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Koehl in 1974

Matthias Koehl Jr. (January 22, 1935 – October 9, 2014) was an American neo-Nazi politician and religious leader who served as the second leader of the American Nazi Party from 1967 to 2014. He joined the party in 1960 following membership in various White supremacist groups, and succeeded to leadership following the assassination of the founder of the party, George Lincoln Rockwell, in 1967. In the 1980s, Koehl renamed the organisation the New Order and transformed it into a religious organisation, influenced by the fascist writer Savitri Devi. The New Order promoted occult veneration of Adolf Hitler.

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  • Adolf Hitler is National Socialism, just as National Socialism is Adolf Hitler.
    • 1968, quoted in Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke (2002), p. 16
  • I was born a racist, I never could see the sense of mixing of blacks and whites, It's highly indecent. I've always believed in the establishment of an all-white America.
    What we know is coming is race war. Race war is just around the corner in historical terms. We expect there will be a serious American defeat in Vietnam because of the administration's no-win policy.
  • Adolf Hitler was born on Earth. He became flesh and blood. He fought, and he died.
    • "Resurrection", April 1987, quoted in Goodrick-Clarke 2002, p. 17
  • Hitler lives in our very own hearts and minds.... Our Leader is risen. He is risen indeed!
    • "Resurrection", April 1987, quoted in Goodrick-Clarke 2002, p. 17
  • We can make a start... and whether it takes 50 years, 100 years, 500 years or 1,000 years, the important thing is that one day—sooner or later—the cause of Adolf Hitler does indeed prevail on this earth.
    • 1991 speech, quoted in Goodrick-Clarke 2002, p. 17
  • We are the very same Movement which arose in 1919, which was crushed in 1945, which was resurrected under the inspired leadership of Lincoln Rockwell, and which has persisted in a continuous, unbroken line up to this day.
    • 1994, quoted in American Fuhrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party by Frederick J. Simonelli (1999), p. 141
  • He is our law and guide as Aryans for all time to come. He is our hope, our redemption.
    • On Adolf Hitler from Faith of the Future p. 31, quoted in Goodrick-Clarke 2002, p. 18
  • They altered the national demography and introduced us to integration, busing, Affirmative Action, minority quotas, sensitivity training, Black History and-the Holocaust. They gave us permissiveness, drugs, MTV and teen suicide. They gave us safe sex and unsafe streets and gun control. They gave us rock 'n roll and rape-counseling centers. They gave us 'alternative lifestyles,' sodomy, AIDS, filth, perversion, chaos, crime, corruption, dumbing down and insanity of every kind.
    • 1995 New Order brochure "We fought on the wrong side", quoted in Goodrick-Clarke 2002, p. 18
  • If Adolf Hitler stands as the author of National Socialism, then Commander Rockwell is certainly the St. Paul of the new Aryan creed.
    • quoted in Simonelli (1999), p. 122
  • Whoever did it, it is of benefit only to the blacks and Jews of this country. It is a defeat for every white man. He was my commander. I think he'll go down in history as one of the greatest living Americans and one of the greatest white men of all time....I believe that despite what happened here, his death will inspire a victory for the white men of the country.... He wanted his work to go on.
    • Following the murder of Rockwell in 1967, quoted in Hate: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party by William H. Schmaltz (1999), p. 325
  • Today we have only the rudiments. We are laying a foundation. The elaboration of our doctrines and the development of those formal usages and structures, such as one normally associates with the older religions, will involve the work of generations and centuries. But what is time when one is talking seriously about religion? How long did the Christians have to wait for Constantine to deliver a decadent Roman Empire into their hands? How often over the millennia did Diaspora Jewry repeat the ancient formula, "Next year in Jerusalem?" If it be the will of heaven, we too can tarry a bit.
    • Communication with William H. Schmaltz 30 January 1998, quoted in Schmaltz (1999), p. 337
  • [Neo-Nazi skinheads are] homeless orphans, the pitiful product of alienation and anomie in a society which they correctly perceive as offering them nothing but hostility and hopelessness ... the crude rage of the disenfranchised. Their reaction is to strike out—here and now—to get it out of their systems, regardless of any possible consequences. But using their bald heads as battering rams, rather than instruments of higher thought, is hardly a recipe for success. Such immature behavior tends toward puerile yahooism, moronic spectacle and worse, and is therefore counterproductive to the efforts of any constructive cause.
    • Speaking to William H. Schmaltz, 30 January 1998, quoted in Schmaltz (1999), p. 340–341

Quotes about Koehl

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  • As for me, I would rather shoulder axe (sic) & musket & march off into the savage wilderness to face unknown terrors, than to remain a part of an organization that is solely run by your personal whim and fancy. You say you are a leader, but you cannot make decisive decisions. You print that Matt Koehl is National Socialism, but refuse to reunify the entire movement, the reason is that you are the man who splintered it to start with. Your paranoic (sic) refusal to delegate authority has insured the Party's future to be that of a 3rd rate mail business, which is constantly on the brink of disaster. I CHARGE YOU WITH TREASON TO THE MOVEMENT.
    • A resignation letter to Koehl from fellow neo-Nazi James Burford, May 1981, quoted in Kaplan (2000), p. 31
  • Matt Koehl is now, and always has been, a cultist who worships the past at the expense of the future. He can quote extensively from almost every German manual, but is completely lost when the time comes to put those words into action. If given an ironclad guarantee tomorrow for worldwide WHITE POWER, with the one stipulation being that the name of Adolf Hitler never be mentioned again, Matt Koehl would reject the offer.
    • "The White Party Report" by Max Amman, quoted in Kaplan (2000), p. 456
  • Ironically, Koehl's tenure saw both the high-water mark and the functional end of the National Socialist movement in America. Always minuscule, the ranks of the "organized" American National Socialist community attracted, in the immediate post-Rockwell period, a small but steady stream of the committed and the curious. Koehl thus appeared to outside observers to work on two concurrent tracks: a highly successful effort to anger and alienate the old guard while simultaneously leaving the new recruits with such a bad taste in their mouths that many left the movement, and others became lifelong enemies of the new Commander. It was by all accounts a singular performance. The roster of those harried from the National Socialist White People's Party reads like a virtual "Who's Who" of American National Socialism.
  • Koehl's primary legacy, however, lies less in his contributions to American National Socialism than in his example of survival in the vortex of a movement famous for its tendency to devour its own.
    • Kaplan (2000), p. 155
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