The Stormtrooper Magazine

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The Stormtrooper Magazine
Categories
  • News magazine
  • Political magazine
FrequencyQuarterly
Founded1964
Final issue1968
CountryUSA
Based in Arlington County, Virginia
Language English
OCLC 32019468

The Stormtrooper Magazine was the quarterly official publication of the American Nazi Party. The magazine was published in Arlington County, Virginia, the United States, between 1964 and 1968.

History and profile

The Stormtrooper Magazine was established by the American Nazi Party in 1964. [1] The magazine was headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. [1] It came out quarterly, and as of 1965 John Patler was its editor. [2] The party sent it and other materials to its affiliated members and organizations which sold them to gain financial support. [3]

The Stormtrooper Magazine was among the propaganda publications of the American Nazi Party. [4] One of its sections was devoted to the activities of the World Union of National Socialists. [3]

In the late 1960s the Australian National Socialist Party published a magazine with the same title. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 "The Stormtrooper magazine". Historical Society of Pennsylvania . Retrieved April 21, 2023.
  2. "The Stormtrooper Magazine [American Nazi Party publication]". Virginia Commonwealth University . Retrieved April 21, 2023.
  3. 1 2 Paul Jackson (2019). "Dreaming of a National Socialist World: The World Union of National Socialists (WUNS) and the Recurring Vision of Transnational Neo-Nazism". Fascism. 8 (2). doi: 10.1163/22116257-00802003 .
  4. Lee D. Baker (March 2010). "The Cult of Franz Boas and his "Conspiracy" to Destroy the White Race". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society . 154 (1): 14. JSTOR   20721523.
  5. Evan Smith (2020). "White Australia alone? The international links of the Australian far right in the Cold War era". In Daniel Geary; et al. (eds.). Global white nationalism. From apartheid to Trump. Manchester: Manchester University Press. p. 238. ISBN   978-1-5261-4708-0.