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Pelley disbanded the organization soon after the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. [ 19 ] On January 20, 1942, Pelley was sentenced to serve two to three years in prison by Superior Court Judge F. Don Phillips, in Asheville, North Carolina, for violating terms of probation of a 1935 conviction for violating North Carolina security laws.
The Christian Party was an American fascist political party which was founded by William Dudley Pelley in 1935. [1] He chose 16 August 1935 as the Christian Party's founding date, because it was a so-called "pyramid date". [2] The party can be considered the political wing of Pelley's paramilitary organization, the Silver Legion of America.
William Dudley Pelley (March 12, 1890 – June 30, 1965) was an American fascist activist, journalist, writer and occultist, noted for his support of German dictator Adolf Hitler during the Great Depression and World War II.
The German American Bund was the most prominent and well-organized fascist organization in the United States. It was founded in 1936, following the model of Hitler 's Nazi Germany . It appeared shortly after the founding of several smaller groups, including the Friends of New Germany and the Silver Legion of America , founded in 1933 by William ...
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[6] He was drawn to the ideals of William Dudley Pelley, specifically Pelley's stated goal of 'setting free' Native Americans from reservations and replacing them with Jews. [7] He was also active within the American Indian Federation , and garnered support for the organization through Fascist organizations such as the German American Bund and ...
He became a member of William Dudley Pelley's fascist Silver Legion of America, which was patterned after Hitler's brown shirts. [24] (Pelley was later convicted for violating the Espionage Act in 1942 and sentenced to 15 years in prison, but he was acquitted in 1944 for violating the Alien Registration Act.)
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