Dan Burros
Daniel "Dan" Burros (March 5, 1937 – October 31, 1965), was a former member of the United States Marine Corps who joined the American Nazi Party, which had been founded in Virginia by a former Naval aviator named George Lincoln Rockwell. Burros moved back to New York State and became the kleagle, or recruiter, of the state's Ku Klux Klan organization.
Dan Burros is sometimes cited as an example of a self-hating Jew. He was also influenced by Francis Parker Yockey's Imperium.[1]
After a New York Times reporter named McCandlish Phillips revealed that Dan Burros was, in fact, Jewish (something several members of the American Nazi Party had long suspected), he committed suicide. During a press conference after Burros' death, George Lincoln Rockwell railed against Jews, whom he called "... a unique people with a distinct mass of mental disorders" and ascribed Burros' instability and suicide to "this unfortunate Jewish psychosis".[2]
The story of Dan Burros was the origin of Henry Bean's movie, The Believer. It also inspired an episode of the TV series Lou Grant.
References
- ^ Phillips, McCandlish (1965-10-31). "State Klan Leader Hides Secret of Jewish Origin". New York Times. p. 1.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ William H. Schmaltz, Hate: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party, 1999., Pg. 263
- One More Victim: The Life and Death of an American-Jewish Nazi by A. M. Rosenthal and Arthur Gelb (New American Library, 1967)
- Henry Bean, The Believer: Confronting Jewish Self-Hatred. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2002. ISBN 1-56025-372-X.
See also
External links
- "From Jew to Jew-hater: the curious life (and death) of Daniel Burros" by William Bryk in New York Press
- "Hate and Hypocrisy" Intelligence Report from the Southern Poverty Law Center
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