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Carto's career has been marked by controversy, and even among his colleagues on the Right, he is a polarizing figure. The Anti-Defamation League, as well as other critics, believe that Willis Carto, more than anybody else, was responsible for keeping organized anti-Semitism alive as a movement in the United States during the latter half of the 20th century and into the 21st century. These critics have noted that Carto has founded some organizations, such as Liberty Lobby, with the intent of appearing to be respectable conservative, populist, or anti-Communist organizations, while founding other organizations that were racialist or National Socialist in nature. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Eternal Jew: 1937 German poster. ... Liberty Lobby was a right-wing political advocacy organization which existed in the United States between 1955 and 2001. ... Conservative may refer to: Conservatism, political philosophy A member of a Conservative Party Conservative extension, premise of deductive logic Conservativity theorem, mathematical proof of conservative extension Conservative Judaism britney spears Category: ... Populism is a political ideology or rhetorical style that holds that the common person is oppressed by the elite in society, which exists only to serve its own interests, and therefore, the instruments of the State need to be grasped from this self-serving elite and instead used for the... Anti-communism is opposition to communist ideology, organization, or government, on either a theoretical or practical level. ... Hitlers Nazi Germany: the epitome of 20th-century racialism Racialism is a term used to describe racial policy, in what is generally perceived to be a negative sense, as promoting stratification and inequality between racial categories (in themselves, often disputed). ... The Nazi party used a right-facing swastika as their symbol and the red and black colors were said to represent Blut und Boden (blood and soil). ...

There are few movements on the American far right that have not been influenced in one way or another by Willis Carto in the last 50 years.

Influences on Carto

Willis Carto was known to be a devotee of the writings of Francis Parker Yockey, who was one of a handful of esoteric writers during the post-World War II era who researched Adolf Hitler. Yockey's best known book, "Imperium", was adopted by Carto as his own guiding ideology. Later, Carto would define his ideology as Jeffersonian and populist rather than National Socialist, particularly in Carto's 1982 book, "Profiles in Populism". That book presented sympathetic profiles of several United States political figures including Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson, as well as the controversial Catholic priest Fr. Charles Coughlin and Henry Ford. Critics charged that the book all but ignored Coughlin and Fords' virulent anti-Semitism, and that Carto remained a devotee of Yockey throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Francis Parker Yockey Francis Parker Yockey, (September 18, 1917 – June 16, 1960), was an American philosopher and polemicist best known for his neo-Spenglerian book Imperium, published under the pen name Ulick Varange in 1948. ... German soldiers at the Battle of Stalingrad World War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the worlds nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. ... Hitler redirects here. ... Categories: Literature stubs ... Thomas Jefferson(April 13, 1743 N.S. – July 4, 1826) was the third President of the United States (1801–1809), principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and an influential founder of the United States. ... Populism is a political ideology or rhetorical style that holds that the common person is oppressed by the elite in society, which exists only to serve its own interests, and therefore, the instruments of the State need to be grasped from this self-serving elite and instead used for the... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Thomas Jefferson(April 13, 1743 N.S. – July 4, 1826) was the third President of the United States (1801–1809), principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and an influential founder of the United States. ... Andrew Old Hickory Jackson (March 15, 1767– June 8, 1845) was the seventh President of the United States (1829-1837), first governor of Florida (1821), general of the Battle of New Orleans (1815), a co-founder of the Democratic Party, and the eponym of the era of Jacksonian democracy. ... This article is about the sacrament. ... Charles Coughlin Father Charles Edward Coughlin (October 25, 1891 – October 27, 1979) was a Canadian-born Roman Catholic priest from Royal Oak, Michigans Shrine of the Little Flower Catholic Church, and one of the first evangelists to preach to a widespread listening audience over the medium of radio during... Henry Ford (1919) Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was the founder of the Ford Motor Company and father of the modern assembly line used in mass production. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... See also 1990s, the band The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive, sometimes informally including popular culture from the very late 1980s and from 2000 and beyond. ...

Liberty Lobby

In 1955, Carto founded an organization called Liberty Lobby, which remained in operation under the control of Willis Carto until 2001, when the organization was forced into bankruptcy as a result of a lawsuit. Liberty Lobby was perhaps best known for publishing the newspaper, The Spotlight (also now defunct), between 1975 and 2001. Carto and "Spotlight" staff members and writers have since founded a new newspaper, called the American Free Press. 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Liberty Lobby was a right-wing political advocacy organization which existed in the United States between 1955 and 2001. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... A lawsuit is a civil action brought before a court in which the party commencing the action, the plaintiff, seeks a legal remedy. ... The Spotlight was a weekly newspaper in the United States, published from 1975 to 2001 by a now-defunct organization called Liberty Lobby. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... The American Free Press is a weekly newspaper in the United States. ...

Other activities in the 1950s and 1960s

Willis Carto has had a long history of attempting to take the remains of existing groups and publications, and turning them into vehicles for his ideology. In 1966, Carto acquired control of "The American Mercury", a magazine which was once a highly respected periodical associated with H.L. Mencken, but which was failing by the time Carto acquired it. It quickly went defunct. After the failed third party presidential campaign of George Wallace in 1968, Carto acquired control of what was left of the Youth for Wallace organization, and transformed it into an openly racialist youth organization called the National Youth Alliance. Carto eventually lost control of the National Youth Alliance to a rival, Dr. William Pierce, who transformed it into the National Alliance, which is today one of America's most notorious white racialist organizations. The American Mercury was a periodical first published in 1924 and edited by the noted drama critic George Jean Nathan and the journalistic gadfly Henry Louis Mencken. ... A collection of magazines A magazine is a periodical publication containing a variety of articles, generally financed by advertising and/or purchase by readers. ... H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956) was a twentieth century journalist and social critic, a cynic and a freethinker, known as the Sage of Baltimore and the American Nietzsche. He is often regarded as one of the most influential American writers of the early 20th... In any two-party system of politics, a third party is a party other than the two dominant ones. ... Governor George Wallace (in front of door) standing defiantly against desegregation while being confronted by Deputy U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach at the University of Alabama. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... The National Youth Alliance was a right-wing political organization founded on November 15, 1968 at the Army and Navy Club by Willis Carto, head of the right-wing Liberty Lobby. ... The National Youth Alliance was a right-wing political organization founded on November 15, 1968 at the Army and Navy Club by Willis Carto, head of the right-wing Liberty Lobby. ... William Luther Pierce (11 September 1933–23 July 2002) was an associate of the American Nazi Party (ANP), founder of the white supremacist National Alliance and one of the most prominent ideologues of the white nationalist movement. ... This article refers to the United States-based organization. ...

Carto and the Holocaust

Carto was also the founder of a publishing company called Noontide Press, which published a number of books on white racialism, including Yockey's Imperium and David Hoggan's The Myth of the Six Million, one of the first books to question the facts of the Holocaust. Noontide Press later became closely associated with the Institute for Historical Review (IHR), and fell out of Carto's hands at the same time as the IHR did. The IHR was founded by Willis Carto in 1979, with the intent of promoting the proposition that the Nazi Holocaust is historically accurate- a view known as Holocaust Questioning. After losing control of Noontide Press and the IHR in a hostile takeover by former associates, Carto started another publication, "The Barnes Review", which also questions the Holocaust. David Leslie Hoggan (March 23, 1923-August 7, 1988) was an American historian whose work was the subject of much controversy. ... The Institute for Historical Review (IHR), founded in 1978, is a leading Holocaust denial organization. ... Concentration camp inmates during the Holocaust The Holocaust was Nazi Germanys systematic genocide (ethnic cleansing) of various ethnic, religious, national, and secular groups during World War II. Early elements include the Kristallnacht pogrom and the T-4 Euthanasia Program established by Hitler that killed some 200,000 people. ... The Barnes Review is a magazine founded by Willis Carto, dedicated to a both historical revisionism and Holocaust denial. ...

Populist Party (1984-1996)

In 1984, Willis Carto was among those involved in starting a new political party called the Populist Party. As with many other Carto creations, this group quickly fell out of the hands of Carto in a hostile takeover by disgruntled former associates. Critics asserted that this Populist Party (not to be confused with the Populist Party of 1889) was little more than an electoral vehicle for current and former Ku Klux Klan and Christian Identity members. Olympic athlete Bob Richards (1984), former Klan Imperial Wizard David Duke (1988), and former Green Beret Bo Gritz (1992) were the Populist Party's only three presidential candidates. It folded before it could nominate a candidate for the 1996 elections. 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Members of the second Ku Klux Klan at a rally during the 1920s. ... Christian Identity is a label applied to a wide variety of loosely-affiliated groups and churches with a racialized theology. ... The Vaulting Vicar as he was known in his competitive days, the Rev. ... Imperial Wizard was the title used by the national leader of the white supremacist group the Ku Klux Klan—considered by many to be a hate group—in the 20th century. ... David Ernest Duke (born July 1, 1950) is a former Louisiana Republican State Representative and the founder of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan[1][2]. Duke is a self-styled white nationalist, though critics often label him a white supremacist. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Bo Gritz James Bo Gritz (born January 18, 1939 in Enid, Oklahoma) was a highly decorated Green Beret officer during the Vietnam War whose post-war activities—notably attempted POW rescues—have proven controversial. ...

Other activities

Carto acquired the Sun Radio Network in the early 1990s, and attempted to use talk radio as a vehicle for espousing his views. As with many other Carto ventures that network was eventually a financial failure. Talk radio is a radio format which features discussion of topical issues. ...

In 2004, Carto joined in signing the New Orleans Protocol on behalf of American Free Press. The New Orleans Protocol seeks to "mainstream our cause" by reducing violence and internecine warfare, and was written by David Duke. 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The New Orleans Protocol (NOP) was signed in New Orleans, Louisiana, on May 29, 2004. ...

External links

• Actual Swiss arrest warrant for Willis Carto (with English translation)
• The Barnes Review, Carto's history magazine, founded in 1994

References

• Carto, Willis A. (1982) Profiles in Populism. Flag Press.
• Mintz, Frank P. (1985). The Liberty Lobby and the American Right: Race, Conspiracy, and Culture. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
• Coogan, Kevin. (1999). Dreamer of the Day: Francis Parker Yockey and the Postwar Fascist International. Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia.