Russell Veh

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Russell Veh
Born1950 (age 74–75)
Toledo, Ohio
Other namesRussell R. Patton
Occupation Hate speech propagandist
Years active1970–1990s
Organization National Socialist League
Movement Neo-Nazism
LGBT rights

Russell Raymond Veh (born 1950) is an American political activist and propagandist, who was the head of the San Diego-based neo-Nazi organization World Service. From the early 1970s through the 1990s, Veh edited and distributed neo-Nazi and racist propaganda books, periodicals, and films around the world by mail. By 1990, he was "one of the largest purveyors of white supremacist information in the country." [1] Veh also served as leader of the gay neo-Nazi National Socialist League from 1974 until its dissolution in 1984.

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Biography

Veh was a native of Toledo, Ohio, and founded the Ohio Nationalist Party in 1970, renamed the American White Nationalist Party in 1971. The organization was short-lived, however, and he moved to California in 1974. [2] [3]

In California, Veh led the National Socialist League (NSL), a gay neo-Nazi organization. He managed to get the party advertised in the historically gay Bay Area Reporter newspaper and the gay leather magazine Drummer . Veh and his party distributed membership applications declaring NSL's "determination to seek sexual, social, and political freedom" for Aryans. [4] The literature printed by Veh's organization often featured provocative images of scantily clad SS soldiers with swastikas covering their genitals to emphasize the "sexual trip" described by the recruiting pitch. [5] [6]

The National Socialist League disappeared in 1984. Veh continued to operate the World Service into the 1990s, converting the NSL periodical NS Mobilizer and its subscription list into a non-sexuality-based propaganda outlet, Race & Nation (renamed Jew Watch after 1990). [7]

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References

  1. ↑ Himmelspach, Darlene. "Book, Video Salesman Has Hot Product – Racism." San Diego Union. April 23, 1990, sec. City News.
  2. ↑ Newton, Michael (2014) [2007]. The Ku Klux Klan: History, Organization, Language, Influence and Activities of America's Most Notorious Secret Society. Jefferson: McFarland & Company. p. 164. ISBN   978-0-7864-9559-7.
  3. ↑ Sewell, Rhonda B. "Former Toledoan Finds Niche Peddling Hate." The Blade (Toledo). April 1, 1990.
  4. ↑ Newton, Michael (2007). The Ku Klux Klan: History, Organization, Language, Influence and Activities of America's Most Notorious Secret Society. McFarland & Company. p. 182. ISBN   978-0-7864-2787-1.
  5. ↑ Kaplan, Jeffrey (2000). Encyclopedia of White Power: A Sourcebook of the Radical Right. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 316. ISBN   978-0-7425-0340-3.
  6. ↑ Morgan, Kyle (2013). "Finding Aid to the National Socialist League Collection". Online Archive of California. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
  7. ↑ University of Michigan Library, Joseph A. Labadie Collection, Section 1, HS 2330.N21 N13
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