2/18/2018. PA. USA. Dreysen, riding his ATV adjacent to a neighbor’s cornfield.
In 2013, a year after Dresysen’s parents gave birth to their second child diagnosed with autism, they started reading about National Socialism. The couple felt the diagnosis of both children was somehow related to man-made influences, such as hydraulic fracturing and mandatory immunizations for children attending public school. The ideology of National Socialism fell in line with their core beliefs and quickly became part of their daily lives.
Today, they remain outspoken members of the White Nationalist movement and have eight children ranging from 6-months to nine, four have been diagnosed with autism.
5/20/2017. PA. Dan provides security during a Klan gathering. Several organizations from neighboring states came together in the hopes of forming an alliance.
God’s Country, 2017. Daniel disciplines his oldest son for pushing a fellow classmate as they entered the school bus. He tells him that a lack of self-control can cause unnecessary stress for the family.
Their open support of white nationalism has created an ongoing tension between the parents and a member of the school board. It has led to numerous complaints to Child Protective Services and home inspections, which the family considers harassment.
God’s Country, 2017. A five-year-old wearing two buttons - one with an image of Adolph Hitler (left) and a smaller one of George Lincoln Rockwell (right), the founder of the American Nazi Party - for his preschool graduation photo.
3/4/2017. Elmira, NY. USA. Dan hands Sabrina their newborn son Odhyn for the first time.
11/2/2017. PA. USA. Dresysen (right) gives a Sieg Heil statue while his brother and sister look on.
10/31/2017. PA. USA. Dan reacts to his oldest daughter Alayrya getting ahead of the group while trick or treating on Halloween. With the exception of the newborn, all eight children were dressed as the “Thing” twins (1 though 8) from Dr. Seuss.
Local White Nationalists from two organizations come together for a silent protest in objection to the Black Lives Matters movement.
6/24/2017. PA. USA. One of Dan’s carvings, a Parteiadler (Emblem of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei), or in English, simply the Nazi Party.
God’s Country, 2016. Dan and Sabrina at a diner with several members of a Nazi organization following a public rally.
Welcome sign as you enter Potter County, Pennsylvania.
In the early 1990’s, Potter County was home to an Aryan Nations leader named August Kreis III who found it’s vast pinelands, coined “God’s Country”, and it’s majority white population to be the perfect setting for a base of operations.
In 1993, approximately 350 Nazi and racist skinheads attended Aryan Summerfest, a hard-core white supremacist "hate rock" festival that August Kreis III hosted at his semi-rural "Last Outpost," consisting of three trailers, a woodshop and a shooting range on 10.4 acres in Potter County, Pennsylvania.
Later, Kreis hosted the 2002 Aryan Nations World Congress, an agglomeration of skinheads, Klansmen, Nazis and white power bands. Kreis played a key role in spreading white supremacy in Potter County and advocated the mass murder of Jews, non-whites and race traitors until 2009 when he moved from Potter County, to Lexington, South Carolina.
10/8/16, Galeton, Pa. The president of a local skinhead organization plays with his newly acquired pit bull outside a home he shares with his live-in girlfriend in rural Potter County, PA.
One of the founding members of Aryan Strikeforce shows a glimpse of his pistol and brass knuckles during a state meeting.
The vice president of Aryan Strikeforce plays a round of darts in Dan's workshop during a unity gathering.
A carload of skinheads pull over for some impromptu roadside shooting. Here, the president of the organization loads .380-caliber ammunition into a clip for his wife.
Members of Aryan Strikeforce pose for a group photo during a unity gathering hosted in Dan's workshop.
God’s Country, 2016. Sabrina, along with members of several white nationalist organizations, including the Ku Klux Klan, march in formation after holding a fall political rally on the steps of the Pennsylvania state Capital building.
November 2017. Dan's handmade triple celebration birthday cake.
God’s Country, 2017. Two of Dan and Sabrina’s seven children playing on their Big Wheels in their father’s garage/workshop.
Sabrina at her 16-week ultrasound. After having her first OBGYN specialist turn her away due to her beliefs, Sabrina was forced to find another doctor in a neighboring town an hour away.
In a space designated as a playroom, Dan and Sabrina's eldest son stands before a large supply of diapers while his four-year old brother plays quietly in the corner.
A booking photo of Ronald “Dozer” Pulcher II, a leader of Aryan Strikeforce who was arrested on Oct 29th, 2016 in Potter County on weapon(s) and drug charges.
God’s Country, 2017. Sabrina playfully carries her youngest daughter into the house.
Note the White Pride sticker with a Parteiadler/Emblem of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP; known in English as the National Socialist German Workers' Party, or simply the Nazi Party) on the family van.
God’s Country, 2017. Two Labradoodles named "Spic" and "Jew," cautiously enter through a window adjacent to their outside pen. The family also has an Otterhound named "Adolph" and pit bull named "Eva."
God’s Country, 2017. Dan, a 42-year old wood carver, watches over his wife and their seven children during an Easter egg hunt.
In 2013, a year after having a second child diagnosed with autism, they started reading about National Socialism. The couple felt the diagnosis of both children was somehow related to man-made influences, such as hydraulic fracturing and childhood immunizations. The ideology of National Socialism fell in line with their core beliefs and quickly became part of their daily lives.
Ostarah's first steps and mommy blowing bubbles.
Hotel room closet the day before a rally.
God’s Country, 2016. Sabrina, along with other white nationalists wait for their convoy of vehicles to proceed to the Pennsylvania state Capital building for a fall political rally five days before the presidential election. The group's political platform includes preventing illegal immigration and outsourcing jobs to other countries.
God’s Country, 2017. Sabrina at her 16-week ultrasound. After her first OB-GYN specialist turned her away due to her beliefs, Sabrina was forced to find another an hour away.
10/8/16. In opposition to a silent protest hosted by Dan, several members of the community hold a counter protest across the street with signs that reference the importance of equality and evils of racism.
God’s Country, 2017. Dan and Sabrina discuss an issue they were having at the elementary school.
In 2013, a year after having a second child diagnosed with autism, they started reading about national socialism. The couple felt the diagnosis of both children was somehow related to man-made influences, such as hydraulic fracturing and childhood immunizations. The ideology of National Socialism fell in line with their core beliefs and quickly became part of their daily lives.
After school TV time with a snack.
5/19/2017. Alyrya goes to bat for her team during a community T-Ball game.
God’s Country, 2017. Sabrina, 13 weeks pregnant, goes food shopping for her family at the local market.
The last time she shopped here, her six-year-old daughter yelled “look momma, a nigger,” referring to a black employee, to whom Sabrina later apologized to. According to a 2014 census, blacks make up 0.08% of their county’s population.
Founding members of Aryan Strikeforce sit down for a meal following a unity gathering at Dan & Sabrina’s.
In April 2017, five key members of the organization were indicted with conspiracy to defraud the U.S., racketeering, money laundering, dealing with unregistered interstate commerce, transfer of machine gun parts and firearms by convicted felons, and two counts of conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance.
6/24/2017.
2/18/2017. PA. USA. Danzig (left), Alayrya and Dreysen (background left) watching the cartoon South Park in their parent’s bedroom.
7/19/2017. Wellsboro, PA. Sabrina is brought into the OR for a premature C-section.
Odhyn Hydrych-Hydlyr weighed in at 6lbs and 5oz. Shortly after his birth, Odyhyn became cyanotic and had to be transported to a NICU unit at a larger hospital where he was diagnosed with having underdeveloped lungs.
7/19/2017. Wellsboro, PA. Dan maintains a watchful eye as the doctor that delivered his son looks into reasons why the newborn isn't eating (and still has cyanosis).
Dan suspects negligence in some part due to his families beliefs.
1/4/2017. PA. USA. Dan drives by a fracking well pad currently under construction not far from his home. This particular region has 40 active wells with over 109 violations filed (1), which Dan believes contributed to four of his eight children being diagnosed with autism.
In 2013, a year after giving birth to their second child diagnosed with autism, Dan and his wife Sabrina started reading about National Socialism. The couple felt the diagnosis of both children was somehow related to man-made influences, such as hydraulic fracturing and mandatory immunizations for children attending public school. The ideology of National Socialism fell in line with their core beliefs and quickly became part of their daily lives.
Today, they remain outspoken members of the White Nationalist movement and have eight children ranging from six-months to nine, four have been diagnosed with autism.
(1)According to a report from StateImpact, a collaboration of several agencies that cover the commonwealth’s energy economy.