12 Facts About Frank Collin

Francis Joseph Collin was born on November 3,1944 and is an American former political activist and Midwest coordinator with the American Nazi Party, later known as the National Socialist White People's Party.

Frank Collin wrote New Age and "hyperdiffusionist" works supporting the pseudoarchaeological idea that Old World peoples had migrated to North America in ancient times and created its complex societies of indigenous peoples.

Frank Collin was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, where he attended local schools.

Frank Collin's father, Max Frank Collin, was born Max Simon Cohn in Munich, Germany, on August 23,1913, the son of Jewish parents who were murdered in The Holocaust, and was a survivor of Dachau concentration camp.

Frank Collin's mother, Virginia Gertrude nee Hardyman, was born in Chicago on August 18,1920, and was Catholic.

Frank Collin broke with the NSWPP due to a disagreement with Rockwell's successor, Matt Koehl, who was elected as the party leader by popular vote after Rockwell was assassinated on August 25,1967.

Frank Collin denied having Jewish roots and maintained that his father was not telling the truth.

In 1970, Frank Collin formed another organization, the National Socialist Party of America, later known as the American Nazi Party.

Also in 1977, Koehl's NSWPP began a campaign in their paper White Power about Frank Collin's father being Jewish, including publications of what they stated were Max Simon Cohn's.

Frank Collin was convicted of child molestation and sentenced to seven years in prison at the Pontiac Correctional Center in 1979.

Frank Collin subsequently wrote many books and articles in support of Burrows Cave, an alleged cache of ancient treasure in an unrevealed location, supposedly discovered by Russell Burrows in southern Illinois.

Frank Collin wrote articles for Fate magazine, and he was the editor of The Ancient American magazine.