National Socialist Vanguard

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The logo of the National Socialist Vanguard, as it appears of the masthead of their newsletter

The National Socialist Vanguard is a Neo-Nazi group founded in 1983 and led by Rick Cooper, based in The Dalles, Oregon, US, from about 1998.[1] It has focused its efforts on recruiting

high school students.[2]

History

Rick Cooper (1946–2006) began his National Socialist activism in 1970 when he set up a "

victory bonds", which would be redeemed after the Party took power. Cooper filed a lawsuit to recover his investments and suspended from membership.[3]

In a June 1980 letter, NSWPP membership secretary

National Socialist worldview and objectives. Cooper responded with an eleven-page missive refuting each charge and outlining his decade of National Socialist activism. Within twenty four hours of receiving the letter Lewitzke committed suicide.[4]

Cooper broke with the Koehl in 1982

quarterly newsletter NSV Report. The organization moved to Goldendale, Washington in the fall of 1985 and has been based in the Dalles, Oregon since at least October 1998.[6][7]

For a while the NSV had a business arm known as ST Enterprises, which would finance the NSV and provide jobs for activists. Businesses associated with the NSV included Nordic Carpet and Upholstery Cleaning, Hessian Janitorial Service, Quartermaster Laundry and Galactic Storm Troop Amusement Center, all located in Salinas. They intended to create a

white separatist enclave called Wolf Stadt. However ST Enterprises folded in 1986.[8]

By 2000 the NSV was advocating a

race war. Other than that they recommended that whites join the "legal, organization and political" vehicles of their choice. The NSV was financed by "basically by the activists themselves" and the NSV Report was financed by subscription rates and freewill donations.NSV Report differed from other White Nationalist publications in that it did not publish propaganda for "the masses", but rather was geared to activists, leaders and those who were already in the Movement, and reports on the Movements activities overall, and particularly in the Pacific Northwest, along with some "philosophical articles[9][10]

See also

  • Neo-Nazi groups of the United States

References

  1. ^ Kaplan, Jeffrey (2000). Encyclopedia of white power: a sourcebook on the radical racist right. Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press. p. 223.
    ISBN 0-7425-0340-2
    .
  2. ^ "Texas Police Central - The New Lexicon of Hate". Archived from the original on 2006-05-07. Retrieved 2006-07-06.
  3. ^ Kaplan pp.64-5, 428
  4. ^ Kaplan p. 65
  5. ^ In Memoriam: Rick Cooper (1946 - 2006)
  6. ^ Kaplan pp.65, 223-4
  7. ^ NSV Report: a quarterly overview of the National Socialist Vanguard Vol. 16 #4 Oct/Dec 1998 p.[1]
  8. ^ Kaplan pp.66, 223
  9. ^ Kaplan pp.223-4
  10. ^ NSV Report Vol. 16 #4 Oct/Dec 1998 "Operations" pp.[3-8]; Vol. 17 #2 April/June 1999 "Operations" pp.[3-7]. For the "philosophy" see "The Truth about blacks" Vol. 16 #4 Oct/Dec 1998 pp.[1-3], Vol. 17 #2 April/June 1999 "Guest editorial" pp.[1-3]
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