Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime

by Ron Stallworth

This is yet another incongruity in the Ku Klux Klan and among most other white supremacist groups. They profess to subscribe to the highest ideals of Americanism—celebrating the U.S. Constitution and hailing the American flag in the process—yet they rank among their pantheon of heroes the likes of Adolf Hitler while singing the praises of the National Socialist movement (Nazi Party) he founded, which led the world to the brink of destruction over sixty years ago. Listed in that pantheon is George Lincoln Rockwell, a decorated American World War II and Korean War Navy commander who founded the American Nazi Party. The KKK salutation is even a reflection of the Nazi influence (a raised right arm, palm down, similar to that of the Nazi salute seen so often in newsreel footage of Nazi soldiers).