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The movement came about when the leader of the American Nazi Party , George Lincoln Rockwell , visited England and met with National Socialist Movement chief Colin Jordan and the two agreed to work towards developing an international link-up between movements. This resulted in the 1962 Cotswold Declaration which was signed by representatives from the United States , Britain , France , West Germany and others. Other member nations would join later throughout the decade. Following Rockwell's assassination in 1967 , conrol of the WUNS passed to Matt Koehl , who attempted to extend the influence of the group by appointing Danish neo-Nazi Povl Riis-Knudsen as general secretary. However a split began to develop over the insistence of Koehl that Nazism should also serve as a religion, and eventually he broke away from the WUNS to lead his own version of Nazi Mysticism . The split fundamentally weakened the WUNS and its influence declined strongly, despite attempts by Jordan to reinvigorate it. |
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