Dan Burros
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Daniel Burros (March 5, 1937 – October 31, 1965) was a Jewish American who joined the American Nazi Party (ANP) and the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). While initially an ANP member, Burros became a Kleagle for the KKK's United Klans of America (UKA) in the aftermath of a falling-out between him and ANP founder George L. Rockwell. The UKA was the most violent white supremacist group within the KKK at the time.[1]
On October 31, 1965, Burros' Jewish heritage was exposed to the public by American journalist John McCandlish Phillips, Jr., who published an article about Burros in The New York Times. Some hours after the article was published, Burros committed suicide by shooting himself in the chest and then in the head. He was reportedly listening to music composed by German composer Richard Wagner prior to his death.[2]
He was highly influenced by American far-right theorist Francis Parker Yockey, who advocated the establishment of a pan-European empire.[3]
Early life
Daniel Burros was born to Jewish parents George and Esther Sunshine Burros in the Bronx. The family moved to Queens a few years later and Burros attended Hebrew school at Talmud Torah in
Military career
Burros expressed a desire to enter the
Political activity
Burros eventually joined the
In 1964, Burros and seven other neo-Nazis were convicted of trying to incite a riot at a civil rights demonstration. Each of them, including Burros, was sentenced to one to two years in prison. Burros was freed on bail pending an appeal.[7][8]
During the investigation into the assassination of John F. Kennedy, it was found that Lee Harvey Oswald had Burros listed in his address book.[3]
Suicide
Burros's Jewish background was made public in a
In a press conference, a morose George Lincoln Rockwell praised Burros's dedication. He took the opportunity to rail against Jews, whom he referred to as "a unique people with a distinct mass of mental disorders" and ascribed Burros's instability and suicide to "this unfortunate Jewish psychosis".[11] Despite the fact that Burros was a Jew and distrusted by his stormtroopers, Rockwell had wished to maintain at least a working relationship with him.
Analysis of being a self-hating Jew
Burros is sometimes cited as an example of a self-hating Jew. He was also influenced by Francis Parker Yockey's Imperium.[12]
The story of Dan Burros was also loosely adapted into
References
- ^ Ted Robert Gurr. Violence in America: The History of Crime. Sage, 2004. pages 142–143
- ^ The Believer DVD, "An Interview with Director Henry Bean", 2001
- ^ ISBN 1-57027-039-2.
- ^ Old Smoke: The Death of Daniel Burros: A Jewish Klansman who did more than just hate himself
- ^ a b From Jew to Jew-hater: the curious life (and death) of Daniel Burros. Archived February 4, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ )
- ^ "Neo-nazis Given Stiff Prison Terms, Denounced As 'hatemongers'". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 2015-03-20. Retrieved 2023-09-10.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-09-10.
- ^ State Klan Leader Hides Secret of Jewish Origin.
- ^ Bryk, William (25 February 2003). "Old Smoke: The Death of Daniel Burros: A Jewish Klansman who did more than just hate himself".
- ^ William H. Schmaltz, Hate: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party, 1999., Pg. 263
- New York Times. p. 1.
- ^ "Hulu - Lou Grant: Nazi - Watch the full episode now". Archived from the original on 2010-03-14. Retrieved 2010-12-20.
- 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.
External links
- Photograph of Dan Burros from the Detroit Free Press
- "Old Smoke: The Death of Daniel Burros: A Jewish Klansman who did more than just hate himself." by William Bryk in New York Press
- DAN BURROS: Reasons to Believe, by Joel Lewis, NY Press
- "Hate and Hypocrisy" Intelligence Report from the Southern Poverty Law Center