This talk investigates the transatlantic connections between German and American neo-Nazis from the 1970s through the rise of the Internet era in the 1990s. In tracing neo-Nazism beyond German borders, the project unearths an underacknowledged reality, which reshapes our understanding of the global far right today: the strengthening of German neo-Nazism was not only the homegrown or inevitable successor to the Third Reich, but rather also owed to mutual American influence. In the decades after Hitler, when the East and West German governments struggled to suppress Nazism, American neo-Nazis exploited the U.S. right to free speech and the increasing ease of global communications to circumvent German censorship laws, ship propaganda across the Atlantic Ocean, and galvanize a younger generation of German neo-Nazis who turned their hatred not only against Jews but also against immigrants, asylum seekers, Black Germans, and other “foreigners.” By uncovering the surprising mutual influence of the U.S. on the resurgence of German neo-Nazism, this research reconsiders the triumphalist Cold War narrative of America’s democratizing influence on post-fascist Germany, exposes the past difficulties of policing hate speech, and provides deeper context for the global resurgence of the far right today.