Weird Little Guys

In 1965, a car full of klansmen shot and killed Viola Liuzzo, a white woman from Detroit who volunteered to drive civil rights activists back to Selma after the march to Montgomery. The FBI immediately kicked into overdrive to drag her name through the mud.

Sources:

Stanton, Mary. From Selma to Sorrow: The Life and Death of Viola Liuzzo. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998

Mendelsohn, Jack. The martyrs : sixteen who gave their lives for racial justice. Harper & Row 1966

https://www.justice.gov/crt/case-document/micheal-schwerner-james-chaney-andrew-goodman
https://famous-trials.com/mississippi-burningtrial/1978-barnetteconfession
https://mississippiencyclopedia.org/entries/schwerner-michael/
http://repository.wustl.edu/concern/videos/7p88cm77s
https://voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-long-not-long-speech-text/
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/sunday/the-sunday-edition-september-10-2017-1.4280530/daughter-of-civil-rights-worker-murdered-in-selma-on-racism-white-supremacy-and-her-mother-s-legacy-1.4280754
https://archive.org/details/martyrssixteenwh00mend/page/176/mode/2up
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When the man responsible for bombing a federal building in Oklahoma City was arrested, he was carrying a page of his favorite book. The book had been sold at gun shows and in ads in nazi newsletters for years, but suddenly the rest of the country was asking... can a book kill?

Sources:

Berger, J.M. "The Turner Legacy: The Storied Origins and Enduring Impact of White Nationalism’s Deadly Bible", The International Centre for Counter-Terrorism - The Hague 7, no. 8 (2016).

Belew, Kathleen. Bring the War Home : The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America. Harvard University Press, 2018.

Sunshine, Spencer (2024). Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege (1st ed.). New York, NY: Routledge

Pierce, Kelvin. Sins of My Father, Growing Up with America's Most Dangerous White Supremacist. Independently Published, 2020

Martin Durham, White Rage: The Extreme Right and American Politics (new
york: routledge, 2007)

Gardell, Mattias (2003). Gods of the Blood: The Pagan Revival and White Separatism. Durham: Duke University Press.

Kaplan, Jeffrey (July 2018). "America's apocalyptic literature of the radical right". International Sociology. 33 (4): 503–522

Flynn, Kevin, and Gary Gerhardt. The Silent Brotherhood: Inside America's Racist Underground Free Press ; Collier Macmillan, 1989.

Michael, George(2003) 'The revolutionary model of Dr William L. Pierce', Terrorism and Political Violence, 15: 3

Michael, George(2010) 'Blueprints and Fantasies: A Review and Analysis of Extremist Fiction', Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 33: 2

Griffin, R. S. (2001). The Fame of a Dead Man’s Deeds. 1st Books Library.

Cullick, Jonathan S. “The Literary Offenses of a Neo-Nazi: Narrative Voice in ‘The Turner Diaries.’” Studies in Popular Culture, vol. 24, no. 3, 2002, pp. 87–99.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/guru-white-hate-william-pierce-timothy-mcveigh-831091/
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Parts 7 & 8 of the South Africa arc.
Blood River
Original Air Date: 4.17.25
In 2002, a terrorist group failed to assassinate Nelson Mandela. In 2012, a plot to assassinate Jacob Zuma was foiled. Both plots were attempts to fulfill a prophecy and renew a bloody covenant with God.
Sources:
Thompson, Leonard L. The Political Mythology of Apartheid. Yale University Press, 1986.
FA Mouton (1995) F A van Jaarsveld (1922–1995) — a flawed genius?, , 27:1,
5-11, DOI: 10.1080/00232089585310011
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00232089585310011
Stephney, Inez Mary. “Race, History and the Internet: The use of the Internet in White Supremacist Propaganda in the late 1990’s, with particular reference to South Africa”
https://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/server/api/core/bitstreams/b04bdabb-ecd9-4f99-a3ae-fff55b88f483/content
Schönteich, Martin, and Henri Boshoff. “Volk”, Faith and Fatherland: The Security Threat Posed by the White Right. Institute for Security Studies, 2003.
Ndlovu, Sifiso Mxolisi. “Johannes Nkosi and the Communist Party of South Africa: Images of ‘Blood River’ and King Dingane in the Late 1920s-1930.” History and Theory, vol. 39, no. 4, 2000, pp. 111–32. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2678052.
http://www.anc.org.za/content/formation-umkhonto-we-sizwe
https://www.sahistory.org.za/people/johannes-nkosi
https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/december-16-reflection-changing-south-african-heritage
https://scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0259-94222024000200001
https://www.iol.co.za/news/rightwing-coup-plot-case-postponed-1491552
https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/battle-blood-river-1838
https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/origins-battle-blood-river-1838
https://web.archive.org/web/20071220164018/http://www2.univ-reunion.fr/~ageof/text/74c21e88-617.html#_ftn13
https://web.archive.org/web/20081217042554/http://history.humsci.ukzn.ac.za/files/sempapers/Adutoit2005.pdf
https://www.litnet.co.za/adriaan-snyman-1938/
https://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/items/a64ddcfc-49eb-4680-b59d-b342d8bc358c
https://www.news24.com/news24/five-boeremag-members-found-guilty-of-conspiring-to-murder-madiba-20150430
https://mg.co.za/article/2004-08-03-boeremag-relied-on-rottweiler-and-kgb/
Snyman, Adriaan. Voice of a Prophet. Vaandel Publishers, 1999.
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Mission South Africa
Original Air Date: 5.1.25
At the end of this miniseries about white supremacist terrorism in the final years of apartheid in South Africa, this episode returns to the present day as white South Africans are lining up outside the embassy in Pretoria to claim refugee status under Trump's executive order.
Sources:
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-focuses-persecution-claims-white-south-africans-seek-resettlement-2025-04-24/
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/06/white-afrikaner-donald-trump-america-us-administration
https://www.dw.com/en/us-diplomat-ejected-from-new-zealand-after-mysterious-incident/a-38016563
https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_departments/Parliamentary_Library/Research/FlagPost/2022/May/diplomatic-expulsions
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/may/24/australia-expels-israeli-diplomat
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59023465
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/world/americas/06ecuador.html
https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/05/29/so-how-do-you-expel-an-ambassador-anyway/
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/addressing-egregious-actions-of-the-republic-of-south-africa/
https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/topic/social/
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/pool-reports-february-2-2025
https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-press-gaggle-after-air-force-one-arrival-february-2-2025/#15
https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/topic/calendar/
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/south-african-party-accuses-white-group-treason-over-trump-attack-2025-02-10/
https://www.enca.com/news-top-stories/ramaphosa-slams-afriforum-solidarity
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-02-13-apartheid-stratcom-agents-trump-edwin-feulner/
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/oct/24/an-indictment-of-south-africa-whites-only-town-orania-is-booming
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/south-africas-white-afrikaner-separatists-want-trumps-help-become-state-2025-04-03/
https://laist.com/news/food/milky-way-kosher-restaurant-reopens-steven-spielbergs-mom-la-legendary
https://iol.co.za/news/politics/2025-03-17-eff-condemns-us-ambassador-expulsion-vows-to-block-white-supremacist-appointment/
https://www.biznews.com/interviews/2025/02/27/us-ramaphosa-financial-sanction-anc-joel-pollak
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-03-30-new-us-envoy-might-be-even-more-conservative-than-me-joel-pollak/
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/23/africa/south-african-ambassador-ebrahim-rasool-intl/index.html
https://mistra.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/MISTRA-Statement-webinar-Implications-of-changes-in-US-administration-for-South-Africa-and-Africa.pdf
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-03-18-rasool-diplomacy-and-global-power/
https://www.sajr.co.za/rasools-expulsion-a-crisis-not-a-hiccup/
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trumps-pick-for-ambassador-to-south-africa-actively-opposed-fight-to-end-apartheid
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/07/14/Foundation-unveils-Contra-commercials/1746553233600/
https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2025-02-19-ernst-roets-leaves-solidarity-movement-to-live-out-his-calling/
https://za.usembassy.gov/u-s-refugee-admissions-program-faqs/
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/us/politics/trump-south-africa-white-afrikaners-refugee.html
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Parts 5 & 6 of the South Africa arc.
The Whites' Last Stand
Original Air Date: 4.3.25
In the final days of apartheid, white extremists were getting desperate. That desperation contributed to one of the strangest political crises of the late 20th century.
Sources:
https://dcist.com/story/12/09/24/aryan-nations/
https://archive.idavox.com/index.php/2012/09/24/the-aryan-nations-show-of-farce-in-dc/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naRGivc7Ong
Guelke, Adrian. “Political Violence and the South African Transition.” Irish Studies in International Affairs, vol. 4, 1993, pp. 59–68. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/30001810.
https://antifainfoblatt.de/aib24/suedafrika-machtkampf-krieg-auf-kleiner-flamme
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/white-supremacist-arthur-kemp-steps-leader-neo-nazi-group-national-alliance/
https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/26/world/white-separatists-storm-south-african-negotiations.html?fbclid=IwAR2oDpPTYh0q173RdYwv5cox59uhpyHBrQdGfC65L22gY7pZAcwbArH8BkI
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/how-the-volk-myth-died-it-took-just-a-few-minutes-to-change-the-course-of-south-african-history-john-carlin-reports-from-mafikeng-1428703.html
https://www.justice.gov.za/trc/amntrans/1998/98092123_mma_mmabath3.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20140503185912/http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/newsticker/rechte-in-suedafrika-rekrutieren-internationale-soeldner---politikermord-lautet-ein-auftrag-die-killer-kamen-von-der-reeperbahn,10917074,8820188.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/13/world/a-homeland-s-agony.html?sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2
https://mg.co.za/article/1994-06-17-foreign-hooligans-embarrass-awb/
https://www.justice.gov.za/trc/media%5C1997%5C9708/s970821c.htm
https://www.justice.gov.za/trc/amntrans%5Cpta/2derby1.htm
Death of Apartheid: The Whites’ Last Stand. (1995, May 28). Brian Lapping Associates.
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The Jamboree in Jamba
This is the very strange story of the time Dolph Lundgren starred in a piece of apartheid propaganda.
Sources:
Bellant, Russ. Old Nazis, the New Right, and the Republican Party. South End Press, 1991.
Abramoff, Jack. Capitol Punishment: The Hard Truth about Washington Corruption from America’s Most Notorious Lobbyist. WND Books, 2011.
Easton, Nina. Gang of Five: Leaders at the Center of the Conservative Crusade. Simon & Schuster, 2000.
Ivon, David. “Touting for South Africa: International Freedom Foundation.” Covert Action Information Bulletin, 1989.
Blumenthal, Sidney (December 1983). "Let Lehrman Be Reagan". The New Republic.
Cachalia, Firoz and Mervyn Shear. WITS: A University in the Apartheid Era. Wits University Press, 2022.
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-02-13-apartheid-stratcom-agents-trump-edwin-feulner/
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-11-13-atrocious-crimes-apartheid-hitmans-brutal-confessions-serve-as-a-warning-for-south-africans/
https://mg.co.za/article/2008-05-29-the-spy-who-lost-it/
https://mg.co.za/article/2001-03-23-the-height-of-hypocrisy/
https://disa.ukzn.ac.za/sites/default/files/pdf_files/SNSep83.pdf
https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files4/SNNov83.pdf
https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files4/SNOct80.pdf
https://staging.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files3/pam19870826.026.009.583.pdf
https://antifainfoblatt.de/aib24/suedafrika-machtkampf-krieg-auf-kleiner-flamme
https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/48870988/volume-36-number-07-university-of-the-witwatersrand
https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/38832258/volume-36-number-13
https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/06/293602.html?c=on
https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files2/pam19811200.026.009.580.pdf
https://harpers.org/archive/2008/08/the-wrecking-crew/
https://www.nytimes.com/1985/06/06/world/4-rebel-units-sign-anti-soviet-pact.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1985/06/10/world/reporter-s-notebook-angola-s-children-of-war.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20060128022735/http://www.alternet.org/story/13134/
https://www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZAWCHC/1996/3.pdf
https://www.georgeherald.com/News/Article/Local-News/robert-hall-pioneer-in-medical-equipment-dies-20170711
https://mg.co.za/article/1996-04-04-noseweek-case-takes-a-new-turn/
https://www.nonproliferation.org/wp-content/uploads/npr/73gould.pdf
https://www.salon.com/2005/08/17/abramoff_2/
https://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/09/movies/south-africa-helps-us-film-makers-in-namibia-with-troops-and-trucks.html
https://ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu/case-study/abramoff-lobbying-congress
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Parts 3 & 4 of the South Africa arc.
The White Wolf
Original Air Date: 3.2.25
In 1989, four Afrikaner nationalists and one German mercenary killed a security guard at a United Nations outpost in Namibia. After escaping from custody, they fled home to South Africa. A possibly non-existent group called The White Wolves took credit for the wave of bombings that followed.
Sources:
Du Preez, M. (2010). Pale native: Memories of a Renegade reporter. Zebra Press.
Rotberg, Robert (1988). The Founder: Cecil Rhodes and the Enigma of Power. Oxford University Press.
Falkof, Nicky. The End of Whiteness: Satanism and Family Murder in Late Apartheid South Africa. Johannesburg: Jacana Media, 2016.
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-09-09-bruce-and-leonard-a-sad-african-immigrant-tale-of-injustice/
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/01/19/world/outjo-journal-un-namibia-team-makes-some-unlikely-friends.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20010429091808/http://www.un.org/documents/ga/res/spec/aress14-1.htm
https://www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZASCA/1999/72.html
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1989/08/11/Gunmen-attacked-a-UN-peace-keeping-force-adminstrative-headquarters-and/6550618811200/
https://ctc.westpoint.edu/the-nexus-between-far-right-extremists-in-the-united-states-and-ukraine/
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1043&context=ncitereportsresearch
https://web.archive.org/web/20181118212149/https://www.iol.co.za/pretoria-news/the-day-wit-wolf-turned-pretoria-red-with-blood-18125595
https://www.jordanharbinger.com/bradley-steyn-undercover-with-mandelas-spies-part-one/
https://theafricancriminologyjournal.wordpress.com/2022/02/04/south-africa-the-strijdom-square-massacre/
https://www.iol.co.za/news/world/us-wit-wolf-slaughter-1873433
https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/what-became-of-the-big-wit-wolf-424408
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White Guns for Hire
Original Air Date: 3.27.25
In 1994, a second group of mercenaries arrived at the airport in Johannesburg... but no one was there to pick them up. Their host had been arrested days earlier, after the last group of mercenaries she'd hosted got into a deadly shootout with the South African police. But how did all these Germans end up in South Africa in the first place?
Sources:
Simonelli, F. J. (1999). American Führer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. University of Illinois Press.
Krott, R. (2008). Save the last bullet for yourself: A soldier of fortune in the Balkans and Somalia. Casemate.
Eisenberg, D. (1967). The Reemergence of Fascism. Barnes.
https://balkans.aljazeera.net/news/balkan/2017/11/29/slobodan-praljak-umro-u-bolnici
Bartholomäus Grill: German right-wing radicals shoot in South Africa: License plate D. In: Die Zeit . No. 13 , 25 March 1994
Antifaschistisches Autorenkollektiv: Drahtzieher im braunen Netz : Ein aktueller Überblick über den Neonazi-Untergrund in Deutschland und Österreich. Konkret Literatur Verlag, 1996,
https://etd.library.emory.edu/concern/etds/jm214q33q?locale=it
https://js.emory.edu/news/news-stories-container/Using%20South%20African%20Archives%20to%20Study%20PostWorld%20War%20Two%20Antisemitism%20and%20White%20Supremacist%20Networks.html
https://scholar.ufs.ac.za/server/api/core/bitstreams/c7f1b03d-343d-4abf-bcb3-e508f43dbc90/content
https://antifainfoblatt.de/aib99/dressed-kill
Searchlight Magazine, issues July, August, September 1996
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