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History of American National Socialism
Conclusion to Part 8


By Martin Kerr


Source: https://www.theneworder.org/history---8.html


National Socialist Liberation Front

The NSLF was another NSWPP-breakaway, led by Joseph Tommasi. He had been the most impressive and successful of the NSWPP’s local leaders. He ran the Los Angeles Unit of the party out of a large Swastika-decorated farmhouse in the LA suburb of El Monte.

Tommasi was a talented public speaker and organizer and had a charismatic personality. At a time when many NSWPP units struggled to raise a dozen men for local demonstrations, Tommasi could put 40 to 50 troopers in the street. By most political metrics, this is a pitifully small number, but by the low standards of post-War American National Socialism it was noteworthy.

Unfortunately, Tommasi was impulsive, hot-headed, and undisciplined. He viewed his NSWPP chapter as an independent NS franchise, that he could run however he saw fit. Commander Matt Koehl, however, considered each local unit to be subordinate to the party’s national organization. Koehl repeatedly tried to bring Tommasi’s operation into line with the rest of the party, but the 22-year-old Tommasi was stubborn and refused to comply. In 1973, Koehl reluctantly removed Tommasi as the Los Angeles Unit leader. In March of 1974, Tommasi broke from the NSWPP to form the National Socialist Liberation Front.

The NSLF, supposedly, was committed to “building the National Socialist revolution through armed struggle.” Tommasi, however, was limited in how much armed struggle he could actually undertake, since the group was heavily infiltrated by the police from the moment of its inception. Instead, he formed an alliance with an anti-Castro Cuban group based in South El Monte. The Cubans would commit minor acts of violence against local Marxist organizations, and by mutual arrangement the NSLF would publicly take the credit for them.

Actual NSLF activities were largely limited to attacks on the NSWPP headquarters and its personnel, against which Tommasi continued to harbor a grudge. For their part, the police did not care if the “Nazis” beat each other up. In fact, they preferred that the two groups expended their limited energy and resources fighting each other, rather than in public outreach.

On August 15, 1975, Tommasi was shot dead on the steps of his former NSWPP headquarters when a confrontation he initiated with two NSWPP security officers turned violent. One of the men later pled guilty to second degree murder and was sentenced to six months in jail. Following Tommasi’s death, the NSLF was led by David Rust, but within a few years Rust found himself in prison on weapons charges. Periodic attempts were made to revive the group by James Mason, Karl Hand, and others. These attempts were unsuccessful.

National Socialist League

The National Socialist League was an organization in Los Angeles and San Francisco for homosexuals. Homosexuals were not allowed in NS or related groups, which in fact were vociferously anti-homosexual. Thus, the NSL was in a category of its own, seeking to combine National Socialism with “the struggle for sexual liberation.” The NSL was founded by Russell Raymond Veh, a former NSWPP activist who left the party after he belatedly discovered that it was hostile to his sexuality.

The NSL undertook no public activities. What its private activities were one can only imagine. It published a newsletter, initially called NS Kampfruf (no doubt plagiarized from Gerhard Lauck’s publication of the same name), but later changed to NS Mobilizer. The NSL lasted from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s.

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We will not chronicle or document the other groups listed at the beginning of this article. With the notable exceptions of the NA, the NSDAP/AO, and the NSM, these minor formations – some of them very minor indeed! – all tell the same story: A disgruntled NSWPP member declares himself to be the new Führer and proceeds to lead his corporal’s guard of followers into obscurity.

Taken together, these smaller groups cut a poor figure. Indeed, they hurt the overall prospects of American National Socialism by opening up the movement to ridicule, and by making it seem unappealing and unsavory to disaffected Whites who might otherwise consider National Socialism in a positive light. Yet for good or for ill, they are part of the historical record.

The next installment of this series will provide a critical analysis of the post-World War II National Socialist movement in America.

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References


Anonymous [Gerhard Lauck], The Fight Goes On! An Introduction to the NSDAP-AO, NSDAP-AO (Lincoln, Nebrska), 2020. An 80-page book discussing the history and strategy of the NSDAP-AO. Includes bibliography for further reading.

Anonymous [Dr. William L. Pierce], National Alliance Members Handbook, National Vanguard Books (Hillsboro, WV), 1993, 2005.

Anonymous [Joseph Charles Tommasi], “Building the Revolutionary Party,” Siege magazine, Number 2 (El Monte, California), Fourth Quarter 1974. Founder of the National Socialist Liberation Front expounds, for the first time, what is today known as the “accelerationist” strategy.

George, John and Wilcox, Laird, Nazis, Communists, Klansmen and Others on the Fringe: Political Extremism in America. Prometheus Books (Buffalo, NY), 1992. Includes information on the ANP/NSWPP, NRP, NSRP and other NS and pro-NS groups.

Griffin, Robert S., The Fame of a Brave Man’s Deeds: An Up-Close Portrait of White Nationalist William Pierce, 1st Books Library, 2001, ISBN 0-75960-933-0. In-depth biography of Dr. William L. Pierce written by a sympathetic academic scholar. It contains an account of his involvement with George Lincoln Rockwell and Matt Koehl, as well as an explanation of his religious and political beliefs.

Koehl, Matt, “Some Guidelines for the Development of the National Socialist Movement,” National Socialist World, Number 6, World Union of National Socialists (Arlington, Virginia), Winter 1968.

Lauck, Gerhard, The Education of an Evil Genius, Preuss (USA), 2014. Anecdotal autobiography of the founder of the NSDAP/AO. Contains behind-the-scenes look into the US and German movements and many important insights. Includes an account of the author’s illegal kidnapping and imprisonment by the German government, 1995-1999.

MacDonald, Andrew [Dr. William L. Pierce], The Turner Diaries, National Vanguard Books (Washington, DC) 1978, 1980, ISBN 0-937-94402-5 (2nd edition).

Neier, Ariyeh, Defending My Enemy: American Nazis, the Skokie Case, and the Risks of Freedom, E.P. Dutton (New York) 1979. Jew from the American Civil Liberties Union gives his first-hand account of the Skokie controversy.

Strom, Kevin Alfred [editor], The Best of Attack! and National Vanguard Tabloid, 1970-1982, National Vanguard Books (Arlington, Virginia), 1984, ISBN 0-937944-03-3. Portfolio format book containing selected articles from the National Youth Alliance and National Alliance tabloid newspapers Attack! and National Vanguard. Invaluable record of the NYA and early years of the NA.

Zeskind, Leonard, Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream, Farrar, Giroux Straus (New York), 2009, ISBN 978-0-374-10903-5. Professional Jewish “hate watcher” gives his take on the development of the White Nationalist movement from 1974 through 2004. Heavy emphasis on William Pierce and vanguard theory as it pertains to the movement.


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