Winrod

Winrod was indicted for sedition during World War Two, went to trial but was never convicted.

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Frequently proclaiming his desire to "save America for white gentile Americans," he considered the Klan an eminently "American institution" and counted among his supporters such native fascists as Gerald L.K. Smith, Father Charles Coughlin, Gerald P. Winrod, and William Dudley Pelley.

Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007

The dictator Windrip is modelled less on Adolph Hitler than on Louisiana demagogue Huey Long (though the name "Windrip" is also a scatalogical spoof on protofascist Gerald B. Winrod), while the demagogic priest, Bishop Prang, is clearly taken from Father Coughlin.

Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007

In his magazine Defender, notorious anti-Semite Gerald Winrod offered a genetic explanation for Roosevelt's supposed participation in the Jewish conspiracy: Roosevelt himself was secretly a Jew.

Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007

Kansas-based Reverend Gerald B. Winrod organized fundamentalist Protestants into the Defenders of the Christian Faith; his mouthpiece, Defender Magazine, had a circulation topping 100,000.

Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007

Winrod warned that this alleged Jewishness proves unmistakably, that the Roosevelt administration offers a biological as well as a political problem ....

Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007

Winrod believed that Hitler would save the world from Communism and that Franklin Roosevelt was a devil linked to the Jewish-Communist conspiracy.

Danny Miller: Kristallnacht: 70 Years Later 2008

Winrod was the leader of a group called the Defenders of the Christian Faith and in his sermon he condemned the "coterie of international Jewish bankers who ruled the Gentile world by the power of gold."

Danny Miller: Kristallnacht: 70 Years Later 2008

Winrod died in 1957 but his son is still going strong in his attempts to spread virulent anti-Semitism through his church.

Danny Miller: Kristallnacht: 70 Years Later 2008

Winrod, even before he tried to get into the Senate, was one of the most brazen of the Nazis 'Fifth Column operating in this country.

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