Franz Heinz Pfeiffer Richter
Franz Heinz Pfeiffer Richter (Temuco, 1937-October 1997) was a Chilean politician and professor[1] of German descent,[2] founder and leader of the National Socialist Workers Party of Chile - Partido Nacional Socialista Obrero de Chile (PNSO),[3] whose intention was to re-found National Socialism in Chile which had disintegrated into Chilean Falangism and agrarian-laborism.[4]
In the 1950s, Pfeiffer-Richter began establishing international links.[5]
Pfeiffer-Richter, and four of his followers in the National Socialist Movement, were indicted for trying to dynamite a synagogue on May 21, 1958. Three days later, his group allegedly tried to set a Jewish clubhouse afire and at about the same time three other synagogues were attacked. "While the five were in prison awaiting trial, police raided the movement’s head-quarters and found a large collection of flags and other Nazi and Ku Klux Klan material, as well as pictures of Hitler."[6]
Pfeiffer-Richter's 1958 terror case was an
exception in Chile. Historian notes:[7]
With the exception of Franz Pfeifer—the German-Chilean neo-Nazi who attempted to bomb a synagogue in 1958—no other
right-winger did anything remotely comparable.
In 1962, the World Union of National Socialists (WUNS) was formed, led by Nazi Party's George Lincoln Rockwell, of which Franz Pfeiffer was the representative for Chile. In the same year Pfeiffer created the National Socialist Workers' Party of Chile strictly using the ideology and aesthetics of his German predecessor.[8] Rockwell had made a very good impression of Pfeiffer out of his loyalty to the Nazis in exile in the country and who were in the process of extradition for war crimes.[9] That same year the party's headquarters was raided and the organization dissolved. Once the party was founded, its magazine Cruz Gamada began to circulate, financed thanks to the contribution of Arab institutions and with anti-Semitic content.[10] In 1963, the party led by Pfeiffer managed to attract nearly 10,000 members.[11][12]
Among the activities of this group were the organization of a Miss Nazi[13] beauty contest and the formation of a Chilean branch of the Ku Klux Klan.
Pfeiffer-Richter's propaganda was linked with the Arab League's.[14][15]
Pfeiffer-Richter's publication Cruz Gamada (swastika), was another example of cooperation between pro-Nazi groups and the Arabs, most of which was devoted to "Palestine, Arab land" and "Communist[sic] Jewish [sic] infiltration," or "Capitalist ... " (Nazis never had a problem with contradiction, of course).[14]
See also
References
- ↑ Etchepare, J. A.; Stewart, H. I. (1995). "Nazism in Chile: A particular type of Fascism in South America". Journal of Contemporary History 30 (4): 584.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 A NEO-NAZI GROUP EMERGES IN CHILE; Plans to Enter a Candidate in Presidential Election, The New York Times, Nov 26, 1963
SANTIAGO, Chile, Nov. 23 (Reuters)--Most Chileans are turning a cold shoulder to the emergence of a brown-shirted Nazi youth organization that claims a membership of 6,000.
- ↑ "Desde la historia: Nazis en Chile en los años 60". elpensador.io. 10 September 2018.
- ↑ Valenzuela, E. (2017). La generación fusilada: Memorias del nacismo chileno (1932-1938). Santiago: Editorial Universitaria
- ↑ Basso Prieto, Carlos. ChileNazi: Un siglo de xenofobia y totalitarismo. Chile: Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Chile, 2020, ch. 6. [1].
- ↑ Nazi Youths in Chile to Go on Trial for Attacks on Synagogues, JTA, November 27, 1963.
- ↑ Guzmán, Gustavo. Attitudes of the Chilean Right Toward Jews: From Acceptable Undesirables to Respected Businessmen. Netherlands: Brill, 2022, p.247.
- ↑ Rama, C. M. (1974). Les racines fascistes du régime militaire chilien. Raison présente, '32(1), 7-25. [2]
- ↑ Kaplan, J., & Bjørgo, T. (Eds.). (1998). Nation and race: the developing Euro-American racist subculture. Northeastern University Press, pp. 43-4.
- ↑ Nes-El, Moshé (2012). "Las ideas nacionalistas en Chile". Cuadernos Judaicos 29: 104-154, p.132.
- ↑ Holton, G. E., & Austin, R. (2007). Houve um holocausto chileno?. Tensões Mundiais, 3(4), p. 311. [3]
- ↑ Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas. Hitler's Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth, and Neo-Nazism. United States: New York University Press, 2012, ch. 12. [4].
Through the WUNS she came into contact with Franz Pfeiffer, a German Nazi who had fled to Chile after the war. In 1963 he had founded the Partido Nacional Socialista Obrero Chileno (National Socialist Chilean Workers' Party), which joined the WUNS.
- ↑ McPherson, Alan. Ghosts of Sheridan Circle: How a Washington Assassination Brought Pinochet's Terror State to Justice. United States: University of North Carolina Press, 2019, p.25.
In the early 1960s, language teacher Franz Pfeiffer Richter revived the National Socialist Party. "We are anti-Communist and anti-Semites," claimed Pfeiffer. "Our movement follows the same rules set by Hitler." "Commander" Pfeiffer also parroted Hitler's uniforms, flags, and salutes. He tried to found the Chilean branch of the Ku Klux Klan and held a contest to crown "Miss Nazi." His magazine? Swastika.
Most perverse of all was Paul Schäfer (or Schaefer), a former Nazi corporal who ran a secretive German-themed cult enclave in southern Chile. After World War II Schäfer became a preacher and fled Germany, dogged by accusations of molesting boys at the orphanage he ran. ...
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Kaufman, Edy. Shapira, Yoram. Barromi, Joel. Israeli-Latin American Relations. United States: Transaction Books, 1979, p. 87n167.
Cooperation with Latin American antisemitic groups has long been an Arab tactic. A curious result of this policy occurred at the United Nations in 1962. Ahmed Shukairy, then head of the Saudi Arabian delegation, openly praised the Argentine Nazi group Tacuara. The Argentine delegate expressed dismay.
Another example of cooperation between pro-Nazi groups and the Arabs is the Chilean publication Cruz Gamada (swastika), most of which is devoted to "Palestine, Arab land" and "Communist[sic] Jewish [sic] infiltration," or "Capitalist ...
Another curious result of this sort of collusion took place in Buenos Aires in 1964. At a public meeting called to express solidarity with the Arab states, the Arab League delegate was greeted with the shout "Expel the Jews to Israel" and with the Nazi salute.
- ↑ Defays, Christian., Syfrig, Max. Les Nazis parmi nous: Enquête sur les mouvements d'extrême-droite dans le monde. Switzerland: Éditions Tribune de Lausanne, 1967, pp. 30-31.
... firebombs destroyed several Jewish schools and streets were one morning named Adolf Hitler Street.
By far the most active of these organizations is the Tacuara, whose leader Joe Baxter, wanted by police for bombing and murder, flew to North Vietnam in December 1964.
Additionally, many sections of the Peronist movement blacklisted Jewish communities.
The Arab League, remotely controlled from Cairo by the "Institute for the Study of Zionism", directed by Hamoud Saleh, maintains a permanent campaign of subversion throughout the South American continent, in particular by buying pages in the newspapers to 'castigate' the Jews.
Advertisements, for example, read as follows: "The disaster for Christians began with the rise to power of the J... Freemason Roosevelt..."
The Arab League
For Argentina, the Arab League had at its head for a very long time (until August 1944) a man named Hussein Triki, of Tunisian origin, arrested during the Second World War by the French, then released by the Germans before settled in Berlin where he took part in an unconditional collaboration with the masters of the Third Reich... deputy, Raoul Jassen, also had, in 1964, contacts described as fruitful with the leader (Pfeiffer-Richter) of the National Socialist Workers' Party of Chile.
These contacts were intended to develop a common program of anti-Semitic actions. This should come as no surprise from Richter, who was sentenced to three years in prison in 1964 for setting fire to a synagogue in 1958.
The movement Richter leads publishes and distributes a free newspaper called Swastika, whose main slogan is short, clear and precise: Hitler was [sic] right. In public, the members of this association wear the Nazi uniform without complex.
The Uruguayan extremist fascist movement names MURO. It is run by Garcia Mellid, Peron's friend. He was also Argentine Ambassador to Uruguay. This movement maintains close contacts with the Argentine Tacuara which sends it instructions and arms. The Arab League provides material for anti-Semitic propaganda.
During a press conference held in Buenos Aires on March 3, 1964, Triki did not hesitate to specify that the persons in charge of the Tacuara came to see him .. distribution for all the National Socialist and anti-Semitic literature sent in the countries of South America. The Arab League subsidizes this distribution.
The main prominent leaders of all these South American subversive movements are: Alberto Ezcurra (right wing Tacuara), Joe Baxter (left wing Tacuara), Horst Eichmann (Eichmann's son), Mario Adolfo Baccino (Uruguayan MURO), Garcia Mellid and Franz Pfeiffer-Richter.
We will better measure the implantation of these various cells throughout the continent by knowing that each of them is divided into five departments (military, press and propaganda, coordination, finances and communications); nor will we underestimate their intervention forces when we know that they are subdivided into central, regional and local organisations.
And we will no longer be surprised to find that the Bormanns and Mengeles, officially Paraguayan citizens, can, twenty-seven years after their crimes, continue to defy justice.
The complicities are indeed not lacking! from the Gestapo .. Dusseldorf...