Russell Veh | |
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| Born | 1950 (age 72–73) |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | Russell R. Patton |
| Occupation | Political activist |
| Years active | 1970-1990s |
| Known for | Gay Nazism |
Russell Raymond Veh (real name unknown) (born 1950) 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.
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]
The Ku Klux Klan, commonly shortened to the KKK or the Klan is the name of several historical and current American white supremacist, far-right terrorist organizations and hate groups. Their primary targets are African Americans, Hispanics, Jews, Latinos, Asian Americans, Native Americans, Italian Americans, Irish Americans, and Catholics, as well as immigrants, leftists, homosexuals, Muslims, atheists, and abortion providers.
The American Nazi Party (ANP) is an American far-right and neo-Nazi political party founded by George Lincoln Rockwell and headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. The organization was originally named the World Union of Free Enterprise National Socialists (WUFENS), a name to denote opposition to state ownership of property, the same year—it was renamed the American Nazi Party in order to attract 'maximum media attention'. Since the late 1960s, a number of small groups have used the name "American Nazi Party" with most being independent of each other and disbanding before the 21st century. The party is based largely upon the ideals and policies of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party in Germany during the Nazi era, and embraced its uniforms and iconography.
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The National Socialist Movement (NSM) is a far-right, Neo-Nazi, white supremacist organization based in the United States. It is a part of the Nationalist Front. The party claimed to be the "largest and most active" National Socialist organization in the United States. It is classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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The National Socialist League (NSL) was a neo-Nazi organization of gay men in the United States that existed from 1974 until 1984. It was originally founded by Jim Cherry, but was quickly taken over by Russell Veh, a neo-Nazi and transplant to Los Angeles, California, from Ohio. Veh financed the party using the profits from his printing business. He also financed the league with a film distribution unit that specialized in Nazi propaganda films, including Triumph of the Will. The National Socialist League had chapters in various parts of California, and implied in their mass mailing on July 4, 1978 that they had established an offshoot organization in Manhattan.
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