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If you thought Nazism died with Hitler, think again. In The Beast Reawakens, journalist Martin A. Lee documents the revival of fascist ideals from the wake of the Second World War to recent violent incidents in Europe and America. Defeated in war, many Nazis built new and profitable lives for themselves, stirring political intrigue and serving as role models to a new generation of white supremacists like Americans Francis Parker Yockey, whose book Imperium became the bible of anti-Semitism, and Willis Carto, who continues to run several ostensibly mainstream policy groups that deny the Holocaust ever took place. Often forced underground yet certain of their cause, this second generation of extremists can be linked to such recent violence as the Oklahoma City bombings, the shocking lynching of James Byrd in Jasper, Texas, and the abortion clinic bombings by Eric Rudolf, who remains a fugitive. With extraordinary detail and insight, The Beast Reawakens examines the many strands of rightwing extremism worldwide to put the current fascist resurgence in contemporary perspective.
Contents
Preface Introduction PART ONE: A SURFEIT OF SPIES CHAPTER ONE:Shifting Alliances Scarface Endgames A Critical Hiatus Gehlen's Gambit The U.S. Army's ODESSA File CHAPTER TWO: The Seesaw Strategy Hitler's Bodyguard Restoration Exile in Madrid Playing the Eastern Card The Spook Who Never Returned Golden Handcuffs CHAPTER THREE: Neo-Nazi Diaspora Wotan at the Funny Farm The Man with Many Aliases European Liberation Front Rumblings from Prague The Flying Ace PART TWO: POLITICAL SOLDIERS CHAPTER FOUR: The Swastika and the Crescent Coup d'Etat in Cairo A Mecca for Fascists Double-Agent Intrigue The Wrath of the Red Hand Trials and Tribulations CHAPTER FIVE: Nostalgics and Revisionists Cult of the Inquisitor White Power Politics The China Option Flirting with the Left Twilight of the Idols CHAPTER SIX: A Gathering Storm Breaking a Taboo Armies of the Right New Right with an Old Twist Browns and Greens The Politics of Denial Before the Deluge PART THREE: POST-COLD WAR FASCISM CHAPTER SEVEN: Germany Reunited Catharsis Paramilitaries and Poison Gas Groomed to Be Führer Cadre Building The Deutsche Mob Capitulation CHAPTER EIGHT: Shadow Over the East Prussia Lives! Territorial Imperative The Balkan Furnace Courting Mother Russia Here Come the National Bolsheviks Dreaming of a New Rapallo CHAPTER NINE: From the Margins to the Mainstream Playing with Fire Aryan Machinations The Road to Oklahoma City Onward Christian Patriots Pity the Poor Immigrant Fifty Years After CONCLUSION Notes Bibliography Index
