George P. Dietz
George P. Dietz | |
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 Dietz at his home in 1980 | |
| Born | February 22, 1928 |
| Died | April 23, 2007 (aged 79) Spencer, West Virginia, U.S. |
| Resting place | Eventide Cemetery, Spencer, West Virginia |
| Political party | American Party of West Virginia |
| Spouse | Elsbeth "Betty" Dietz |
George P. Dietz (February 27, 1928 – April 23, 2007) was a German born-American publisher and writer known for his far-right and neo-Nazi views.[1] The Anti-Defamation League consider him in 1980 as "the largest anti-Semitic propaganda mill in the United States."[2]
Biography
[edit]Dietz was born on April 23, 1928, in the Weimar Republic. His father was a member of the Sturmabteilung,[2] and during the Third Reich, Dietz was part of the Hitler Youth. In 1957, he emigrated to the United States and became a U.S. citizen in 1962 while living in New Jersey. Later, he moved to Roane County, West Virginia, where he worked as a real estate agent and owned a printing press.[1]
In later in May 1974 he joined the John Birch Society and started an American Opinion Bookstore in Reedy. With that he started to published the Liberty Bell that took part of the Kanawha County Textbook War using the JBS arguments of Communist conspiracy to promoted multiracialism. In 1975 he left the JBS due to anti-Semitic issues and the Liberty Bell started to publish neo-Nazi material.[3] Then he called Robert Welch a "Talmudic tool to for the destruction of the White People in America".[4]
He also started to published the neo-Nazi publication White Power Report, and the German neo-Nazi magazine Der Schulungsbrief through Liberty Bell Publications in which he also published anti-Semitic, neo-Nazi and Holocaust denier books.[5] Revilo P. Oliver was also a regular contributor to Liberty Bell.[6] He also distributed nazi memorabilia.[7] He later helped Louis Beam establish his BBS Aryan Liberty Network of the Aryan Nations and late he helped Tom Metzger to establish White Aryan Resistance bulletin.[8]
Citations
[edit]- ^ a b Simpson & Druxes 2015, p. 22.
- ^ a b Renfrew 1980.
- ^ Simpson & Druxes 2015, pp. 22–24.
- ^ Levitas 2004, p. 494.
- ^ Berlet 2001, p. 2.
- ^ Winston 2021.
- ^ Goodrick-Clarke 2003, p. 20.
- ^ Winter 2019, p. 42.
Works cited
[edit]- "Obituary". Times Record & Roane County Reporter. 2006. pp. 6A – via Google News.
- Berlet, Chip (2001). "When hate went online". New England Sociological Association.
- Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas (2003). Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity. NYU Press. ISBN 0814731554.
- Levitas, Daniel (2004). The Terrorist Next Door: The Militia Movement and the Radical Right. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 9781429941808.
- Simpson, Patricia; Druxes, Helga (2015). Digital Media Strategies of the Far Right in Europe and the United States. Lexington Books. ISBN 978-0739198827.
- Renfrew, Barry (1980). "Nazi Germany is alive and well--in the U.S." The Spokesman-Review. p. E6 – via Google News Archive.
- Winston, Andrew (2021). ""Jews will not replace us!": Antisemitism, Interbreeding and Immigration in Historical Context". American Jewish History. 105 (1). Johns Hopkins University Press: 1–24. doi:10.1353/ajh.2021.0001. ISSN 1086-3141. S2CID 239725899 – via Project MUSE.
- Winter, Aaron (2019). Harmer, Emily; Lumsden, Karen (eds.). Online Othering. Springer International Publishing. ISBN 9783030126339.