Dan Burros

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Daniel Burros (March 5, 1937 – October 31, 1965) was an American neo-Nazi affiliated with several far-right organizations. Burros was once the third highest-ranking member of the American Nazi Party, and later a Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in New York. Within the far-right movement, Burros was known for the severity of his antisemitism. He edited several neo-Nazi periodicals and publications, including his newspaper The Free American, which became popular with fascists internationally. When The New York Times published an article revealing that he was Jewish, Burros killed himself. Born to a Russian Jewish family in the Bronx, Burros was enrolled in Hebrew school in Richmond Hill, Queens, where his bar mitzvah was held. He became antisemitic as a teenager. After serving in the Army for several years, he was discharged under honorable conditions in 1958 and joined the American Nazi Party in 1960. Burros left the party the next year alongside his close friend John Patler. Patler and...

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