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In Mengele’s footsteps The eugenicists come to NEWS

Reports round-up By Jack Mills Media coverage offers boost for alt-right academic Peter Jordan

ontroversial Canadian social justice warrior being a term of oppressive left restricting the rights of academic Jordan Peterson has abuse the alt-right uses to describe individuals is common in Peterson’s C shot to fame in Britain after people with progressive politics. work and has seen him pick up a large an interview with Channel 4 News’s Peterson has either appeared on following among the alt-right. Cathy Newman, followed by a gushing Rebel or been one of the topics of a In June 2017 Peterson was a profile by Tim Lott in the Observer Rebel video on at least 26 occasions headline speaker at The Rebel Live, newspaper. since 2016. These videos have picked an event organised by the channel in The interview with Newman, up 2.3m views on YouTube. The Toronto and attended by 800 fans and which was more challenging than vast majority of the videos are about supporters. the Observer piece, led to Channel 4 supposed “free speech battles” on Stormer having to call in security specialists university campuses. after Peterson’s alt-right fans began to Another early Peterson appearance Other speakers included McInnes, send Newman threats. was on Gavin McInnes’ show – British alt-right YouTuber Caolan Lott’s profile briefly mentioned another host who has now quit the Robertson and Faith Goldy, who Peterson having been labelled as Rebel channel. McInnes is the founder was kicked off Rebel after the “alt-right”, but quickly went on to of alt-right street fighting gang the Charlottesville protests for appearing explain that he was just railing against Jordan Peterson Proud Boys. The title of the video was on a neo-Nazi podcast linked to the the “left-wing establishment”. Lott a key figure in “Bloody neo-Marxists have invaded Daily Stormer website. completely omitted the huge amount Canada’s alt-right the campuses”. The theme of an Peterson’s loyalty to the channel of funding and support Peterson has has been repaid, with Rebel posting received from the Canadian alt-right several videos promoting his new YouTube channel Rebel Media, which book 12 Rules for Life. employs a number of prominent far The book’s release is the reason right figures in Britain. Peterson visited Britain. One video was a lengthy subscriber-only Denied interview conducted over Skype by In April last year, Peterson was Rebel founder Ezra Levant at the denied a federal research grant for end of 2017, discussing Peterson’s the first time in his career, which he “extraordinary year – and his exciting claimed was as a result of his high- plans for the future”. profile stand against legislation that Neither Lott’s profile nor Channel 4 added “gender identity” and “gender News mentioned Peterson’s extensive expression” to the Canadian human connections with the far right rights and criminal codes. YouTube channel, although Newman In response Rebel Media picked did at least confront Peterson over up the tab after launching a his reactionary views and links to the crowdfunding drive for Peterson, alt-right. which raised 195,230 Canadian Nearly all the coverage Peterson dollars (around £112,000). Peterson received in the British media since the has been involved with Rebel since interview with Newman has also failed 2016, when he first came under to mention any of these links. fire for his reactionary positions on When such figures visit Britain, the Canadian academic life. media outlets that cover them need One of Peterson’s early appearances to ensure they don’t omit such vital on Rebel, in October 2016, was an background information. interview with alt-right video blogger At best it gives people like Peterson Lauren Southern, who has since left a veil of respectability that they don’t the channel. deserve, while at worst it can help to The interview saw Peterson explain normalise the hatred these alt-right

Photo: Adam Jacobs “where SJWs come from” – SJW or media figures are pushing.

6 | Searchlight Spring 2018 special report

Eugenics special report Sonia Gable introduces our eight-page special by tracing the connections between German Nazis and today’s eugenicists

The eugenicists come to London

cademic conferences normally provide an open forum to share child drugged to prevent them waking up would not harm the child research and debate ideas. Not so the London Conference on because they would not know anything about it. A Intelligence, the existence of which was revealed in January. Another speaker in 2015 and 2016 was , emeritus The conference, on “empirical studies of intelligence, personality and professor of psychology at the University of Ulster. Lynn has written behaviour”, is secretive and invitation-only. extensively about eugenics and racial differences in intelligence Around the time this story broke came the resignation of Toby and is assistant editor of Mankind Quarterly, a journal that over Young from the board of the Office for Students, the higher its 57-year history has published many articles by eugenicists and education regulatory body. The appointment of Young, an advocate academic racists. of the Conservative government’s Free Schools, had been widely criticised after it was revealed that he had made offensive tweets Links about women and written articles denigrating working class Mankind Quarterly was founded by Robert Gayre, who had students and disabled people. extensive links with a variety of Nazis, and its second editor was Young also wrote about so-called “progressive eugenics”. Before Roger Pearson, founder of the shadowy Northern League – as his resignation from the OfS, Young apologised for past offence. Michael Billig explains, see In Mengele’s Footsteps, on page 19. But his interest in eugenics is not at all in the past. Young We also reproduce here three articles from past issues of attended last year’s London Conference on Intelligence, although Searchlight – on academic racism, Robert Gayre’s background, he did not speak. He is also a follower on Twitter of Emil and the Northern League’s meeting in Brighton in 1971, which was Kirkegaard, who has presented papers at the conference, one of broken up by Searchlight working with the anti-Nazi 62 Group. which was on “differential immigrant group performance”. On Finally we have an article from the US on the Heritage his own website, Kirkegaard has advocated “a frank discussion Foundation, which claims to have the ear of US president Donald of paedophilia-related issues” and claimed that having sex with a Trump – but once gave Roger Pearson the job of editing its journal.

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Michael Billig exposes the quarterly academic-looking journal whose editorial board included the man who mentored notorious Auschwitz doctor Josef Mengele

t first glance Mankind Quarterly looks like influence won through economic preponderance, brings any other . It seems just Michael Billig with it the very greatest danger for the life of the European like a standard journal, produced for a small is a professor of peoples and the North American peoples alike.” readership of specialist academics. But social sciences at Günther’s work was much admired by leading Nazi over 30 years ago, Searchlight published a Loughborough politicians, such as Alfred Rosenberg, head of Hitler’s Apamphlet, Psychology, Racism and Fascism, exposing how University from foreign political office and later Reich minister for the Mankind Quarterly emerged from the murky underworld 1985 to 2017. He Occupied Eastern Regions. In February 1941, Rosenberg of the far right and sought to make racism, and even Nazi wrote Searchlight’s was formally honoured with the Goethe Medal. He told race-, respectable. Given how racist ideas are still pamphlet, Günther: “Your work has been of the utmost importance being distributed, it’s worth remembering the pamphlet. Psychology, for the safeguarding and development of the National Today, Mankind Quarterly tries to hide its disreputable Racism and Socialist Weltanschauung,” as reported in the Nazi background. On its website, the journal declares that it Fascism newspaper Völkischer Beobachter, on 16 February 1941. “was founded as a quarterly journal of ” to study “the interactions between biological and cultural Racial homogenity diversity”. It goes on to say that it “was first published in Gayre was a great admirer of Günther and he used his Edinburgh, Scotland in 1961”. And then it was published work extensively for his own book, Teuton and Slav on from 1979 to 2014 “by the Council for Social and Economic the Polish Frontier, where he explicitly cited “Professor Studies (chaired by Roger Pearson) in Washington DC”. Hans FK Günther’s authoritative work on German racial There sounds nothing untoward or suspicious, unless science”. Gayre took page after page of photographs from you know who Roger Pearson is. But note an omission: the Günther’s Rassenkunde Europas to illustrate what he website avoids saying who set up the journal in Edinburgh called ideal “racial types”. in 1961 and who edited it until 1979. The journal has good Gayre’s book was essentially a recommendation for reason for reticence, as anyone familiar with Psychology, re-drawing Germany’s national boundaries in order to Racism and Fascism would know. Its editor and founder “improve the racial homogeneity” of Germany – in this was Robert Gayre, a man well connected with far right way, according to Gayre, “Germany would become and fascist circles. considerably more Nordic”. With that sort of record, it was no surprise that after Germany the war, Gayre had to abandon any hope of obtaining a Gayre was born in 1907 and before the Second World respectable university post in Britain. He briefly held a War he became interested in anthropological and position in an Indian university. Gayre never succeeded biological issues. He was much drawn to the sort of in being accepted as a respectable anthropologist but he “race-science” that was being developed in Germany craved a proper academic reputation. He sued the Sunday by Nazi “experts” on race. Gayre travelled to Times when the paper questioned his anthropological Germany on a number of occasions to make contact expertise but Gayre lost his case. with Nazi race theorists and antisemites such as He never changed his racist views and, until his death in Hans Günther. 1996, he operated in the murky world of far right cultural In his book The Racial Elements of European groups. Also part of this world was Gayre’s old hero Günther, History, Günther praised the worth of Nordic who as part of the postwar process of denazification was racial purity and warned of the perils of Jewish stripped of his academic posts. Günther continued writing for contamination: “The influence of the Jewish spirit, and a very specialist, racist audience. He died in 1967.

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Günther was one of the founder members of the Northern League, which was established in 1958 by a British anthropologist, Roger Pearson. Its aim was to foster “the interests, friendship and solidarity of all Teutonic nations”. It was intended to be a rallying ground for racist and Nazi intellectuals in the inhospitable postwar climate. It also provided links between various European fascist groups, including some of the most extreme, unrepentant pro-Nazi organisations. Gayre had links with the Northern League, although it is unclear whether or not he was formally a member. The Northern League’s magazine, The Northlander, described Gayre in August 1968 as “one of the oldest good friends of the Northern League”. In 1972, The Northlander sent its “best wishes to Prof. Gayre” whom it described as “our good connection and friend”. When Gayre set up Mankind Quarterly, he filled its editorial board with his own “good connections and friends”. Many had a background in racist politics. For example, Gayre appointed the South African, JDJ Hofmeyr as an honorary editorial advisor. Even within the context of the racist politics of apartheid South African, Hofmeyr was extreme. He wrote for the deeply antisemitic South African Observer and in his contributions he claimed that the apartheid government of South Africa was far too soft. Holocaust denial Gayre recruited Robert Kuttner, an American biochemist, as his assistant editor of Mankind Quarterly. Kuttner was also an editor of American Mercury, an overtly racist and antisemitic publication. The first issue of American Mercury of which Kuttner was an editor contained a piece entitled,“That elusive six million”. This was a typical piece Verschuer’s postgraduate student, Josef Mengele, served of Holocaust denial. Robert Gayre, as camp physician at Auschwitz, conducting notorious Its author declared: “The Nazis spared the overwhelming possibly practising research programmes on prisoners. percentage of .” Kuttner was not the only Mankind his academic look This research included Mengele deliberately infecting Quarterly editor who also served on the board of American young twins with typhus. Verschuer supervised some of Mercury. Another was Henry Garrett, a notorious this Auschwitz research and Mengele sent blood samples campaigner against integration in the US Deep South. and body parts from Auschwitz to his supervisor to be Gayre also recruited professor Corrado Gini, an Italian analysed in his Berlin laboratory. After the war Verschuer sociologist, to his editorial board. Gini had been a fascist was lucky to escape prosecution for his supervisory role in sympathiser in Mussolini’s Italy. He was one of the this research. speakers at the Convegno per la Cultura Fascista, which It is no surprise that Mankind Quarterly keeps quiet Mussolini described as a “memorable event in the history these days about its founder, Robert Gayre, and about of Italian fascism”. some of the members of the editorial board that Gayre AJ Gregor, in his book The Ideology of Fascism, appointed. But there has been a curious but worrying suggested that Gini provided Italian fascism with its reversal of fortune. Mankind Quarterly might now avoid philosophy of race. Gregor knew what he was talking mentioning Gayre on its website but it does not appear about, having been a regular contributor to the European, ashamed to say that Pearson was its second editor. a magazine published by the British fascist . When Searchlight first published its exposé of Gregor too had served as an editor of Mankind Quarterly. Mankind Quarterly back in 1979, Pearson was infamous Perhaps the most revealing member of Mankind for having founded the Northern League. Since then, Quarterly’s editorial board was Otmar von Verschuer. he has attempted to recreate himself within far right During the Nazi regime in Germany Verschuer was the conservative groups in the US, including the well funded director of the Institute for Genetic and Racial Heritage Foundation (see page 25). Along with Mankind Hygiene until 1942 when he became the director of Quarterly, the publication that he edited for a good the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human number of years, Pearson remains a deeply problematic Heredity and Eugenics in Berlin. figure with secrets to hide. l

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of the Northern League”. Gayre also sent a letter to the Northern From Searchlight, March 1986 League meeting held in Brighton in 1970. He regretted that he The ancient University of Glasgow has decided to honour a was unable to attend, but offered advice about presenting racial man with a long history of involvement in racist activities. theories. Amongst those in attendance were well known academic The university has agreed to name a professorship after the figures such as and Martin Webster. notorious Lt Colonel Robert Gayre and is currently inviting For a number of years Gayre devoted much energy to publishing applicants for “the newly endowed Gayre Chair of Scottish an academic-looking magazine called Mankind Quarterly. This Literature”. magazine specifically aimed to present the racial case. It attracted A university spokeswoman told Searchlight that Robert Gayre has contributions from academic racists such as Dr FJ Los and K been giving donations to the university for a number of years. Now Magnussen, who were also members of the Northern League. there are enough funds, which combined with a contribution from Gayre did not waste the opportunity to praise the disgraced the university itself, to fund a professorship. The spokeswoman Günther. In 1969 he wrote a glowing review of a book by Günther, said that the university was “entirely happy” to accept the money published by the antisemitic publishing house Britons Publishing from Gayre, because of his long interest in Scottish literature. Company. According to Gayre: “No one could be better fitted to However she would not comment upon Gayre’s equally long discuss the ideas and religious concepts of the Indo-Europeans interest in racial matters. More fastidious members of Glasgow than the late Professor Günther.” University, as well as prospective applicants, may wish to know An indication of Gayre’s sense of scholarship can be gleaned more about the man whose name is being honoured in this way. from a remark Gayre made in Mankind Quarterly, July 1975: Gayre’s interest in racist theories stretches back to pre-war days. “Anything from the pen of Mr HB Isherwood must command In 1939 he visited Hitler’s favourite race theorist, Hans Günther, scholarly respect.” The late Mr Isherwood, also a member of the in Berlin. Günther was a dedicated antisemite, whose entry into Northern League and Racial Preservation Society, and an admirer academic life was aided by Nazi Party bosses who admired his of the National Front, wrote a whole series of grubby racist and uncompromising theories of Aryan purity. Günther received the antisemitic pamphlets, which were circulated in Nazi circles. It takes Goethe Medal from Alfred Rosenberg, head of Hitler’s foreign a special perspective on academic work to claim that this sort of political office. The influence of the Nazi theorist Günther upon material must command scholarly respect. Gayre can be seen in the latter’s book Teuton and Slav on the Polish There again, Gayre’s perspective has been an unusual one. Frontier. Not only did Gayre reproduce page after page of Günther’s When he established Mankind Quarterly, he recruited a number photographs of various “racial types”, but he explicitly praised of academic names to serve as “honorary editors”. Among these “Professor Hans FK Günther’s authoritative work of German racial personages was Professor Dr Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer of science”. After the war, Günther was not considered a fit person to the University of Münster. Before the war Verschuer had been hold a post in a German University. the supervisor of none other than the infamous Dr Mengele, and Gayre’s interest in academic racism has led him into some in fact had supervised some of Mengele’s notorious death camp strange company. He contributed an article to the Candour League “projects”. Unlike Mengele and Günther, Verschuer was lucky to of Rhodesia’s journal in 1967. The Candour League was founded escape the denazification programme after the war. by AK Chesterton, the former Mosleyite and first chairman of Gayre’s interest in racial affairs has continued up until recent times. the National Front. Gayre’s links with Chesterton surfaced a year In 1984 it was announced that he was one of the sponsors of WISE, later when five members of the Racial Preservation Society were the organisation which aimed to provide a bridge between hardline prosecuted under the Race Relations Act. All the defendants were circles and the far right of the Conservative Party. Joy Page, who members of the newly formed National Front. Gayre spoke as an had been a fellow “expert” in the race relations trial, was a leading “expert” witness for the defence and suggested that it had been light in WISE. The BBC programme Panorama, which blew away the scientifically proven that blacks were “feckless”. His fellow “experts” respectable pretensions of this organisation in January 1984, revealed were equally interesting: Dr John Mitchell of the Greater Britain a WISE meeting filled with National Front members such as Mike Salt, Movement, National Front, etc, and Joy Page of the Immigration Kenneth McKilliam and Lady Jane Birdwood. Antisemitic material, Control Association and WISE [Welsh, Irish, Scots, English]. denying the reality of the Holocaust, was openly on sale. In addition to testifying for the defence Gayre donated £25 to the Serious questions must now be asked of Glasgow University. defence fund. Chesterton publicly thanked Gayre for his efforts and We know that British universities are short of cash, but is the Gayre helped Chesterton prepare a booklet about the trial. reputation of scholarship likely to be enhanced by naming a One of the defendants was Alan Hancock, who has a long professorship after Gayre? In the circles in which Gayre moves, track record in Nazi activities. One of the shadowy organisations perhaps racist and antisemitic nonsense “must command scholarly to which Hancock has belonged is the Northern League. This respect”, but surely it is a threat to genuine scholarship to honour organisation brings together Nazi activists and theorists from these values within a proper university. across Europe. Hans Günther had been a member. Its magazine n Following adverse publicity, the University of Glasgow reversed its Northlander described Gayre as one of the “oldest good friends decision to name a professorship after Gayre and returned his funds.

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Britain’s eugenicists draw intellectually on the key academic figures of Nazi Germany. There were personal links too, as this article from the Searchlight archives reveals

Society was Archiv für Rassen und was a ministerialdirektor in the race First published in Searchlight May 1984 Gesellschaftsbiologie, which attracted department of the ministry of the the support of many high-ranking interior and was on the staff of the he two major components academics, especially biologists and Reichsführer SS. Hitler was godfather of Nazi philosophy physical anthropologists. Many of to Gütt’s son. were: 1) a belief in a these academics became supporters The eugenicists were joined in Jewish conspiracy which of the Nazi movement, believing that creating the intellectual climate for sought world power, Hitler was the only German politician the Holocaust by the Nordicists. If the Tand 2) a belief that race was all- likely to put eugenic ideas into eugenicists specialised in formulating important in human affairs. Although practice, by wiping out the biologically pseudo-scientific theories about the the conspiracy theory was largely inferior strains of humanity. dangers of weakening the biology of confined to dedicated NSDAP [Nazi One of the editors of Archiv für the race, the Nordicists spent their Party] members, the belief in race was Rassen was professor Falk-Alfred time concocting elaborate theories much more widely spread, especially Ruttke, who was a lawyer. It was about various races. The career in academic and intellectual circles. Ruttke who drafted the infamous of one of the most prominent of In essentials, a belief in race is Nuremberg Laws, which enshrined these theorists, Hans FK Günther, based upon the assumption that racist philosophy by forbidding illustrates just how compromised the different social groups (ie blacks, intermarriage between Jews and academic racists were with the Nazis. Jews, Germans, etc) have different Aryans. Another editor, Ernst Günther’s works, such as underlying biological qualities, and Rüden, professor of psychiatry at the Rassenkunde des Deutschen Volkes, that such biological factors cause University of Munich, collaborated gained a wide readership in Germany. the groups to have fundamentally with Ruttke on a number of works In this work, as in his other widely different temperaments and abilities. praising the eugenic implications of read books such as The Racial This belief, which sought to explain the Nuremberg Laws. In return Rüden Elements of European History, history and politics in terms of was awarded special medals by Hitler Günther outlined his theories about biology, was popular amongst on his 65th and 70th birthdays. The the worth of Nordic racial purity and academics in Europe and the United editorial board of Archiv für Rassen the perils of Jewish contamination: States in the first part of this century; also contained Dr Arthur Gütt, who “The influence of the Jewish spirit, the version of this belief that stressed and influence won through economic the particular qualities of the so-called preponderance, brings with it the Aryan race was especially popular in very greatest danger for the life of Germany. the European peoples and the North One school of academics to American peoples alike.” support these racist notions were As well as having a wide popular the eugenicists: the German audience, Günther rose high in Eugenics Society, founded in 1905 academic circles. He was elected to by professor Alfred Ploetz, was a full professorship at the University devoted to research and propaganda of Jena in 1930, and later moved to for the notion that the salvation of the University of Berlin. His works Germany lay in breeding a stronger were praised by the rector of Berlin race. The eugenic idea was that Alfred Rosenberg University, Eugen Fischer, an eminent only the “racially healthy” would be was head of and “respectable” race scientist with a allowed to procreate. Ploetz himself Hitler’s foreign worldwide reputation, who nevertheless was involved with a number of political office expressed support for Hitler in the groups like Deutschbund which were and later Reich earliest days of the Nazi regime. devoted to pro-Aryan and antisemitic minister for the Günther was the deputy editor of enterprises. Occupied Eastern an academic journal published in

Photos, left and centre: Bundesarchiv Bild The journal of the German Eugenics Regions Stuttgart between 1935, two years

22 | Searchlight Spring 2018 formally honoured Günther, and Goebbels. Owing to the war presenting him with the Goethe situation, the congress was cancelled Medal. Rosenberg told Günther: at the last moment and Günther was “Your work has been of the utmost unable to deliver his paper, “The importance for the safeguarding and invasion of the Jews into the cultural development of the National Socialist life of the nations”. Weltanschauung,” as reported in After the war Günther was stripped of the Nazi newspaper Völkischer his university posts, in common with a Beobachter, 16 February 1941. number of the most notorious academic Günther, together with Eugen racists. Removed from academic life, Fischer, was a guest of honour at the he continued writing and expounding inaugural conference arranged for his racist views until his death in 1967. Rosenberg’s creation, the Frankfurt If his ideas were no longer fashionable Hans FK Günther, Institute for Research into the in respectable academic circles, a new the theoretician Jewish Question, in March 1941. The forum needed to be found. favoured by the proceedings of the conference were In 1957 the Northern League Nazis uniformly antisemitic. Günther’s was established by a British colleague at the University of Berlin, anthropologist, Roger Pearson. Walter Gross, set the tone in his This organisation was devoted to address entitled “The racial-political preserving the cultural aspects premises of solving the Jewish of fascism, just as groups like the question”. His “solution” was in National Front were preserving keeping with the mood of the Führer: its political aspects. Above all, “We look upon Jewry as quite a realistic the Northern League was to be phenomenon which was exceptionally the intellectual wing of post-war clever in matters of earthly life but fascism, where Nordicist and extreme which likewise is subject to historical eugenicists could find a congenial death. And as far as the historical home. One of the earliest members phenomenon of the Jew in Europe is was Hans Günther. As was the case concerned, we believe that this hour of before the war, Nordicism was to death has come irrevocably.” be closely linked to political action, Rosenberg invited Günther to the and the Northern League, which was after Hitler came to power, and 1944. International Anti-Jewish Congress in never intended to be a mere debating Zeitschrift für Rassenkunde, as its 1944, which was due to be attended by society, was to have its more sinister title suggests, specialised in scientific Nazi top brass such as von Ribbentrop sides. l studies of race. Many distinguished German physical anthropologists contributed to the journal and so did a number of foreign academics. Most contributions to Zeitschrift für Rassenkunde were of a technical nature, looking at racial differences using scientific procedures. At the same time Zeitschrift für Rassenkunde regularly reviewed books of an explicitly pro-Nazi stance. Günther himself also used to contribute to Nazi magazines (for example Neues Volk, published by the Nazi Party’s “radical politics department” and edited by Walter Gross, who like Günther was a professor at Berlin University and a fanatical antisemite). His work was much admired by leading Nazi Roger Pearson politicians like Alfred Rosenberg, founder of the head of Hitler’s foreign political Northern League office and later reichminister for the and one of the Occupied Eastern Regions. editors of In February 1941 Rosenberg Mankind Quarterly

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Northern League routed

After several photos were taken of three ex-SS men From Searchlight, November 1971 and their minders, one called the photographer over and ordered him to stop or face the consequences. He was he Daily Express headline read “Jan’s men told, “You are not in Nazi Germany now, sunshine.” When blitzed”. The seeds of this story had been planted he called the photographer a “Jewish subhuman”, the T a year earlier when the notorious Hancock family Searchlight man spat in his face, called him a Nazi swine, from Sussex invited a small but very influential Nazi turned his back on him and said, “Have a try at that, political and cultural group, the Northern League, to hold you’re good at stabbing people in the back.” As he rose to its annual gathering in Brighton. Searchlight got inside hit the photographer, several mainly ex-service 62 Group this event as did a mole being run by Harry Bidney, the members weighed in and he and the SS men all ended up 62 Group Intelligence officer. in hospital. The audience included nearly all the key players on the British far right, ranging from Monday Club officials to Fled Peter Ling, a former armed robber, later to be exposed Jordan had fled the hotel earlier after threatening aJewish as a paedophile, who was Colin Jordan’s right-hand Chronicle photographer, Molly Brindl Bowen. He had left man for two decades. Martin Webster, the National his bodyguard behind and, on the way out, the Searchlight Front activities organiser, was there. He favoured fascist man’s son laid this tough thug out stone cold. infiltration and subversion across British political life, As the Group retired from the scene they let off while the Monday Club preferred the Maoist slogan, smoke bombs to add to the confusion. In a stroke of “power comes out of the barrel of a gun”. genius Bidney walked upstairs into the conference room, We ran the story in Private Eye. The League had been relieved Kruls of a briefcase full of important documents set up in the late 1950s by Roger Pearson and a small and strolled away. group of former SS men and women, eugenicists with Several days later the police arrested a number of 62 a few political activists thrown in for good measure. Group officers and their leader Cyril Paskin. More than Today Pearson is a millionaire living in the USA, who a year later they came to court on the serious charges funds much of the work of racist academics. He was also of affray and assault and received suspended prison a chum of Enoch Powell. By the 1970s the leader of the sentences. League was a former wartime Dutch traitor, Jan Kruls, A week after the successful attack on Hancock’s SS guests, who dabbled in gun running as a sideline. Ms Bowen was seriously assaulted as she went to feed When they announced privately their intention her children’s pet rabbits in her garden late at night. She to return in 1971, we started to prepare. An ad hoc suffered serious facial injuries and was kicked unconscious. antifascist committee called for the meeting to be This is how the Nazi cowards fight their battles. stopped, but nobody was listening. So the 62 Group and As the Express reporter wrote the day after the battle, a few hangers-on headed south. The Searchlight team the Northern League would not dare hold a meeting in placed a man with a camera and his 15 year old son in the Netherlands, where it was based at the time. After the restaurant where the Nazis were having lunch and 62 28 November 1971 they never dared show their faces in Group members sat at other tables. Britain either.

Jewish reporter beaten up in Brighton

n December 1971 Molly our compliments to the Jewish Bowen had earlier received a Brandl Bowen, Brighton Chronicle.” threatening telephone call from a I correspondent of the The attack was connected with woman with a German accent. A Jewish Chronicle newspaper, Bowen’s coverage of the Northern similar call was made to another was viciously attacked and left League’s annual meeting in person that day asking about unconscious. Brighton, where Searchlight and 62 the reporter’s whereabouts and The journalist did not see who Group anti-fascist activists pointed movements. attacked her but remembered out that some of those present were It appears that the Northern hearing a well-spoken man say, former SS officers. Three of the League did not like having its “This is from our German friends Germans then present were attacked activities exposed – and didn’t mind – that is for your Jewish thugs and and taken to hospital. getting physical.

24 | Searchlight Spring 2018 supremacy and . Carto would later build the Institute for Historical Review into a bastion for Holocaust denial. He went to several academic posts and, while a dean at Montana Tech, received a $60,000 grant from the Pioneer Fund. That fund was founded in 1937 to propagate people “descended predominantly from white persons who settled in the original thirteen states prior to the adoption of the Constitution of the United States and/or from related stocks, or to classes of children, the majority of whom are deemed to be so descended”. It also wanted the dissemination of information, into the “problem of A matter of heritage

British eugenicists have links with the US-based Heritage Foundation, whose policies appear to have influence with Donald Trump.Leonard Zeskind explains the links

S president Donald Paris Climate Accord, repealing heredity and eugenics” and “problems Trump has said Mexican net neutrality, reshaping national of race betterment”. Wickliffe Draper immigrants are “rapists”, monuments, increasing military founded the fund after a 1935 visit to Haitians “have AIDS” and spending and welfare reforms. Hitler’s Germany. Critics have called Nigerians live in “huts”. The Heritage Foundation now it “a white supremacist foundation UAs for immigrants from Arab countries has an action arm, Heritage Action, that specialises in funding ‘science’ – he wanted them barred completely. created in 2010 in response to dedicated to demonstrating white Most recently, Trump drew back from grassroots pressure from the Tea intellectual and moral superiority”. an immigration deal that would include Party movement. And it has the In 1975, Pearson founded the Council people from Haiti and parts of Africa. feel now of an explicitly racist on American Affairs. He then went to Why should he accept people from organisation, more like it was at its the Heritage Foundation, and while he “shithole countries”, he asked. founding than when it gained prestige was there chaired the 11th Conference Trump’s racist anti-immigrant during the 1980s. off the World Anti-Communist remarks were once attributed to the Written out of the Heritage League. Finally, he was forced off influence of chief strategist, Steve Foundation’s official history is Roger both the Policy Review and WACL by Bannon. But Bannon has recently been Pearson, who edited its journal, Policy a 1978 Washington Post article that thrown out the window, because of Review, from 1977. Pearson was a revealed his continued beliefs in white remarks he was quoted as making in a white supremacist and antisemite who supremacy and antisemitism. book about the Trump White House. found his friends in the remains of Between 1981 and 1996, as Now, no one can claim Bannon was Hitler’s Nazi Party. He was a Brit who, Searchlight has reported, Pearson the cause of Trump’s racism. Into the during his long career as a “scientific received $869,500 from the Pioneer breach comes the Heritage Foundation. racist”, mixed far right activism with Fund for his Institute for the Study of On 23 January, it claimed that a academic posts, as detailed in the Man. Anti-immigrant organisations year after taking office, Trump had features on pages 19 and 22. also received money from this fund. “adopted nearly two-thirds of the policy He then moved to the US and joined Today, it is headed by Mankind recommendations from the Heritage Willis Carto for the magazine Western Quarterly assistant editor Richard Foundation’s Mandate for Leadership”. Destiny, where they developed a new Lynn, and the white supremacist beat

Photo: Gage Skidmore Key points included: leaving the and obscurantist language for white goes on. l

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