White Nationalism
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The Atomwaffen Division (AWD) was a small American Nazi group established by former Iron March social network users. The group was cast in the spotlight for several years for ongoing high-profile criminal activity.
Atomwaffen members openly promised further violence and an upcoming race war. The organization was disbanded by James Nolan Mason on March 14, 2020, after the US State Department moved to have Atomwaffen designated as a foreign terrorist group.AtomwaffenAWDNSONational Socialist OrderJames MasonSiegeAmerican Futurist
Various membership patches belonging to James Nolan Mason.
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James Nolan Mason
Mason, most recently known as the mentor to the Atomwaffen Division. In his earlier years, he led the National Socialist Liberation Front and Universal Order.
Universal Order was a movement founded by James Mason and convicted killer Charles Manson. It was intended to be a self-sustaining ideological philosophy rather than a physical organization. Mason’s preference through Universal Order was not armed resistance but to merely wait for ”the system” to consume and destroy itself from within.
Established in 2015, Atomwaffen members promised further violence and an upcoming race war. Many within the movement found Mason’s book Siege, a collective of his writings as a must-read source of inspiration for the impending war.
On August 25th, the day of George Lincoln Rockwell’s birthday, AWD cell leaders, and Mason met in Las Vegas for a conference where they agreed to disband AWD. This took place shortly after the US State Department moved to have the Atomwaffen Division designated a foreign terrorist organization.
On March 9th, 2020 the anniversary of Rockwell’s assassination, and after a series of arrests, which included 5 murders, the Atomwaffen Division officially disbanded. Mason told me, “The boys are throwing their lives away. If they see no other option than to carry out something illegal, they should at least do it right. I’m not condoning violence in any way, that’s just common sense.”
“It’s not the people getting shot up in churches that are the enemy, it’s the system. I do believe in national socialism, but not Marxist socialism which is the Jew.”
On a more personal note, after knowing JM for several months, I spent three days with him and his 11-year old cat Sunshine last week. On the last night, we watched reruns of The Price Is Right and the Johnny Carson show. We also spent considerable time talking about his passion for pre-1930’s jazz, classic b&w comedies, and horror films. He confessed to being one of horror film legend Bela Lugosi’s biggest fans and shared his collections with me.
During our time together he received a registered phone call from one of the former AWD cell leaders who is currently serving a sentence in federal prison. Mason considers violence, especially towards civilians to be unproductive. “These boys aren’t doing anyone any good sitting in a jail cell.” He also said he “would never disavow them.”James Nolan MasonAtomwaffen DivisionAWDNaziNSLFswastikaSiegeNSOThe OrderNational Socialist OrderAmerican Futurist
The original artwork for Siege.
James Nolan Mason reading a passage from his book Siege. (video - click on image).
A tee-shirt bearing the image of James Nolan Mason owned by a former member of Atomwaffen.
As an unaffiliated white nationalist for over a decade, most of which took place during his teenage years, this former member of the Atomwaffen Division initially joined via an online forum in 2016. Not long after, he was invited to an AWD chapter where he began attending regular meetups on the East Coast.
As it was told to me, he became “tired of being around sociopaths playing commando.” When asked to elaborate he clarified he was referring to “people who believe that their group formed on Wire will school-shoot their way to victory and be able to destroy the system. And, they are usually mentally ill and attracted teens with death wishes.” I saw them as lead by unprofessionals and the group as having no future in a movement that at the time was getting more professional.
The Atomwaffen Division was a small American Nazi group established by former Iron March social network users. Mason, a former leader of the National Socialist Liberation Front and Universal Order was seen as a mentor to the AWD. Atomwaffen members openly promised further violence and an upcoming race war. The organization was disbanded by Mason in 2020 shortly after the U.S. State Department moved to have Atomwaffen designated as a foreign terrorist group.James MasonSiegeAtomwaffenAWDNSONational Socialist OrderAmerican Futurist
A section of James Mason's library. Siege is a 460-page compilation of newsletters written by American neo-Nazi James N. Mason in the early 1980s.
Mason, a former leader of the National Socialist Liberation Front and Universal Order was seen as a mentor to the Atomwaffen Division, an organization that he disbanded in 2020 shortly after the U.S. State Department moved to have AWD designated as a foreign terrorist group.
These collections of writings are arranged according to topic. It places an emphasis on acquiring power through armed resistance rather than political means. The book was first published in 1992 and was required reading for the accelerationist groups Atomwaffen and The Base.
7/18/2020. A long-time white nationalist who served as an advisor to NSC-131, a newly formed fascist and white nationalist group out of the Boston area. One of his catchphrases used when vouching for a fellow comrade is "he's a Solid Brother" as depicted in his upper arm tattoo.
7/17/2020. White nationalists from several states attend a meeting at the home of a fellow comrade. Burt Colucci (left) addresses the audience.
7/17/2020. A pickup truck drives past the home of a devout white nationalist.
Following an interview that misrepresented a town as a “hotbed of white supremacy in 2018, frustrated residents plastered the county with more than 150 signs reading, "Hate Has No Home Here. Love Wins!!!"
"Commander" George Lincoln Rockwell's 1959 passport.
Members of NSC-131 out of the Boston, MA area stepping on a Black Lives Matter flag. A few hours later the flag was doused with kerosene and set on fire.
The first official daily log book of the American Nazi Party. 1962.
11/09/2019. Patching-in two new members.
The individual on the left (skull mask) is Timothy Wilson. According to the FBI, Wilson was the “subject of a months-long domestic terrorism investigation, which revealed him to be a potentially violent extremist, motivated by racial, religious, and anti-government animus. Wilson was actively planning to commit an act of domestic terrorism – a bombing - and over the course of several months considered several targets.” Wilson was affiliated with the local Atomwaffen group and used the pseudonym "Werwolf" online.
Not long after this image was taken, Tim left the group. According to friends, in the months that followed Tim became isolated and more radical in his beliefs.
Wilson died in an FBI shootout in Belton, Missouri in March 2020.
Two members from the NSC-131 crew out of Boston.
Headless horseman prop at a Halloween get together. Texas.
A skinhead and his two children during a memorial concert held at a private location. The event drew various supporters of the white nationalist movement, including the National Socialist Movement, Aryan Nations, Hammerskins, Blood & Honour, Death’s Head Hooligans and the Sons of Aesir.
Satanic Ritual of Destruction intended to destroy the BLM movement.
*Although there are known to be some white nationalists that practice Satanism, the vast majority of them vehemently oppose Satanism in every form.
April 22, 2016. Breman, Georgia. Members of the National Socialist Movement wait for the rest of their comrades to arrive at the hotel.
Tempe, GA. Gabriel Diaz, a black New York cab driver who was suspended for wearing a Nazi armband arrives at a Nazi/Klan event.
“I am a National Socialist, what you guys call a Nazi. I am a believer of it,” “I don’t mean to offend anybody, I’m just expressing my first amendments, my freedom of expression. If other people have the right to wear what they want to wear, why can’t a National Socialist?” Diaz suggested Muslims be banned from wearing their religious garb, and that “a homosexual should apologize for being homosexual, open and gay” if he, Diaz, is barred from donning his Nazi armband. Diaz says he doesn’t hate Jews, but believes the American public has been lied to about Adolf Hitler.
Local bar frequented by Klan folk.
According to the owner - "the menus themselves make a statement." The covers are all different, and may say "We cater to hangins" or may depict black monkeys in a tree. "Everybody's welcome," he says. "You can call me a ‘cracker' and that's fine."
NSM (National Socialist Movement) members during a birthday celebration of their commander, Jeff Schoep. North Carolina.
A birthday celebration for Jeff Schoep (former commander of the National Socialist Movement).
The “New England Nationalist Club” an “Anti-Communist & Anti-Capitalist fraternal direct action network comprised of revolutionary nationalists in the New England area.
Since this image was taken, the NENC has disbanded due to “legal purposes as well as personal, internal conflict.” The reformulated group (NSC-131), still operates as a nationalist club and is “a fraternal group of White Nationalists and they welcome all, including members of other groups and organizations.”Nova AngliaNew England Nationalist ClubfascistNSC131New England Socialist Club
April 22, 2016. Temple, Georgia. Arthur Jones and his wife Patricia during the NSM National meeting & banquet. “Art” was a Republican candidate who sought election to the U.S. House to represent the 3rd Congressional District of Illinois in 2016 and in 2012. He is a well-known Holocaust denier and has been affiliated with Nazi organizations since the 70’s.
A member of a white nationalist organization getting a promotion.
April 23, 2016. Breman, Georgia. Members and supporters of the National Socialist Movement during breakfast at a local hotel.
April 23, 2016. Rome, Georgia. Members of several pro-white organizations, including the National Socialist Movement and the Ku Klux Klan leave a nearby parking facility in preparation for a public rally, which was held on the city of Rome’s police department’s lawn.
A Nazi faces the crowd during a fall political rally on the steps of the Pennsylvania state Capital building.
Trenton, NJ. A small group of armed antifa attack a dinner event hosted by a white nationalist organization.
Pastor Drew of the National Socialist Movement shortly after a wedding ceremony at the annual skinhead Oi Fest in Arizona.
Pastor Drew was the last ordained minister at the Aryan Nations 20-acre white supremacist compound at Hayden Lake, Idaho before it was bankrupted by the Southern Poverty Law Center in a 6.3 million dollar judgement in 2000.
Elohim City. Adair County, Oklahoma. Elohim City is a private community founded in November 1973 by Robert G. Millar (1925-2001), a former Mennonite and a United States resident alien from Canada. ‘Filled with the Holy Spirit,” according to one of his sons, Millar moved to Oklahoma City in the mid-1950’s, where he founded a church.
In 1973 Millar and approximately 18 family members established Elohim City or “City of God,” as a spiritual community to “honor God,” while waiting for Him to establish His kingdom on earth. This 400-acre religious enclave has it’s own liturgy, calendar (the year begins with the spring equinox) and it’s own clock (the day begins at noon). Worship services are an integral part of life at Elohim City. Services are held daily. On the Sabbath — which at Elohim City is on Tuesday — they last several hours.
Residents of Elohim City are adherents of Christian Identity, which teaches that white Anglo-Saxons, not Jews, are God’s chosen people and that America, not Israel, is the Promised Land. According to Identity, Jews are descendants of Satan, and nonwhites are pre-Adamic, a lower form of species than whites.
Probate getting "patched" into Aryan Strikeforce and a co-division of C18.
Aryan Strikeforce get together (video - click on image to play).
2008 presidential candidate and former American Nazi Party leader John Taylor Bowles takes on the roll of Santa Clause outside the Redneck Shop. Laurens, South Carolina.
A German Flecktarn field jacket and propaganda flyer belonging to a former member of the Atomwaffen Division.
This independent Nazi supporter was shot by a swat team after he fired upon them while approaching his property. He suffered serious wounds, and served a short sentence due to his medical condition .