz, William H. (2013). For Race And Nation: George Lincoln …

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Death of a Demagogue, Pt. 2

In the year leading up to George Lincoln Rockwell's assassination, he was trying to take the American Nazi Party in a new direction. Not everyone within the party was on board with the changes.

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Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago