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The American Nazi Party’s Abduction of a Jewish Boy in 1961

By Andrew Sperling, Leon Levy Fellow

The American Nazi Party’s Abduction of a Jewish Boy in 1961

On a humid summer’s night in July 1961, thirteen-year-old Ricky Farber and his friends bounced around their suburban neighborhood in Arlington, Virginia. There, they stumbled upon an odd and frightening house draped in massive Nazi battle flags. What happened next would be a source of contention: Farber and…

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