James H. Madole

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James Harting Madole (July 7, 1927 – May 6, 1979) was an American neo-Nazi activist and leader of the National Renaissance Party from shortly after the party's founding in 1949 to his death. Madole is best known for being one of the first figures to mix neo-Nazism with occultism and esotericism, and is regarded by scholars as a pivotal figure in the development of esoteric neo-Nazism. Madole was known as an eccentric figure and never achieved the notoriety of his contemporary George Lincoln Rockwell. Interested in science fiction from his youth, he developed a worldview based on science fiction. Through science fiction he discovered fascism; as a teenager, Madole developed a science fiction based right-wing party called the Animist Party. He dissolved the Animist Party in 1948 when he realized that many of its members were actually infiltrators. Aged 22, he was given control of Kurt Mertig's National Renaissance Party shortly after it was founded; behind the scenes, Frederick Charles...

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