The Silver Legion of America, commonly known as the Silver Shirts, was an American Nazi organization founded by William Dudley Pelley on January 30, 1933. National Socialism redirects here. ... William Dudley Pelley wanted poster William Dudley Pelley (March 12, 1890-July 1, 1965) was an American Fascist and leader of the Silver Legion. ... January 30 is the 30th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ...

The Silver Legion’s emblem was a scarlet 'L', it stood for Loyalty to the American Republic, Liberation from materialism and, of course, the Silver Legion itself. Their uniforms consisted of a cap identical to those worn by German Stormtroopers, blue corduroy trousers, leggings, tie and silver shirt with a red "L" over the heart. For other meanings of stormtrooper see Stormtrooper (disambiguation). ...

The Silver Shirts had about 15,000 members, mostly middle-class, by 1934. The movement's strength dwindled to 5000 four years later. The attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 led to the immediate collapse of the Silver Legion. Satellite image of Pearl Harbor. ... For the movie, see 1941 (film). ...

References

• The Millenarian Right: William Dudley Pelley and the Silver Legion of America by John Werly (Ph.D. diss. Syracuse University, 1972)
• Ribuffo, Leo Pual, Protestants on the Right: William Dudley Pelley, Gerald B. Winrod and Gerald L.K. Smith, two volumes, Yale University, 1976 Liberation magazine, January 1936, New York City Library

Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated Ph. ... Syracuse University (SU) is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... “Yale” redirects here. ...

See also

• William Dudley Pelley
• In the 1972 George Roy Hill movie Slaughterhouse-Five, which is based on the Kurt Vonnegut Jr. novel, the character Howard W. Campbell Jr. who comes to the German POW camp and attempts to proselytize the American prisoners into joining the "anti-bolshevik" struggle of Germany is a clear reference to the Silver Shirts.
• A fictionalised depiction of the Silver Shirts forms a large part of the plot in the thriller The Night Letter by Paul Spike.

William Dudley Pelley wanted poster William Dudley Pelley (March 12, 1890-July 1, 1965) was an American Fascist and leader of the Silver Legion. ... George Roy Hill (December 20, 1922 – December 27, 2002) was an American film director. ... Kurt Vonnegut, Junior (born November 11, 1922) is an American novelist, satirist, and most recently, graphic artist. ... The thriller is a broad genre of literature, film, and television that includes numerous, often-overlapping sub-genres. ... The Night Letter is a 1978 book by Paul Spike, with a double-layered structure: an anti-Nazi spy thriller on the background of the early part of the Second World War, and an exposure of cynical and machiavellian manoeuvrings in the American corridors of power. ... Paul Spike Paul Robert Spike (born 3 August 1947) is an author, editor and journalist who grew up in New Yorks Greenwich Village but has lived in Europe, primarily London, most of his life. ...

External links

• Christ's Men in Silver Raiment: William Dudley Pelley and the Silver Legion of America
• The Holocaust Chronicle PROLOGUE: Roots of the Holocaust, page 89

The Silver Shirts are also a British political movement in Harry Turtledove's American Empire and Settling Accounts series of novels. They are likely an analog of the British Union of Fascists. William Dudley Pelley wanted poster William Dudley Pelley (March 12, 1890-July 1, 1965) was an American Fascist and leader of the Silver Legion. ... Harry Norman Turtledove (born June 14, 1949) is an American historian and prolific novelist who has written historical fiction, fantasy, and science fiction works. ... The American Empire series is a trilogy of alternate history novels by Harry Turtledove. ... The Settling Accounts tetralogy is an alternate history setting of World War II by Harry Turtledove in North America, presupposing that the Confederate States of America won the U.S. Civil War. ... The flag of the British Union of Fascists showing the Flash and Circle symbolic of action within unity The British Union of Fascists (BUF) was a political party of the 1930s in the United Kingdom. ...