Francis Parker Yockey

Francis Parker Yockey
Yockey c. 1959–1960
Born(1917-09-18)September 18, 1917
DiedJune 17, 1960(1960-06-17) (aged 42)
San Francisco County Jail, San Francisco, California, U.S.
Other namesUlick Varange
Alma materUniversity of Arizona (BA)
Notre Dame Law School (JD)
Occupation(s)Author, attorney
Notable workImperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics

Francis Parker Yockey (September 18, 1917 – June 17, 1960) was an American fascist and pan-Europeanist ideologue.[1][2] A lawyer, he is known for his neo-Spenglerian book Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics, published in 1948 under the pen name Ulick Varange, which was dedicated indirectly to Adolf Hitler and called for a neo-Nazi European empire.[3][4][2][5]

Yockey supported far-right causes around the world and remains an influence of white nationalist and neo-fascist movements.[6][7] Yockey was an antisemite, revered German Nazism, and was an early Holocaust denier.[4] In the 1930s he contacted or worked with the Nazi-aligned Silver Shirts and the German-American Bund.[8] He served in the U.S. Army in 1942–43, and went AWOL to help Nazi spies.[9][4] After legal appointments in Detroit in 1944–45, he worked for eleven months on the War Crimes tribunal in Germany before he either resigned or was fired for siding with the Nazis.[9][8] In London, he worked for the British fascist Oswald Mosley's Union Movement, and after falling out with Mosley, founded the breakaway European Liberation Front in 1949, leading it until it fizzled around 1954.[10][11][12]

During the Cold War, Yockey reportedly worked with Soviet bloc intelligence, and argued for a tactical far-right alliance with the Soviets against what he saw as Jewish-American hegemony.[6][13][14] He also briefly wrote anti-Jewish propaganda in Egypt,[15] where he met its president Gamal Abdel Nasser.[16] Yockey remained influential in fascist circles until his suicide in FBI custody in 1960.[17] Yockey's last visitor in prison was Willis Carto, who became the leading advocate and publisher of his writings.[18]

  1. ^ Bassin, Mark (2022). "Real Europe" Civilizationism and the Far Right in Eastern Europe (PDF). Södertörn, Sweden: Södertörn University.
  2. ^ a b Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas (2002). Black sun : Aryan cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the politics of identity. New York: New York University Press. p. 75. ISBN 0-585-43467-0. OCLC 52467699.
  3. ^ Staff (ndg) "Extremism in America: Willis Carto" Anti-Defamation League Archived October 12, 2006, at the Wayback Machine, ADL.
  4. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference :0 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Staff (February 1, 1996) "Poisoning the Airwaves: The Extremist Message of Hate on Shortwave Radio" Anti-Defamation League
  6. ^ a b Lee 2000a, p. xvi.
  7. ^ Campbell, Linda P. (January 12, 1992). "Liberty Lobby In The Spotlight With Duke, Buchanan In Race". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on September 6, 2015.
  8. ^ a b Steiger, Brad and Steiger, Sherry Hanson (2006). Conspiracies and Secret Societies: The Complete Dossier. Canton Township, Michigan: Visible Ink Press. ISBN 978-1-57859-174-9.
  9. ^ a b Goodrick-Clarke 2002, p. 75-76.
  10. ^ Mulhall, Joe (2021). British Fascism After the Holocaust : From the Birth of Denial to the Notting Hill Riots 1939-1958. Abingdon, Oxon. ISBN 978-0-429-45262-8. OCLC 1158504603.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  11. ^ Cite error: The named reference :7 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  12. ^ Paul Jackson; Anton Shekhovtsov, eds. (2014). The post-war Anglo-American far right : a special relationship of hate. Basingstoke. ISBN 978-1-137-39621-1. OCLC 890161379.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  13. ^ Rose, Matthew (2021). A World After Liberalism : Philosophers of the Radical Right. New Haven. ISBN 978-0-300-26308-4. OCLC 1255236096.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  14. ^ Shekhovtsov 2017, p. 24.
  15. ^ Goodrick-Clarke 2002, p. 77.
  16. ^ Coogan 1999, p. 17.
  17. ^ Goodrick-Clarke 2002, pp. 75–77, 260.
  18. ^ Cite error: The named reference :6 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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