Alexander Mills

Alexander Rud Mills (born July 15, 1885 in Forth (Tasmania) , Australia , † April 8, 1964 in Melbourne ) was an Australian lawyer , National Socialist and author (also called Tasman Forth ). He was a supporter of neo-pagan Odinism and one of the founders of the Australia First Movement , which collaborated with the Tripartite Pact member Japan during World War II .

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Mills graduated from Melbourne University and became a lawyer in 1917. He was a fellow student of Robert Menzies , one of the later Prime Ministers of the Australian Labor Party , although he was nine years older. He married Evelyn Louisa, with whom he had two children. He served as a medic in the AIF during the First World War in Turkey and Germany.

He made a religious and political trip through Europe from 1931 to 1934, during which he met the British National Socialist Oswald Mosley of the British Union of Fascists and Arnold Leese of the Imperial Fascist League . In 1933 Mills spoke to Adolf Hitler about his theses - which Hitler did not, however, interest - and he also met General Erich Ludendorff . Another correspondence with Joseph Goebbels is documented. When he returned to Australia in 1934, he founded The Odinic Rite of Australia in Melbourne , a church of Nordic-Germanic neo-paganism .

In 1936 he went to Sydney , where he published a magazine called National Socialist with a small print run of 500 copies that only appeared twice. The articles were anti-Semitic, and Mills compared communists with Jews in the following original quote: "The friends of the Soviet Russia, Jews and there dupes, fear Japan" (German: "The friends of the Soviet Union, Jews and their boobies, fear Japan") .

Mills was a leading member of the fascist Australia First Movement and as such was arrested on March 10, 1942 and interned in Loveday camp in South Australia until December 17, 1942 , when a court released him.

The Anglecyn Church of Odin was explicitly against other Christian religions. For Mills, these religions were Jewish propaganda for spreading their doctrine that indoctrinate, personalize, and spread a doctrine that addresses human weaknesses.

After his release from the internment camp in 1942, he worked as an author, wrote eight books and other articles on Odinism. The church cells he founded gradually dissolved.

Ideas of Odinism can be found today in part in the Australian New Age .

Works (selection)

• And Fear Shall Be In The Way. Watson & Co, London 1933.
• Hael, Odin! Village Belle Press, Melbourne 1934.
• The First Guide Book to the Anglecyn Church of Odin. Forward Press, Sydney 1936.
• Ritual Book of the Moots of the Anglecyn Body. 1937.
• The Odinist Religion: Overcoming Judeo Christianity. Ruskin Press, Melbourne 1939.
• Law for the Ordinary Man. AR Johnson, Melbourne 1947.
• The Call of Our Ancient Nordic Religion. Northern World Pub., Coventry, England 1957.
• The Call of Our Nordic Religion - Reflections on the Theological Content of the Sagas. Northern World Pub., Calcutta 1957.

literature

• Barbara Winter: The Australia-First Movement and the Publicist, 1936-1942 . Glass House Books, Carindale 2005, ISBN 1-876819-91-X Online on Google Books .
• Bruce Muirden: The puzzled patriots: The story of the Australia First Movement. Melbourne University Press, Carlton 1968, ISBN 052283907X .

Web links

• A Brief Biography of Alexander Rud Mills

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Barbara Winter: Australia First Movement. P. 40, see literature
2. ↑ Barbara Winter: Australia First Movement. P. 42, see literature
3. ↑ ^{a b} odinicriteofaustralia.wordpress.com : The Odinic Rite of Australia. The Pre-Christian Religion of Europe, accessed March 20, 2011
4. ↑ Mills: Overcoming Juedo Christianity. P. 18 ff., See literature