The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds - 34 - Dan Burros - Smollop

Episode Date: November 20, 2014

Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds examine American Nazi Party bigshot Dan Burros.Tour Dates Dollop MerchSourcesPatreon

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nice March 5th 1937 where are you gonna be then Daniel Burroughs son of George and Esther Sunshine Burroughs was born in Queens New York okay in his high school his IQ was measured at 154 okay his grades at John Adams high school ranged from 85 to 95 in most subjects in adolescence he became intense even fairly hysterical playing every game as if his life depended on it breaking into a sweat if he feared he was losing his classmates mocked him constantly he was always getting into fights he talked compulsively of his desire to enter West Point and filled his notebook with sketches of soldiers and tanks I got a

bad feeling he even enlisted in the National Guard while he was still in high school wearing his uniform to class on drill days well that must have stopped the mockery like a uniform to make the kids nice in his junior year of high school he began filling his notebooks with drawings of German tanks and papering his better walls with photographs of German generals good these are these are the heroes you want on your wall yeah like this what most kids did that's what you want to look up to in 1950 real deal is after the just after the they're hot then they're hot still hey the Germans are okay right yeah hey

isn't just me or was Germany right on hello hello hello anybody he never applied for West Point instead after graduation in 1955 he enlisted in the army he told one friend that if he couldn't become a soldier he had nothing left to live for lighten up yeah hey hey take it easy he sounds like an army commercial burrows was a terrible paratrooper he was overweight poorly coordinated and slow he wore thick lens glasses that made his eyes look larger than they were oh so what I don't know why he was picked on yeah so and also if he's so

serious about this why is he overweight thank you he's such like a super like he's this is the only thing I can do it's either this or I die who fries Hitler would like your big fat glass face yeah what would Hitler do with you take a shower the other enlisted guys in the barracks laughed at him he had no friends and after a short time he tried to commit suicide three times first he made a few shallow razor cuts on his wrist so all right if I may bullshit yeah try for cry for help help pick him up quit picking on me oh man look at this I tried to slit my wrist you can see it's a little red and

irritated right now I want out ice I try to scrape myself to death yeah I used a spoon it didn't go through next was an overdose of aspirin I mean look I don't want to nitpick these are 10 but he's really going with the ones that are cries for help hey my headache's gone am I dead I took nine aspirin whoa my tummy finally he tried the razor on the wrist again but again too shallow he just tried it's hard to do it's hard to do it's hard to know where the blood is it's not an easy thing to do he did however leave a suicide note praising it off Hitler well that's when you really want to make sure these are deep cuts because if you

leave that behind in the army yeah no worse yeah okay so that's a hard thing to do hard to come back from that I was kidding the army discharged him by reasons of unsuitability character and behavior disorder and because you know Hitler yeah Bruce returned home in 1958 and worked as a printer at the Queensboro Public Library he was considered a focused and conscientious employee but there was just one drawback he talked non-stop about his admiration for Hitler and his hatred of the Jews where's nonfiction Hitler was great you know you want some real nonfiction I'll give you a little

nonfiction story Hitler was awesome where's where's Nazi fiction I'm actually writing some Nazi fiction nonfiction nonfiction nonfiction you know I think let me answer your question with a question wasn't Hitler a good-looking guy um you know what I mean I just I'm looking for Moby Dick mm-hmm mm-hmm that's all do you want to read my comp that's a lot like Moby Dick except the whales Jews so sorry I'm okay with it his parents what his parents knew about his what he was doing and they prayed it would go away in a spare time burrows operated the one-man American National Socialist

Party from a post office box in South Ozone Park he rubber stamped swastikas onto his letters and distributed flyers such as there's nothing wrong with America that a pogrom wouldn't cure he preached that the Jews must suffer and suffer and suffer and suffer and suffer and suffer and there's a little more on this other page and then oh back page says a little bit more suffering suffering well good as long as he's stamping as long as he's stamping the swastika that's good in 1960 Burroughs moved to Arlington Virginia he lived at the headquarters of the American Nazi Party he swore an oath and loyalties Adolf

Hitler and to George Lincoln Rockwell the American leader of the Nazi Party that was around ten years after his bar mitzvah well well well when he'd become a man assumed a man's responsibilities wow did I not mention that he was Jewish no I think that's the first mention of it not only Jewish a bar mitzvah Jew so like a practicing Jew yeah he went to a Hebrew school in Queens and a Queen synagogue and his teacher Moses Skyus at Burroughs was a star people his grandfather Avram Burroughs has a memorial tablet at the congregation sons of Israel and Queens so so not only was he a Jew he was a real deal Jew he's

a terrible Jew he's a bad Jew but at the time he was a real deal Holyfield Jew any who any Jew Betty Burroughs fanaticism and skill as a printer quickly raised him from the ranks of the Nazi Party up the ranks he became the party's national secretary its third highest office wow he received the party merit medal he was arrested four times for disorderly conduct and received a suspended sentence for vandalizing the anti defamation league oh that's nice so that so he's good it's terrible he's the worst you yeah you often carried a little bar of soap wrapped in green paper bearing the German words meaning

made from the finest Jew fat but not my grandfather yeah also is that a thing you want in yourself an advantage I mean I know Irish spring that's not made from the the fat of the Irish I'm assuming within 18 months Burroughs began doubting Rockwell's destiny I guess he was not as good at leading the Nazi American Nazi part as Burroughs thought he would be yeah at the same time his Jewish heritage was suspected by a number of fellow American Nazi Party members many of the stormtroopers distressed at Burroughs for not only being Jewish but also a self-hating Jew so they were onto well but what we know we think you're

self-hating well if I am a Jew I am self-hating I am here I don't think there's a huge revelation in that third from the top so you just keep saying oil all the time oh yeah I know nothing well it's bizarre behavior was what led them to Burroughs would sometimes bring Knish is it Knish yeah it is Knish right he's bringing human touch to the meanings Burroughs would sometimes bring a Knish to the American Nazi Party headquarters and makes make such statements as let's eat this good Jew food okay okay this is this is interesting burroughs often frequently spent time with Jewish women what the fuck is he

I hate to choose you want to go out on a date let's get some Knish you have a beautiful beautiful a lot of hunks but on November 5th 1961 Burroughs slipped out a window and returned home mom dad I'm back sorry about all that gonna kill you cuz you're a Jew and me also how is everything been a while Burroughs got a job at the Manhattan printing company he then joined other dissident Nazis in founding the American National Party it published kill magazine I love kill from headquarters I love kill have you read this article about killing yeah and kill yep they have the best killing articles oh page

two killing I love kill Burroughs signed his first editorial the importance of killing and called on the white race to kill kill kill build a mountain of corpses of traders from which you can glimpse the great future you do need a mountain of traders to see the future I've always said that oddly the magazine was not a big hit what kill wasn't surprising it did not get up there with time as far as readership goes man of the year kills man of the year honey I ordered you the new kill oh my god where's the new kill they have the best cartoons and kill the magazine folded within a year literally the squat blue

eyed and crew cut blonde hair Burroughs then hung out in Yorkville on the upper east side of Manhattan Yorkville was a center of New York Germans community the New York's German community and was a mecca for the extreme right Burroughs then joined the National Renaissance Party I mean how many are these getting merit badges so many of these parties a local fascist link with links to Arab regimes and South American Nazi exiles again Burroughs was dissatisfied James Madel the NRP's anemic asthmatic asthmatic leader didn't favor killing all Jews I mean what the fuck now he what are we here for trap and

release I mean this is why I've wanted to kill you since my birth mitzvah what are we doing here and we have little rubber pads that the Jews will walk on and their feet will get stuck and then we'll release them back in the Jewish communities well they won't take the cheese what do you want from us I think you're thinking of mice that's what I'm thinking of I get Jews and mice confused all the time in July 1963 the Congress for racial equality demonstrated against white castle diners claiming they discriminated against hiring blacks naturally the extreme

right counter demonstrated calling the protesters niggers and coons well they both have good points they both makes very interesting arguments they do on July 13th 1963 about a half dozen NRP supporters drove to a core demonstration at White Castle in the Bronx one of Madel's men shouted let's get out of here it smells like a zoo another roared what do you expect when there's nothing but niggers so this isn't gonna go well it's cool it's cool that's cool the good people listen it's I mean you know it's you shouldn't be able to think any race can just eat a piece of shit burger it's not just for

anybody a picketer attacked them the cops broke it up this is my favorite part then three NRP men drove to the nearest precinct and complained that the demonstrators had assaulted them oh my god so they're like just pure bitch yeah 100% if someone attacks at that point the detective noticed a fully loaded 22 caliber revolver loaded tear gas guns crossbow loaded with a steel tipped arrow a butcher knife switchblade straight razor and an axe in their truck so no officer that's just for Jews well that's because he heard our feelings so we've had to go get those these guys are so meat after we call them the n-word

and wouldn't let me eat White Castle everyone in the truck was arrested Madola and Burroughs were picked up later that day in May 1964 a jury convicted Burroughs of conspiracy riot and firearm possession his family bailed him out pending his appeal cool now Burroughs thought Madola was full of shit so he quit the NRP he's out why it seemed to be going so well it's so hard to find a decent right wing murder group it's not easy well you want to make sure you if you're gonna hit your wagon when you want to make sure it's the right one right yeah you just because then you'll find yourself in some of

these rallies you know and your heart's not gonna be in there oh you're like I don't know what I'm doing you don't wanna you listen if you hate more if you really want to be passionate about your racism and find the right family yeah that's that's what we're talking about absolutely he briefly published the free American the battle organ of racial fascism which he dated YF 76 YF meant year of the Fuhrer and counted from the birth of Hitler oh my god it hard got him hard got to make plans with you were you were doing regular calendar or fewer months I'll see you in 84 what 84 84 no it's it's the 60s see it 84 what

what's happening Hitler okay I the new Hitler calendar did you get your Hitler calendar I sent you a Hitler calendar I got you this card for your birthday it's not my birthday it is in fewer years it isn't your years today's your birthday yeah I'm following the Hitler calendar it's catching on it's catching on a lot of people are into it hallmarks making a Hitler calendar hallmarks all over it they're loving it in early 1965 he attended a revival of DW Griffith's the birth of a nation at the Museum of Modern Art it inspired as and who hasn't been inspired by that my lord he resumed that acquaintance with Roy

Frankenhauser a one-eyed grand dragon of Pennsylvania who introduced him yeah yeah one-eyed the one-eyed a one-eyed dragon he introduced a penis he introduced into Robert Shelton the Imperial Wizard a no-eared wizard Shelton almost immediately appointed Burroughs the grand dragon of New York rule over several dozen clansmen organized two clavins one in Yorkville and another on the waterfront in 1965 the House Committee on Un-American Activities subpoenaed Shelton and identified Burroughs and other clansmen this made the papers Burroughs have fired from his job the stories were

also noticed by a government agent who having investigated Burroughs knew his parents were Jewish he concluded Burroughs could be stopped only by his exposure as a Jew and telephoned a friend who knew someone at the New York Times there we go out the Jew a Jewish clansman who was the grand dragon of New York State seemed like it'd be a big news yeah story for yeah right yeah yes that seems like that's good that's a good story it's a good yes for sure yeah the editors assigned the story to John McClendish Phillips on Friday October 22nd 1965 Phillips tracked down Esther and George they wouldn't talk over the

next week the paper tracked Burroughs life from high school through the Army to fringe groups and magazines they found the record of his parents marriage which was a Jewish ceremony yeah Mazel tov Burroughs asked or Phillips asked Burroughs for an interview and he agreed they met they met in a luncheon at near Lefferts Boulevard in Queens a little before 9 a.m. on October 29th 1965 they went over the clansman's education his jobs and his military career he must have been loving it yeah yeah it's cool to finally get a profile on me I really have been killing it then Phillips asked Daniel Burroughs how he had become a Nazi the

20 year old Burroughs talked about his admiration of the Third Reich and his hatred of the Jews gloating that they're purging the United States would be far more violent than it had been in a civilized and highly cultured country like Germany what mm-hmm you know they were they really go too far enough in my opinion could be much more I have notes I have notes yeah what the what the Germans it was really highly civilized they were just cultured they were a little too cultured about it I think we should be more barbaric you know than killing an entire right yeah yeah I mean it wasn't done well it's all

I'm saying the conversation continued until Phillips murmured your parents are married by in a where parents are married in a Jewish ceremony you shut your fucking mouth that was when the interview ended Burroughs threatened to kill Phillips in the luncheon at the reporter called for the check that's that's always the order to go in I'm gonna kill you can we just get the check we get the check whenever I'm sorry I know you're in the middle of something I'm done with my my juice sandwich I'll take a doggy bag and I don't know about you but they stepped outside of Burroughs threatened to kill Phillips again the Times

reporter a devout and village and evangelical replied it is appointed unto men wants to die but after this the judgment okay so I don't like you want them right now yeah I mean that's what you say to a guy kill you fucking quote some scripture bullshit well at least at least if you're an evangelical you're at least consistent the idea of being a KKK Jew it's uh that's a hard one now that I'm on the side of evangelicals Burroughs said he was trapped he couldn't change and liked his life god damn it I've got a good thing going here shut up I've got an awesome life that's a Jew

mouth then they shook hands and Burroughs waddle the way sad the next day Saturday October 30th Times reporters confirmed that Burroughs had been bar mitzvah at Talmont Torah that's my favorite place to be met it's a good it's the best it's a good one on Sunday October 31st 1965 Dan Burroughs was at Frankenhower's residence in Reading Pennsylvania he went out early to buy the New York Times and apparently returned without reading it okay so okay hold on so you go so your whole life you're you're a Jewish guy you've joined the Klan yes you're now you're one of the top dogs your grand dragon you're

dragging the shit out of it yeah right you're breathing fire you're flapping your fucking dragon wizard and a guy with one eye things are good things are all you're basically the hobbit yes and then a reporter comes it says hey I know you're a Jew you've threatened to kill this report I'm gonna kill him and then a couple days later you go to buy the paper yes and you go back to your Klansman's buddy's house yes and you don't read the fucking paper right you just weird choice weird weird call he then looked at the front page and gasped oh my god that's me what the fuck is his problem front page in it I want to save

this for home boros then ran upstairs with Frankenhauser and several other Klansman behind him he dashed into Frankenhauser's bedroom grabbed a 32 caliber revolver from the bureau and turned to his friends he said I've got nothing left to live for and fired into his own chest ah Frankenhauser's girlfriend screamed then boros still standing said this will do it and raised the gun to his head and pulled the trigger his last words were this will do it I definitely want those to be my last words this will do it Frankenhauser called the reading police and the corner pronounced boros dead the

reading police called what the reading police called the NYPD the NYPD called George and Esther boros they caught a late bus missed a connection in Philadelphia and sat up all night at the terminal they arrived at reading the next morning on the way to the hospital to identify the body Esther said over and over he was such a good boy was I'm gonna dispute that he was a good boy him being a Jew and wanting to kill all Jews that's when he became a bad man he was a good boy he became a bad man and a press conference a morose George Lincoln Rockwell praised boros dedication I mean for a Jew I will say was awesome I'm

glad he's dead but there's a special place for that Jew in my heart I mean he had a bit of a handicap from my black heart which I also hate the race of my heart he took the opportunity to rail against Jews who he referred to as slaves made of Jews in general who are just pieces of garbage am I right whom he referred to as a unique people with a distinct mass of mental disorders and ascribed boros instability and suicide to this unfortunate Jewish psychosis that's a shame you know what he could have been one of the best he could have been one of the best Jew haters except he had a job right he had a Jew brain so problem

I mean right there you know we're in the rabbit hole he was one of the good ones despite the fact that burrs was a Jew and distrusted by his fellow stormtroopers Rockwell had wished to maintain at least a working relationship with him sweet it's really it's really sweet it's a good story it's a good story I do like how as it seems just like the history of man is always based around groups just despising groups for no real reason none and it just continues forever I would I would imagine that he his Jewish hatred came hatred came from being picked on in school yeah at a Jewish school so he decided that I even I've known like Jews

who are like I'm almost anti-Semitic yeah yeah you know there's people who are Jews who are just like they're so cool they're annoyed by by their their fellow Jews yes but never to the point where you kill them all being like get rid of them get rid of me I mean what I'm gonna kill everybody and then me at the end it takes a real self-loathing to get there yeah that's yeah and you know it sucks but he was such a good boy we're such a good boy it's just such a good boy a good boy that's a smile up there you go