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Begin­ning with review of Yockey and the post-war fas­cist inter­na­tional, the pro­gram ana­lyzes Yockey’s mag­num opus Imperium. This fas­cist tract pro­poses a Euro­pean pan-fascist empire as a bul­wark against the for­mer Soviet Union and the United States. (It should be noted that Yockey viewed the U.S. as the greater threat.)

Yockey (in part­ner­ship with other mem­bers of the post-war fas­cist inter­na­tional) formed an early attempt at real­iz­ing Imperium: the Euro­pean Lib­er­a­tion Front. A united, fas­cist Europe was a goal envis­aged by key mem­bers of the SS (the Waf­fen SS, in par­tic­u­lar) dur­ing the clos­ing stages of the Sec­ond World War. In con­sid­er­a­tion of the alien­at­ing effect of the doc­tri­naire Ger­man chau­vin­ism of the “tra­di­tional” SS and the Third Reich, these SS offi­cials sought to rem­edy the defect.

Propos­ing that Europe be con­sol­i­dated as a fas­cist entity with­out nation­al­ist hier­ar­chy, these SS men exerted a direct, per­sonal influ­ence on Yockey and his ideas.

The pro­gram under­scores the pro­found anti-Americanism of Yockey, and the influ­ence this out­look has had on con­tem­po­rary fas­cist groups. Although Yockey is not well known by those out­side the ranks of doc­tri­naire fas­cists (and those who study them), he was very influential.

One of the best-known fig­ures on the far right was Sen­a­tor Joe McCarthy, who was sig­nif­i­cantly influ­enced by Yockey. Intro­duced to Yockey’s think­ing and work by com­mon asso­ciates on the pro-German far right, McCarthy incor­po­rated Yockey’s atti­tude and work in his attack on the Malm­edy tri­als. (These war crimes tri­als assessed the fate of SS offi­cers who had mas­sa­cred Amer­i­can POW’s dur­ing the Bat­tle of the Bulge.)

McCarthy bit­terly attacked Amer­i­can sur­vivors of the mas­sacre and his and oth­ers’ attacks on the Malm­edy pro­ceed­ings sub­verted fur­ther pros­e­cu­tions of Nazi war crim­i­nals and under­mined the denaz­i­fi­ca­tion of Germany.

Pro­gram High­lights Include: dis­cus­sion of the mys­te­ri­ous fate of Karl Hanke (selected to suc­ceed Hein­rich Himm­ler as head of the SS (Hanke flew out of Berlin as the Red Army was enter­ing the city, never to be seen or heard from again); dis­cus­sion of Werner Best (one of the SS the­o­reti­cians who influ­enced Yockey’s think­ing); dis­cus­sion of Franz Alfred Six (an SS col­league of Best and an influ­ence on Yockey); dis­cus­sion of Alfred Franke-Griksch (an SS asso­ciate of Best and Six and an influ­ence on Yockey); analy­sis of the atti­tude of influ­en­tial Amer­i­can mil­i­tary offi­cers who shared McCarthy’s antipa­thy toward the Malm­edy tri­als; dis­cus­sion of the impend­ing pub­li­ca­tion of Kevin Coogan’s bril­liant and con­sum­mately impor­tant man­u­script “Amer­i­can Gladio?” (Recorded on 3/l9/2000.)