Chuck Crate

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Chuck Crate , di Charles Brandel alias Charles Crate , (* 1916 ; † 1992 ) was a Canadian fascist and leader of the Canadian Union of Fascists .

He was born in northern Ontario in 1916 and spent his youth there. In 1927 he moved to a working-class neighborhood in the metropolis of Toronto . Poverty and unemployment as a result of the Great Depression radicalized him and he sympathized with the fascist movement in Europe. He made contact with emigrated members of the British Union of Fascists , who put him in touch with the Canadian Fascist Party , headquartered in Winnipeg . After a short period of membership, he became the leader of the party in 1933. The Canadian newspaper Globe from Toronto referred to him in 1936 as " Canada's No. one fascist ".

In the following decade, the party, now renamed the Canadian Union of Fascists , campaigned for the votes of both English- and French-speaking Canadians. However, the Union failed to emerge from the shadow of the other fascist Canadian parties. Both the spin-off of the British Fascists, and the dominant fascist party, the Parti national social chrétien of Adrien Arcand , remained dominant.

After Canada on September 10, 1939 the German Reich the declared war , has the Union was disbanded and its members 'encouraged' to stand up for peace negotiations with the Axis powers to use. Crate escaped charges of treason and joined the Royal Canadian Navy . At the time of his stationing in Great Britain , he tried to establish contacts with British fascists, but this failed due to the work of the British domestic secret service. During his service in England he met his future wife, with her he returned to Canada after the war and raised two daughters.

Crate continued his right-wing extremist politics in the years that followed, until his death. A final focus of his political activity was the work on behalf of Eastern European immigrants, who were involved in war crimes of the National Socialist dictatorship in Europe.

literature

  • Martin Robin: Shades of right: nativist and fascist politics in Canada, 1920-1940 , Toronto [u. a.]: University of Toronto Press, 1992 [" Crate, Charles B. (alias Charles Brandel), 192, 193, 197 "] ISBN 0-8020-5962-7 (hardback) ISBN 0-8020-6892-8 ( Paperback)
  • Angelo Principe: The darkest side of the fascist years: the Italian-Canadian press, 1920-1942 , Toronto [u. a.]: Guernica, 1999 [" Brandel, Charles (alias Charles Crate) 95, 96, 160, 246 "] (Essay Series; 40) ISBN 1-55071-083-4

swell

  1. ↑ Globe of October 22, 1936, cit. after M. Robin: Shades of right , p. 192
personal data
SURNAME Crate, Chuck
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brandel, Charles; Crate, Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian fascist and leader of the Canadian Union of Fascists
DATE OF BIRTH 1916
DATE OF DEATH 1992