Northern League (neo-Nazi)
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The Northern League was a neo-Nazi organization most active in Britain in the latter half of the 20th century.
Roger Pearson
formed the Northern League in collaboration with Peter Huxley-Blythe, who was active in a variety of neo-Nazi groups with connections in Germany
and North America
(Tauber, 1967, Vol. II, n. 142, 207).
The stated purpose was to save the "Nordic race" from "annihilation of our kind" and to "fight for survival against forces which would mongrelize our race and civilization" (Pearson, 1959, 2-3). Northern League merged newsletters with Britons Publishing Company, an anti-Semitic publisher and major distributor of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Leading members of the Northern League included the Nazi racial eugenicist Hans F. K. Günther, who continued his work in the postwar period under a pseudonym. Other active members included Mankind Quarterly
founder Robert Gayre
and editors Robert E. Kuttner
and Donald A. Swan
; ex-Waffen SS officer and postwar neo-Nazi leader Arthur Ehrhardt
, and a number of postwar British fascists, though even among fascists, the Northern League was considered extremist (Billig, 1979). Among its co-founders and activists was Alastair Harper, United Kingdom Independence Party
(UKIP) parliamentary candidate in Dunfermline West in 2001.
Northern League literature was written in the style of scientific racism
(e.g., the work of Pearson collaborator Raymond B. Cattell), and their Statement of Aims reflect 19th century conceptions of Rasse and Volk. Andrew S. Winston of University of Guelph writes in an analysis of this group:
Roger Pearson
Roger Pearson
Roger Pearson is a British anthropologist, conservationist, eugenics advocate, founder of the Neo Nazi organization Northern League, and publisher of several journals.-Life and work:...
formed the Northern League in collaboration with Peter Huxley-Blythe, who was active in a variety of neo-Nazi groups with connections in Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
and North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
(Tauber, 1967, Vol. II, n. 142, 207).
The stated purpose was to save the "Nordic race" from "annihilation of our kind" and to "fight for survival against forces which would mongrelize our race and civilization" (Pearson, 1959, 2-3). Northern League merged newsletters with Britons Publishing Company, an anti-Semitic publisher and major distributor of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Leading members of the Northern League included the Nazi racial eugenicist Hans F. K. Günther, who continued his work in the postwar period under a pseudonym. Other active members included Mankind Quarterly
Mankind Quarterly
The Mankind Quarterly is a peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to physical and cultural anthropology and is currently published by the Council for Social and Economic Studies in Washington, D.C. It contains articles on human evolution, intelligence, ethnography, linguistics, mythology,...
founder Robert Gayre
Robert Gayre
George Robert Gayre of Gayre and Nigg was a Scottish anthropologist who founded Mankind Quarterly. An expert on heraldry, he also founded The Armorial, and produced many books on this subject....
and editors Robert E. Kuttner
Robert E. Kuttner
Robert E. Kuttner was an American biologist.He was an initial director of the International Association for the Advancement of Ethnology and Eugenics and was contributor to Charles Lee Smith's Truth Seeker...
and Donald A. Swan
Donald A. Swan
Donald A. Swan was an American anthropologist.Swan was a founder of the International Association for the Advancement of Ethnology and Eugenics and was involved in the Northern League. He was an assistant professor at The University of Southern Mississippi and studied economics at Columbia.In...
; ex-Waffen SS officer and postwar neo-Nazi leader Arthur Ehrhardt
Arthur Ehrhardt
Arthur Ehrhardt was a German Waffen-SS officer and author on warfare who became a leading figure in the post-war neo-Nazi movement.-Early years:...
, and a number of postwar British fascists, though even among fascists, the Northern League was considered extremist (Billig, 1979). Among its co-founders and activists was Alastair Harper, United Kingdom Independence Party
United Kingdom Independence Party
The United Kingdom Independence Party is a eurosceptic and right-wing populist political party in the United Kingdom. Whilst its primary goal is the UK's withdrawal from the European Union, the party has expanded beyond its single-issue image to develop a more comprehensive party platform.UKIP...
(UKIP) parliamentary candidate in Dunfermline West in 2001.
Northern League literature was written in the style of scientific racism
Scientific racism
Scientific racism is the use of scientific techniques and hypotheses to sanction the belief in racial superiority or racism.This is not the same as using scientific findings and the scientific method to investigate differences among the humans and argue that there are races...
(e.g., the work of Pearson collaborator Raymond B. Cattell), and their Statement of Aims reflect 19th century conceptions of Rasse and Volk. Andrew S. Winston of University of Guelph writes in an analysis of this group:
According to the "Aims," Northern Europeans are the "purest survival of the great Indo-European family of nations, sometimes described as the Caucasian race and at other times as the Aryan race." Almost all the "classic civilisations of the past were the product of these Indo-European peoples." Intermarriage with conquered peoples was said to produce the decay of these civilizations, particularly through interbreeding with slaves. "The rising tide of Color" threatens to overwhelm European society, and would result in the "biological annihilation of the sub-species," according to the Northern League .