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]
Biography
Yockey had many aliases, and some facts about him are not certain.[6][19] Acquaintances and declassified FBI files described him as a talented speaker, brilliant, well-read, sometimes charming, humorous and a gifted mimic — but also haughty, immature, secretive, a loner, and, in the FBI's words, "nervous, high-strung, erratic, unpredictable and dictatorial", with "an amazing capacity for alienating people".[20]
Early life and education
Yockey was born in 1917 in Chicago, Illinois, the youngest of four siblings in an upper-middle-class Catholic family of Irish and German descent.[17][21][22] His father was a stockbroker.[22] Yockey was raised in Ludington, Michigan.[17] He learned classical piano.[20]
Yockey had been attracted to Marxism in early life[24] before gravitating to Adolf Hitler and Nazism in the 1930s, and in college, Oswald Spengler.[22] Other influences include Karl Haushofer[25] and the Nazi theorist Carl Schmitt, whom Yockey was later accused of plagiarizing.[10][26][27] Yockey joined pro-German and pro-fascist groups in the late 1930s.[9] In 1938, his essay "The Tragedy of Youth" was published in Social Justice, a journal known for publishing antisemitic tracts that was distributed by the "radio priest" Charles Coughlin.[28][29] In 1939 Yockey spoke at a gathering of Silvershirts.[8][9]
World War II and immediate postwar
Yockey enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1942, serving in an intelligence unit. He went AWOL from his camp in Georgia in November 1942 on a Nazi mission to Texas and Mexico City.[9] According to Yockey's biographer Kevin Coogan, Yockey secretly helped German Nazi spies who had landed in the United States and Mexico. He was also a friend of a German American intelligence officer Herbert Hans Haupt, who stayed at the home of his wife and was later executed for espionage for his participation in Operation Pastorius.[30] Later, Yockey received an honorable discharge from the Army for "dementia praecox, paranoid type" in 1943 after suffering a nervous breakdown or feigning one.[4][22][31] He was placed on a government list of Americans suspected of pro-Nazi views.[22] In 1944 he became an assistant prosecuting attorney for Wayne County, Michigan, but was bored by the work, leaving in 1945.[9][22]
In early 1946, Yockey found a job with the United States War Department in Wiesbaden, Germany, as a post-trial review attorney for the Nuremberg Trials, and he moved to Germany with his wife and two daughters.[22] Evidence suggests Yockey may have tried to help accused Nazi war criminals including SS General Otto Ohlendorf by sharing top-secret documents with German defense lawyers.[4] Often absent from his job, he was fired for "abandonment of position" on the 26th of November 1946,[32] when it was noticed that he was siding with the Nazis.[8][22] He agitated against Allied occupation of Germany,[33] and later worked for the Red Cross in Germany but deserted his post.[8] U.S. intelligence began tracking Yockey in Germany in 1946 or 1947.[34] Yockey left his estranged wife and daughters in Germany in 1947 for exile in Ireland.[22]
Yockey identified the United States, not Russia, as Europe's main enemy, urged Europeans not to collaborate with America in the Cold War, and wanted to act against American forces in Germany and England.[15] He hoped to weaken or overthrow the government of the United States.[8] Yockey's ideas were usually embraced only by those who could countenance an alliance between the far left and the far right.[36][37]
Yockey became embittered with Sir Oswald Mosley (Hitler's leading British proponent[11]) after the latter refused to publish or review Imperium upon its completion, after having promised to do so.[43] Mosley punched Yockey in the nose during a dispute in London's Hyde Park.[11] With a small group of British fascists including the former Mosleyites Guy Chesham and John Gannon, Yockey formed the European Liberation Front (ELF) in 1948–49. The ELF formed ties with old Nazis along with other fascists.[44] It issued a newsletter, Frontfighter, and in 1949 published Yockey's virulent anti-American, anti-communist and antisemitic text The Proclamation of London, which called for a reinstatement of Nazism and the expulsion of the Jews (whom it labeled "the Culture-distorter") from Europe.[31][15][45] The ELF was opposed by other neo-fascist groups and essentially disappeared by 1954 due to members being alienated by Yockey's imperious personality.[12][22]
Declassified FBI files show that Yockey traveled to Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York to collaborate with ultra-right activists, while eluding FBI agents who sought to question him. As a fugitive he spoke at the 1950 Christian Nationalist Party convention in Los Angeles organized by Gerald L. K. Smith.[34] He also spent time in New Orleans writing propaganda for use in Latin America.[8] His intercepted letters to other fascists in the 1950s were often signed "Torquemada" after the torturer of the Spanish Inquisition.[34]
Yockey was approached by the group around the anti-Communist Senator Joseph McCarthy in 1951. He was asked to ghost-write a speech for McCarthy which stressed the importance of greater friendship between Germany and the United States. Although McCarthy never delivered it as the theme of the speech, when it was announced through posters in the Yorkville neighbourhood of New York City, the-then Left Wing newspaper The Daily Compass ran a front page expose, alongside negative press attention from the New York Post, probably influenced by the fact that a series of well known Holocaust deniers were going to speak alongside him.[46]
Yockey collaborated with Soviet bloc intelligence, traveled behind the Iron Curtain, and was suspected of visiting East Germany, the Soviet Union and Cuba.[47][2] One theory for this derives from a September 1956 story about a mysterious American man, who went by the name of "Frederick C. Hopkins" who was released from Soviet police custody on the 6th of September 1956.[48] He wrote with approval of antisemitic purges in the Eastern bloc countries.[11] In late 1952, he traveled to Prague and witnessed the Prague Trials, and asserted that they "foretold a Russian break with Jewry".[49] He then became a Czechoslovak Secret Service courier.[22] He is suspected of having been in contact with a Soviet agent by the name of Alfred Francke-Gricksch.[50]
Yockey was known as a womanizer, and had an affair with Hazel Guggenheim McKinley.[54] In 1957, FBI agents assessed that he was "living in Los Angeles as a pimp or a gigolo" and had written pornography for money, including a sadomasochistic booklet called Arduous Figure Training at Bondhaven that was later found in his suitcase.[34] The 62 pages booklet was published by Nutrix Company of Jersey City and according to the FBI "contained numerous sketeches of partially clad females and [...] was of a masochistic or sadistic nature."[55]
Arrest and death
After more than a decade of pursuit by the FBI, Yockey was finally arrested in 1960 after returning to the United States from abroad. En route to Oakland, California, his suitcase had either been lost or had broken open at the Dallas airport, and authorities found several of Yockey's falsified passports and birth certificates.[22][31] When this was reported to the federal government, the FBI tracked Yockey down in Oakland, California, and arrested him.[31] While in prison, he was visited by Carto,[18] who later became the chief advocate and publisher of Yockey's ideas. While he was there, he was staying with the principal of a yeshiva called Alexander Scharf, who he had met in Reno and intended to give a loan of 2,000 USD.[56] Yockey was soon after found dead with an empty cyanide capsule nearby while in a jail cell in San Francisco under FBI supervision. Writing after his suicide, the San Francisco Chronicle declared him "as important a figure in world Fascism as we now know."[4]
Occult and philosophy interests
Coogan writes that "Yockey's occult interests had political ramifications" as he "clearly saw himself as part of an underground elite, a secret new race of god-men".[57] Yockey was an owner of documents relating to Theosophy, according to the FBI.[57] At the time of his suicide, he had copies of books and articles written by Baltasar Gracián, Otto Weininger, H. G. Wells, and George B. Leonard.[58]
Yockey's present influence is reflected mostly through the work of Willis Carto and his Liberty Lobby and successor organizations. According to Stephen E. Atkins, "Because of the efforts of Carto, Yockey is more popular after his death than he ever was when he was alive".[22] Carto ran the Youth for George Wallace group supporting segregationist George Wallace's 1968 presidential campaign. That group formed the basis for the National Youth Alliance, which promoted Yockey's political philosophy and his book Imperium.[31] Core members of Carto's political groups were members of the Francis Parker Yockey Society, a neo-Nazi cult.[66] Afterward, Yockey continued to be a cult figure among neo-fascists.[47] His influence also persists among Odinists.[67] According to the American political scientist George Hawley, "Yockey's vision of a global fascist movement that transcends national borders is now a common trope within the Alt-Right".[37]
In his 2011 book of correspondences with American conductor David Woodard, Swiss writer Christian Kracht recommended Yockey's Imperium.[68] The following year, Kracht published his bestselling novel Imperium.
In Malta, the Neo-Fascist leader by the name of Norman Lowell is heavily inspired by Yockey's book Imperium, and has the name of his organization, Imperium Europa directly alluding to it.[69]
^ abPaul Jackson; Anton Shekhovtsov, eds. (2014). The post-war Anglo-American far right : a special relationship of hate. Basingstoke. ISBN978-1-137-39621-1. OCLC890161379.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^Michael, George (2008). Willis Carto and the American far right. Mazal Holocaust Collection. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. ISBN978-0-8130-3198-9. OCLC173243789.
Yockey, Francis Parker The World in Flames: The Shorter Writtings of Francis Parker Yockey[1]
Further reading
Coogan, Kevin (1999). Dreamer of the day: Francis Parker Yockey and the Postwar Fascist International. Brooklyn, New York: Autonomedia. ISBN1-57027-039-2.
Mintz, Frank P. Mintz (1985) The Liberty Lobby and the American Right: Race, Conspiracy, and Culture. Westport, Connecticut:Greenwood Press ISBN978-0-31-324393-6
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