Links between the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party were revealed at a hearing before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Ralph Pryor, 33, an ex-policeman from Wilmington, Del., said he quit the Klan in disgust after Nazi involvement in a Klan rally at Rising Sun, Md., memorializing Daniel Burros, a New York Klansman and former Nazi Party member who committed suicide after disclosure that he was Jewish.
Mr. Pryor told the committee the affair was more like a “Nazi rally” than a Klan memorial service. He said that Nazi music was played, Hitler-style speeches delivered, and American Nazi “firing squads” participated. He said “I became sick to my stomach.”
Another witness, Roy Frankhauser, former member of the Nazi Party, National States Rights Party, and identified as grand dragon of the K.K.K. for Pennsylvania, was questioned to elicit information on Nazi links with the Klan. Committee investigator Donald Appell indicated Klan ties with the Nazis, stating that three Klansmen Mr. Frankhauser worked with in New York were formerly affiliated with the American Nazi Party.
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