National Socialist World

{{Infobox magazine

| title = National Socialist World

| image_file = National Socialist World, issue 1, Spring 1966.jpg

| image_caption = First issue cover, spring 1966

| editor = William Luther Pierce

| category = Neo-Nazism

| frequency = Quarterly

| publisher = World Union of National Socialists

| firstdate = 1966

| finaldate = 1968

| finalnumber = 6

| country = United States

| based = Arlington, Virginia

| language = English

| oclc = 1759410

}}

National Socialist World was a quarterly neo-Nazi journal published by the World Union of National Socialists (WUNS), established in 1966. It was published out of the WUNS headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, and edited by William Luther Pierce. It ceased publication in 1968, after publishing only 6 issues.

History

The World Union of National Socialists (WUNS) launched the journal in 1966, a fulfillment of the organization's aim to make a journal as an ideological outlet for its international Nazism. The magazine was published out of Arlington, Virginia, where the WUNS headquarters were located.{{sfn|Jackson|2019|p=284}}{{sfn|Goodrick-Clarke|2001|p=13}} The paper was read by neo-Nazis internationally,{{sfn|Jackson|2019|p=298}} and other neo-Nazi periodicals would later reprint its content.{{sfn|Jackson|2019|pp=291–292}}

George Lincoln Rockwell appointed as editor William Luther Pierce, a relative newcomer to the organization and a physicist. He would later found the neo-Nazi group the National Alliance.{{sfn|Jackson|2019|p=284}}{{sfn|Goodrick-Clarke|2001|p=13}} The second issue stressed the need for funds to pay for the publication's operations, which likely did not come as it shut down shortly after. For donating $100, one was considered a "Friend", for $1,000, a "Benefactor", and for $10,000 one became a "Patron". It published six issues, with the last issue being published in winter 1968.{{sfn|Jackson|2019|p=284}}{{sfn|Whitsel|1995|p=120}}

The magazine was intended to be published quarterly, and every issue was at least 100 pages.{{sfn|Whitsel|1995|p=120}}{{sfn|Goodrick-Clarke|2001|p=14}} Chiefly a vehicle for Pierce's writings, his editorials argued in favor of preparation for a future guerrilla war against the American government.{{sfn|Whitsel|1995|p=138}}{{sfn|Kaplan|2000|pp=318–319}} It was one of three major American Nazi Party publications, in addition to The Rockwell Report and The Stormtrooper Magazine.{{sfn|Kaplan|2000|p=318}} Unlike those periodicals, which were chiefly meant for internal reading and recruitment, National Socialist World was targeted at an intellectual audience and focused more on racial theory, philosophy, as well as religion and the history of the supposed "Aryan race".{{sfn|Whitsel|1995|p=120}}{{sfn|Kaplan|2000|p=318}}

Its first editorial defined its aim as acting "as a beacon and a buoy for those of our race whose intellectual and spiritual leadership we must attract and utilize if we are to survive". It featured essays from a variety of figures in the international neo-Nazi movement, as well as translations of foreign texts or commentary on texts. The first issue of the magazine contained excerpts of writing by fascist writer Savitri Devi, including a shortened version of her 1956 book The Lightning and the Sun. Other works included in the first issue included a discussion of propaganda by Rockwell and Colin Jordan's arguments on the philosophical elements of National Socialism as an ideology. Later issues included letters which sometimes criticized earlier ones, for example one from WUNS founder Ludtke which criticized Rockwell's ideas on propaganda.{{sfn|Jackson|2019|p=284}}{{sfn|Kaplan|2000|pp=318–319}}{{sfn|Whitsel|1995|p=120}} Later issues also included Devi's works, including another book, Defiance.{{sfn|Kaplan|2000|p=319}} Also included were book reviews.{{sfn|Whitsel|1995|p=120}}

In one article, Matt Koehl praises Adolf Hitler as being a visionary for the "Aryan racial revival"{{sfn|Goodrick-Clarke|2001|p=16}} Following Rockwell's assassination, Pierce wrote a hagiography about his life for the magazine, entitled "George Lincoln Rockwell: A National Socialist Life". This was part of a broader heroization of Rockwell within the movement.{{sfn|Jackson|2019|p=285}} In the final issue was included another essay from Koehl, who succeeded Rockwell as leader following his assassination.{{sfn|Jackson|2019|p=284}} The editorial of this issue also emphasized revolutionary aspects of their ideology, saying that:{{sfn|Jackson|2019|p=285}}

{{Blockquote|text=the conflict seems inevitable, for before our struggle is over each and every criminal comprising the present System will have a pretty good idea what fate awaits him at our hands [...] a triumphant National Socialism will mean not only a permanent end to their whole way of life, but an end to life itself for many of them.}}

References

= Works cited =

{{Cite journal |last=Jackson |first=Paul |date=2019-12-17 |title=Dreaming of a National Socialist World: The World Union of National Socialists (wuns) and the Recurring Vision of Transnational Neo-Nazism |journal=Fascism |language=en |volume=8 |issue=2 |pages=275–306 |doi=10.1163/22116257-00802003 |issn=2211-6257|doi-access=free }}
{{Cite book |last=Goodrick-Clarke |first=Nicholas |author-link=Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke |title=Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity |title-link=Black Sun (Goodrick-Clarke book) |publisher=New York University Press |year=2001 |isbn=978-0-8147-3124-6 |language=en}}
{{Cite book |last=Kaplan |first=Jeffrey |author-link=Jeffrey Kaplan (academic) |title=Millennialism, Persecution, and Violence: Historical Cases |title-link=Millennialism, Persecution, and Violence |publisher=Syracuse University Press |year=2000 |isbn=978-0-8156-2809-5 |editor-last=Wessinger |editor-first=Catherine |editor-link=Catherine Wessinger |pages=299–322 |language=en |chapter=Real Paranoids Have Real Enemies: Genesis of the ZOG Discourse in the American National Socialist Subculture}}
{{Cite journal |last=Whitsel |first=Brad |date=1995-12-01 |title=Aryan visions for the future in the West Virginia Mountains |journal=Terrorism and Political Violence |language=en |volume=7 |issue=4 |pages=117–139 |doi=10.1080/09546559508427321 |issn=0954-6553}}

National Socialist World

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