Francis Parker Yockey

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Francis Parker Yockey (September 18, 1917 – June 17, 1960) was an American fascist writer best known for his neo-Spenglerian book Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics, published in 1948 under the pen name Ulick Varange, which called for a neo-Nazi European empire. Yockey supported far-right causes around the world and remains an influence on white nationalist and neo-fascist movements. Yockey was an antisemite, a reverent proponent of German Nazism, and an early Holocaust denier. In the 1930s, he contacted and worked with the Nazi-aligned Silver Shirts and the German-American Bund. He served in the U.S. Army in 1942–43, and went AWOL to help Nazi spies. After legal appointments in Detroit during 1944 and 1945, he worked for 11 months on the War Crimes Tribunal in Germany before he either resigned or was fired for secretly and subversively siding with the Nazis. In London, he worked for the British fascist Oswald Mosley's Union Movement, and, after falling out with Mosley, founded...

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