Detailed article on Atomwaffen Division, a violent neo-Nazi group whose
“largest chapters are based in Virginia, Texas and Washington” according
to leaked chat logs reported on by ProPublica: https://www.propublica.org/article/atomwaffen-division-inside-white-hate-groupJames Nolan Mason was an extremist even as a teenager. He joined the
American Nazi Party of George Lincoln Rockwell when he was just 14 and
became involved in the National Socialist Liberation Front in the 1970s.
He has served several prison terms, including one stint for attacking a
group of black men together with an accomplice. On another occasion, he
was charged with child abuse. During a search of his apartment, the
police found naked photos of a 15-year-old girl along with swastika
flags and photos of Adolf Hitler and his propaganda minister, Joseph
Goebbels.
In the 1980s, Mason decided to publish his fantasies of power and
violence in book form, which he called “Siege.” The tome – a collection
of his bizarre newsletters, on which he collaborated with the sect
leader Charles Manson – is full of Holocaust denials and ad hominem
attacks on both homosexuals and Jews. Above all, however, it calls for
the establishment of a network of decentralized terror cells and for
taking up arms against the “system.” Mason’s goal has long been that of
passing along his intolerant worldview to the next generations – and for
a long time, he found no success. But that all changed in 2015.
That year, the Nazi group Atomwaffen Division (“Atomwaffen” is German for
atomic weapon) was founded on the internet forum ironmarch.org, a
discussion platform for neo-Nazis from around the world. The extremists
discovered James Mason and were excited about his crazed, radical ideas.
“Siege” became a must-read and Mason their ideological doyen. But that
isn’t the only thing that makes them so dangerous, according to experts
on right-wing extremism. Members are heavily armed and prepared to make
use of their weapons. Indeed, they are getting ready for what they see
as the coming “race war” in so-called “hate camps.” Weapons training is
conducted by members of the U.S. military, who are also among the
group’s members. According to one former member of Atomwaffen Division,
newcomers must submit to waterboarding, in addition to other such
trials. But who is behind Atomwaffen Division?
The Hate Network: Atomwaffen Division – SPIEGEL ONLINE – International
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