William Dudley Pelley
William Dudley Pelley (born March 12, 1890 in Lynn , Massachusetts , † June 30, 1965 in Noblesville , Indiana ) was an American anti-Semite and founder of the anti-Semitic movement Silver Shirts .
As the son of a British Methodist , Pelley was shaped by his pride in his "pure" English origins. In 1917 he went to Hollywood to work as a writer. He has worked on films such as The Light in the Dark and The Shock . In the period after the First World War he worked as a journalist . In 1928 he wrote an article Seven Minutes in Eternity for American Magazine , which brought him national attention. In 1932 Pelley moved to Asheville to start a university there. The focus of the university was on Christian economics . He also ran a publishing company that published the weekly Liberation newspaper . In this he spread his anti-Semitic world views. When Hitler came to power in Germany , Pelley founded the Silver Shirts . In 1936 he founded the Christian Party , whose aim, among other things, was to prohibit Jews from buying land in the USA. In the same year he stood as a candidate for this party in the presidential election . He achieved 1598 votes nationwide and ended up at the bottom of the field of applicants. In 1942 he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for high treason. After eight years in prison, he was released in 1950.
Individual evidence
Web links
- Fascist Apocalypse: William Pelley and Millennial Extremism (talk by David Lobb, historian at Syracuse University ) (PDF; 29 kB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pelley, William Dudley |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Founder of the anti-Semitic movement Silver Shirts |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 12, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lynn , Massachusetts |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 30, 1965 |
| Place of death | Noblesville , Indiana |