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Erin McIntyre
Investigative Journalist

Erin Siegal McIntyre is a independent investigative journalist. She is a Senior Fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University and the author of "Finding Fernanda."

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Monday, 07 May 2018

Documenting Hate: Neo-Nazi American Soldiers

170 reporters and editors from more than 40 newsrooms are involved in a project called “Documenting Hate”, which investigates hate crimes in the United States.

“The reporting has shown how hate has infiltrated many parts of public life, reaching cities big and small around the country: from a “mosaic of hate” in Boston as reported by The Boston Globe, to a white supremacy haven in Oregon reported by BuzzFeed, to a string of murders and hate incidents in Kansas City reported by The Huffington Post. Throughout the U.S., ethnic minorities have been targeted, as well as Jews and Muslims, ProPublica and Fusion reported.”

This month, ProPublica and Frontline examined the involvement of U.S. military members in white supremacist groups. They specifically looked at the white supremacist group Atomwaffen, to which an active duty Marine has professed membership, and which has reportedly conducted weapons and training exercises in at least four states. In addition to the Marine, they found that at least three active duty service members were also Atomwaffen supporters, as well as three more former service members.

Yet the scope of the problem appears to be much larger.

“There has long been a worrisome if not fully understood nexus between the military and the white supremacist movement. Over the past half-century, many of the movement’s key leaders have come from the ranks of the military, including George Lincoln Rockwell, commander of the American Nazi Party, Ku Klux Klan leader Louis Beam, and Aryan Nations founder Richard Butler … Last year, nearly 25 percent of active-duty service members surveyed by the Military Times said they’d encountered white nationalists within the ranks. The publication polled more than 1,000 service members.”

After reading the story, U.S. Congressman Keith Ellison sent a letter to the Department of Defense, demanding investigations into both the individual neo-Nazis profiled as well as the scope of the larger problem.

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