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Masters Mondays: Charlie Clark, Journalist Falls Church News-Press “Grim Presence: The American Nazi Party in Arlington, Va., 1958-1983” (aired April 5, 2021)
Just a decade-and-a-half after the defeat of the German Nazi regime in World War II, an American Navy veteran and graphic designer named George Lincoln Rockwell chose Arlington County as his base of operations for his racist and anti-Semitic American Nazi Party. Why Arlington? Where were the locations of his various homes? What tactics did the Nazis use to protest and disrupt life downtown and in suburban Arlington? Why were followers attracted to Rockwell? How did he become internationally famous? How was he killed, where and why? This illustrated talk will answer all those questions and more about the shocking, and sometimes forgotten, presence of his malevolent force within the borders of Arlington–a presence his followers commemorated in 2017.

This talk is brought to you by the FOCUS on NoVA REAL Estate Team at Century 21 Redwood Realty on behalf of the Village Drive Village. Join us the first Monday of each month for more Masters Mondays.

Charlie Clark is a longtime journalist in the Washington, D.C. area who writes the weekly “Our Man in Arlington” column for the Falls Church News-Press. He has written two books, Arlington County Chronicles and Hidden History of Arlington County, both published by The History Press. His biography of George Washington Parke Custis will be released this fall by McFarland Books. In July 2019, he retired as senior correspondent for Government Executive Media Group, part of Atlantic Media. He previously has worked as an editor or writer for The Washington Post, Congressional Quarterly, National Journal, Time-Life Books, Tax Analysts and the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges. He lives in Arlington with his wife Ellen.

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