Dan Burros

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 magazine The International Nazi Fascist, which became popular with neo-Nazis. When The New York Times published an article revealing that he was Jewish, Burros killed himself.

• If I can't do this, nothing else is worth living for. There would be nothing else left for me to do. If I fail at this, there's nothing else. I can't do anything else.
  • Talking to a friend about joining the military, quoted in A. M. Rosenthal and Arthur Gelb, One More Victim, (1968), p. 39
• I have swallowed twenty aspirin tablets. I consider this a fatal dose.
  I am taking my life as I have nothing more to live for. I had hoped to see the revival of National Socialism. I see now our case is hopeless.
  We can easily deceive the decadent democracies, but the Soviets are the new Herrenvolk. Now that there is no more chance for the NSDAP [National Socialist Deutsche Arbeit Partei], I no longer have a motive for saving the forces of the decadent democracies. To them I will eternal damnation. I go to my Führer Hitler, Der Grosse in the Third Reich that endures forever. Sieg Heil. Heil Hitler.
  • His 1958 (failed) suicide note, quoted in Rosenthal & Gelb (1968), p. 43
• I thank you so much for your letter. I agree with you that Christianity was a great disaster for the Nordic. This doctrine is alien to him and destructive to his nature. I myself am a bitter enemy of this doctrine of weakness—for that is what it is. I would like very much if you could sometime give me what your husband thinks a good program for a Nordic party would be. I would like his detailed political views. I have very great respect for his views and I think I could learn a great deal from him. I have of course my own ideas, but I am still young and still can learn a lot. Only a fool is not anxious to learn. I admire Hitler very much, but one of his faults was he wasn't willing to listen to others.
  • March 29, 1960 letter to a fellow fascist, quoted in Rosenthal & Gelb (1968), p. 66
• Struggle is an elemental part of nature. Without struggle civilizations wither and die. To remain young and virile, civilizations must be watered by blood and tears....
  Why do we advocate gas chambers for traitors? The extent of traitors' conspiracy requires a large scale method of execution. Also the tradition exemplified by gas chambers drives traitors frantic and helps expose them....
  One of the great jokes of modern times is the way National Socialists utilize the institutions of liberalism to destroy said institutions. An example is our "use" of the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU is forced to give us legal aid. If they do not help us it makes it apparent that they are only interested in defending the "liberties" of left-wing groups. The sword with which we smite the ACLU is double-edged. Firstly they have to give legal aid to Nazis whom they hate and secondly they lose much support. A good deal of their contributions come from Jews. It can be well imagined that Jews do not relish paying legal fees for Nazis. Therefore contributions to the ACLU drop.
  Mass psychology. The mass is decidedly feminine. They admire strength and force. The masses say no, but what they mean is force me to say yes to what I really want but won't admit.
  And about the "Jewish motivation":
  The startling answer to the Jewish enigma is that the Jews are insane. The Jews as a race are paranoid. This sick people must be stopped before they drag the world down with them.
  • The Official Stormtrooper's Manual, quoted in Rosenthal & Gelb (1968), pp. 107–108
• The enemies of the white race would emasculate us by having us believe that our sound instincts are some horrible heresy called "racism" and any attempts of the white race to defend itself are called "murder" and "war crimes." Let us cast aside notions that have been planted in our minds by a thorough system of brainwashing. Away with hypocrisies and lies! Let us face the truth! Man is a killing organism! He must kill to survive. He must kill to advance.... The enemies of the white race have been trying to destroy it, by weakening the white man's will to fight (which of course means to kill). Let us rip aside this veil of lies and hypocrisy.... Let us show them who is the natural elite... who is the world's greatest killer! White man! Unsheath your terrible sword! Slay your enemies. Kill! Kill! Kill!
  • "The Importance of Killing" in Burros's Kill! magazine (1962), later reprinted (partially) in Apocalypse Culture (1987) and quoted in Rosenthal & Gelb, pp. 115–116
• I'm ruined, I'm finished, I've got to end it all. I'm going to go down and blow up the House Committee. I'm going to blow up The New York Times [...] I met a reporter and he dug it up. I admire the man, he's brilliant. He's researched me beyond belief. He found out something that I just can't live with.
  • Upon learning that he was to be outed as Jewish, October 30, 1965, quoted in Rosenthal & Gelb, p. 163
• Roy, long live the white race, God bless you, so long, Gina. Long live the white race. I've got nothing more to live for.
  • His final words, quoted in Rosenthal & Gelb, p. 167

• Of course, there are some good Jews, you know, Jews like Dan Burros, who was a friend of mine. Yeah, print that some of my best friends are Jews. Dan Burros was one of the most patriotic, dedicated Americans you'll ever meet in your life.
  • Roy Frankhouser, fellow neo-Nazi and Klansmen, his friend. Quoted in George and Wilcox 1992, p. 285
• I would stake my life on Dan's complete and dedicated sincerity. [...] [He] could not tolerate the possibility that he would be completely ostracized by all his former comrades in the struggle to perpetuate white civilization hence a completely noble patriot whose hatred for the Jews had assumed vitriolic proportions because of his own intimate knowledge of their destructive effect upon western culture, which Dan had adopted as his own, saw fit to blast himself into oblivion as final proof of his loyalty.
  • James H. Madole in the National Renaissance Bulletin, neo-Nazi and Burros associate, quoted in Rosenthal & Gelb, p. 173
• I felt sad. I knew that Dan Burros had been caught in a net of evil that had pulled him down to death at twenty-eight. I said, "What I think we've seen here is the God of Israel acting in judgment."
  • McCandlish Phillips, the journalist who had published the expose, quoted in Rosenthal & Gelb, p. 171
• Most men hate something of what is within them, but most men do not find the world telling them over and over, "You are right to hate yourself." Dan Burros did. A Jew, he was on trial. As a man of weakness, he sought explanation for his inadequacies. He found the explanation of his weakness in his Jewishness, and convicted himself—of existing as he was. He despised the weakness of the victim and the one overwhelming irony of the life of Dan Burros was that he became an example of the quintessential Jewish victim—the Jew who confesses that the diseased fantasy in the mind of the anti-Semite is truth. Having confessed, Dan Burros sought to escape punishment. The only way he could do this was to identify himself with the aggressor, the man of strength, and become himself a judge of the Jews.
  • A. M. Rosenthal and Arthur Gelb, One More Victim, (1968), p. 61
• Nobody ever found the whole answer because nobody knew it, including Daniel Burros himself. [...] Because, of course, Daniel Burros had ceased to live long before that Sunday in Reading. The fire of his hatred of himself and his origins had burned up his entire personality, without which no man can live. He had already chosen the slow suicide of self-denial and masquerade. Sunday in Reading simply relieved him of the agony.
  • A. M. Rosenthal and Arthur Gelb, One More Victim, (1968), p. 176
• With his suicide, Burros ended his miserably sad life of lies. There will be countless explanations as to why Burros killed himself. Was it because of idealism? Honor? His only way out? Insanity? Regardless of the reasons the Burros Episode is but one more indication of the madness of the people known as "Jews." Although the Jews, as a group, are part of the White Family of People, they are a unique people with a distinct mass affliction of mental disorders that distinguishes them from the rest of the White Family of People. The Jewish masses are afflicted with the symptoms of paranoia: delusions of grandeur, delusions of persecution. The Jews believe themselves to be "God's Chosen People" and they eternally complain about "persecution" with increasing frequency.
  Dan Burros was the prototype of this unfortunate Jewish psychosis. It cost him his life.
  • George Lincoln Rockwell in The Stormtrooper, quoted in Rosenthal & Gelb (1968), pp. 173–174 & in Schmaltz (2000), p. 263
• Burros hated himself and his Jewishness, and went a step further, planning to MURDER them all.
  It killed him.
  • Rockwell in The Rockwell Report, quoted in Kaplan (2000), p. 34
• Psychologically, this man is essentially an immature, emotional, unstable person who is engaged in much childish fantasy. He tends toward impulsive actions and is obviously unable to handle stress in a mature manner. I do believe that he is pretending to be more disturbed than he is. However, it is unlikely that punishment or counseling would help this condition. The immaturity is of such severity and such chronicity that his retention in service will only result in further failure to adjust. [...] It should be noted that in spite of his seemingly peculiar behavior he is not psychotic and is not truly suicidal. In my opinion, the soldier is not insane, possesses sufficient mental capacity to know the difference between right and wrong, should be able to adhere to the right and refrain from the wrong and is considered to be mentally responsible for his acts. This condition is not amenable to hospitalization, treatment, disciplinary action, training, transfer to another station or organization or reclassificationto another type of duty. This soldier has no mental or physical disease or defect which warrants disposition through medical channels.
  Recommendation: It is recommended that no further attempt at rehabilitation of this soldier be made since it is believed that he is useless to the service and further such attempts should be of no avail. This soldier should be placed before a board of officers with a view to separation from the service under the provisions of Art. 635–209 because of unsuitability.
  • Military psychiatrist Carl B. Schleifer, from his army separation report, quoted in Rosenthal & Gelb (1968), p. 45

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