William Dudley Pelley

William Dudley Pelley ( born March 12, 1890 in Lynn, Massachusetts, † June 30, 1965 in Noblesville, Indiana ) was an American anti-Semite and founder of the anti-Semitic movement Silver Shirts.

As the son of an English Methodist Pelley was coined by its pride in its "pure" English ancestry. In 1917 he went to Hollywood to work as an author. He worked on films such as The Light in the Dark and The Shock. In the aftermath of the First World War he worked as a journalist. In 1928 he wrote an article Seven Minutes in Eternity for the American Magazine, which earned him national attention. 1932 Pelley moved to Asheville, to found a university. The priorities of the University were on a Christian economics. Alongside he ran a publishing house that published the weekly newspaper Liberation. In this he spread his anti-Semitic views of the world. When Hitler came to power in Germany, Pelley founded the Silver Shirts. In 1936 he founded the Christian Party, whose aim was, among other things, to prohibit Jews to purchase land in the United States. In the same year he became a candidate of that party at the time of the presidential election. Nationwide, he scored 1598 votes and landed so that the rear of the candidate field.

In 1942 he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for sedition, of which he served seven years. After his release, he sat down on one of his anti-Semitic and anti- UN thoughts. He also advocated a racial segregation.