Dan Burros

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Daniel Burros
Suicide by gunshot
Known forBeing a Jewish member of the American Nazi Party and the Ku Klux Klan

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

bar mitzvah was held in 1950.[4]

Military career

Burros expressed a desire to enter the

cuts on his wrists. He praised Adolf Hitler in a suicide note. His discharge was ascribed to "reasons of unsuitability, character, and behavior disorder".[5]

Political activity

Burros eventually joined the

electric shocks via wires attached to the Jewish victim of their choice. He believed that the combination of music from the piano and the electric shocks would cause them to convulse in rhythm to the piano and provide entertainment. Another example is that he owned a bar of soap wrapped in paper with the words "made from the finest Jewish fat" imprinted on it.[5] According to the writer Martin Lee, "a former Nazi associate claimed that Burros enjoyed torturing dogs, including his own pet, Gas Chambers".[6]

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

"Spiders"
.

References

  1. ^ Ted Robert Gurr. Violence in America: The History of Crime. Sage, 2004. pages 142–143
  2. ^ The Believer DVD, "An Interview with Director Henry Bean", 2001
  3. ^ .
  4. ^ Old Smoke: The Death of Daniel Burros: A Jewish Klansman who did more than just hate himself
  5. ^ a b From Jew to Jew-hater: the curious life (and death) of Daniel Burros. Archived February 4, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^
    OCLC 858861623.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
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  7. ^ "Neo-nazis Given Stiff Prison Terms, Denounced As 'hatemongers'". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 2015-03-20. Retrieved 2023-09-10.
  8. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 2023-09-10.
  9. ^ State Klan Leader Hides Secret of Jewish Origin.
  10. ^ Bryk, William (25 February 2003). "Old Smoke: The Death of Daniel Burros: A Jewish Klansman who did more than just hate himself".
  11. ^ William H. Schmaltz, Hate: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party, 1999., Pg. 263
  12. New York Times
    . p. 1.
  13. ^ "Hulu - Lou Grant: Nazi - Watch the full episode now". Archived from the original on 2010-03-14. Retrieved 2010-12-20.

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