Asheville fascist led Silver Shirts movement in 1930s
An Answer Man column deals with the question about a historic and strange figure in Asheville's history: a fascist who faced a sedition charge.
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An Answer Man column deals with the question about a historic and strange figure in Asheville's history: a fascist who faced a sedition charge.
'Gangsters vs. Nazis' book tells how a New York judge secretly directed mafia bosses Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Siegel to recruit an army of Jewish thugs to intimidate antisemites
William Pelley came to Asheville in 1932 to establish Gallahad College and espouse his basically anti-Semitic course in "Christian economics."
The author of a new book offers a closer look at the specific influence pseudoscientific ideas had on the emergence and consequences of Nazi ideology.
In the social crisis following World War I, esoteric and border-science ideas became a powerful tool of Nazi mobilisation, directed at demonising Jews and the Left.