Frank Collin

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Frank Collin
Collin in 1970
1st President of the National Socialist Party of America
In office
1970–1977
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byHarold Covington
Personal details
Born (1944-11-03) November 3, 1944 (age 80)
Chicago, Illinois
Political partyNational Socialist Party of America (1970–1977)
Other political
affiliations		American Nazi Party (c. 1960s)
ProfessionPolitical activist, New Age author
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Francis Joseph Collin (born November 3, 1944) is an American former political activist and Midwest coordinator with the

United States Supreme Court
to correct procedural deficiencies.

In 1979 Collin was convicted of child molestation and sentenced to seven years in prison, and he lost his position in the party. After being released early on parole from prison, Collin created a new career as a writer, publishing numerous books under the pen name Frank Joseph. He wrote

hyperdiffusionist
works.

Early life

Collin was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, where he attended local schools. His father, Max Frank Collin, was born Max Simon Cohn in Munich, Germany, on August 23, 1913,[1] the son of Jewish parents who were murdered in The Holocaust, and was a survivor of Dachau concentration camp.[2] Frank's mother, Virginia Gertrude née Hardyman, was born in Chicago on August 18, 1920, and was Catholic.[3]

Political activity

As a young man, Collin in the 1960s joined

assassinated on August 25, 1967. The falling out stemmed in part from published accounts by Max Collin, Frank's father, who said that he was a Jewish Holocaust survivor and had changed his name from Cohen (or Cohn) to Collin.[5][6][7] Frank Collin denied having Jewish roots and maintained that his father was not telling the truth.[7]

In 1970, Collin formed another organization, the National Socialist Party of America (NSPA). It attracted other disaffected members of the NSWPP,[4] as well as Michael Allen, Gary Lauck and Harold Covington.[8] Covington helped buy a building for the group which they called Rockwell Hall,[8] where Collin and some other members lived in a barracks in upper floor.[7] Collin ran for alderman of Chicago in 1975 and pulled 16% of the vote.[8]

The NSPA began holding anti-black demonstrations in Chicago's

United States Supreme Court to correct procedural deficiencies.[11][12]

Specifically, the necessity of immediate appellate review of orders restraining the exercise of First Amendment rights was strongly emphasized in

Martin Luther King had been attacked in 1966) instead of Skokie.[11][12] Collin's plan for his neo-Nazi group to march in uniforms through Skokie, which was heavily Jewish with numerous residents who were Holocaust survivors, generated public outrage and the media attention which Collin sought.[8][9]

Also in 1977, Koehl's NSWPP began a campaign in their paper White Power about Collin's father being Jewish, and offered $10,000 to anyone who could disprove the claim. This was not seen as credible until they managed to find and published what they stated were Max Simon Cohn's naturalization records. Collin and the NSPA leadership continued to deny the claim and said the images were fakes.[13]

Under unclear circumstances in the aftermath,

child molestation[14][17] and sentenced to seven years in prison at the Pontiac Correctional Center in 1979. He served three years.[14]

Author

Upon his release from prison, Collin "reinvented himself under the pseudonym of Frank Joseph, a New Age writer and a pagan worshiper".[17] His time in the Pontiac Correctional Facility in Illinois had coincided with the period when Russell E. Burrows worked there as a prison guard.[18] He subsequently wrote many books and articles in support of Burrows Cave, an alleged cache of ancient treasure in an unrevealed location, supposedly discovered by Russell Burrows in southern Illinois."[19] In 1987, he had his first New Age book published, The Destruction of Atlantis: Compelling Evidence of the Sudden Fall of the Legendary Civilization.

He wrote articles for Fate magazine, and he was also the editor of The Ancient American magazine.[20] The Ancient American focuses on what it says is evidence of ancient, pre-Columbian transoceanic contact between the Old World and North America, with the implication that all complex aspects of North America's indigenous cultures must have originated on other continents. The magazine's claims are similar to discredited nineteenth century theories, and as a result, they are considered dubious or exploitative by scholars.[21]

Books (as Frank Joseph)

  • The Destruction of Atlantis: Compelling Evidence of the Sudden Fall of the Legendary Civilization (Atlantis Research Publishers, 1987)
    OCLC 17424780

See also

References

  1. ^ Grossman, Ron (March 10, 2017). "Flashback: 'Swastika war': When the neo-Nazis fought in court to march in Skokie". Chicago Tribune.
  2. ISBN 9780810124455
    .
  3. ISBN 9780226662756
    .
  4. ^ a b c d Kaplan 2000, p. 60.
  5. New Media Investment Group. United Press International
    . Retrieved January 23, 2014.
  6. ISBN 978-0820309354
    .
  7. ^ a b c "Nazi denies Jewish blood, but dad claims otherwise". The Bulletin. Bend, Oregon: Western Communications. United Press International. April 24, 1970.
  8. ^ a b c d Kaplan 2000, p. 61.
  9. ^
    ISBN 978-1604538595
    . Retrieved January 21, 2014.
  10. ^
    ISBN 9780803297517
    . Retrieved January 21, 2014.
  11. ^ a b Grossman, Ron (March 10, 2017). "'Swastika war': When the neo-Nazis fought in court to march in Skokie". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved November 27, 2020.
  12. ^
    ISBN 9780762307562
    .
  13. ^ a b Kaplan 2000, p. 62.
  14. ^
    ISBN 9780815603962
    . Retrieved January 21, 2014. Covington, his rival for NSPA "power", made the fortuitous discovery (while rifling through Collin's desk) that the half-Jewish fuehrer also had a weakness for pedophilia and did not hesitate to photograph his dalliances with a number of young boys. As a result, Collin was sent to prison.
  15. ^ Kaplan 2000, p. 63.
  16. JSTOR 1191205
    .
  17. ^
    ISBN 9781250006714
    .
  18. S2CID 162312493
    .
  19. ISBN 9781591438519
    . Retrieved November 20, 2018.
  20. ISBN 978-1-58765-453-4
    .
  21. ISBN 978-0-299-16874-2
    .

Works cited
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