Until the mid-1960s, the National Socialist White People's Party had gone by the more familiar name: The American Nazi Party. The group's founder, George Lincoln Rockwell, had given it the new title shortly before his assassination in 1967.
By the 1970's, however, the group had begun to split apart and had lost much of its relevance. Jim Rosenstock believes the newly found Nazi memorial marker is from that time.
The party didn't entirely cease to exist until 1983 so the stone may have been carved more recently.
As for now, the memorial presents a conundrum. It is certainly something that should have been left on public property, but there is nothing in any handbook that says what to do with it.
--GreGen
My Cooter's History Blog has become about 80% World War II anyway, so I figured to start a blog specific to it, especially since we're commemorating its 70th anniversary and we are quickly losing this "Greatest Generation." The quote is taken from Pearl Harbor survivor Frank Curre, who was on the USS Tennessee that day. He died Dec. 7, 2011, seventy years to the day. His photo is below at right.
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