Abstract
Alan Berg was a talk radio personality in Denver in the early 1980s who, like many professionals of the art of talk, could get his audience going. Thin, bearded, and graying, the chainsmoking Berg talked fast, loved to push his callers’ buttons, and thrived on controversy. Both popular and despised, Berg was always controversial, especially among the right-wingers in his audience—neo-Nazis, white supremacists, John Birchers, and survivalists. They loved to hate this pushy, loud-mouthed Jew from New York City, and Berg loved to hate them back.
I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, but thou art rich; and I know the blasphemy of them that say they are Jews, and are not, but are synagogue of Satan.
Rev. 3:9, KJV
Are there any Nazis out there ... I’m a Jew and I’d like to talk to them.
Denver talk show host Alan Berg 1
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James Coates, Armed and Dangerous: The Rise of the Survivalist Right (New York: Hill & Wang, New York), 7.
Ibid.
Ibid, 3.
Norman Cohn, Warrant for Genocide: The Myth of the Jewish World Conspiracy and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (New York: Harper and Row, 1966), 21–22.
Ibid, 283. World Conquest through World Government: The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, translated from the Russian by Sergei A. Nilus (Chulmleigh, England: Britons Pub. Co.). The Protocols can be found on the Internet, accessed through various right-wing, Patriot, and militia home pages.
Cohn, Warrant for Genocide, 25.
Ibid, 61.
Ibid, 189.
Ibid, 189.
Ibid, 160-163; James Coates, Armed and Dangerous: The Rise of the Survivalist Right (New York: Hill and Wang, 1987).
Cohn, Warrant for Genocide, 164.
Ibid, 229-230.
Ibid, 284.
James Corcoran, Bitter Harvest: Gordon Kahl and the Posse Comitatus—Murder in the Heartland (New York: Viking-Penguin, 1990), 75, 152.
Ibid, 38, 137.
Ibid, 40, 152-153.
Ibid, 11.
Ibid, 34.
Ibid, 34-35.
Ibid, 35.
Southern Poverty Law Center, Klanwatch Special Reports: Outlawing Hate Crime (Montgomery, Alabama, 1989).
Other organizations that track the development of racist and anti-Semitic groups include the Anti-Defamation League of the B’nai B’rith, the Center for Democratic Renewal (Atlanta, Georgia), and the National Institute against Prejudice and Violence (Washington, D.C.), as well as various government agencies.
Corcoran, Bitter Harvest, 36.
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Ibid, 32.
Michael Barkun, Religion and the Racist Right: The Origins of the Christian Identity Movement (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994).
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Ibid; Corcoran, Bitter Harvest, 38-39; Coates, Armed and Dangerous, 82.
Corcoran, Bitter Harvest, 38-39.
Ibid, 39.
Jack Levin and Jack McDevitt, Hate Crimes: The Rising Tide of Bigotry and Bloodshed (New York: Plenum Press, 1993).
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Lamy, P. (1996). Antichrist. In: Millennium Rage. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6076-4_5
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