Atomwaffen Division

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Atomwaffen Division
CountryUnited States
Leader(s)James Nolan Mason (advisor), multiple cell leaders[1]
Foundation2015[2]
Preceded byIron March[2][3][4]
Motives
Active region(s)United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany and Baltic States
Ideology
Political positionThird Position to Far-right politics
Major actionsMurders of five people, including the Murder of Blaze Bernstein
StatusActive
Size80+ (2018)
HeadquartersFlorida, United States
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The Atomwaffen Division (Atomwaffen meaning "atomic weapons" in German) is a neo-Nazi terrorist network. Formed in 2015 and based in the United States, it has since expanded across the United States and to the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, and the Baltic states. The group is part of the alt-right,[6][7][8][9][10] but is considered extreme even within that movement.[6] It is listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).[11]

Atomwaffen encourages flag desecration, the burning of the United States Constitution, and attacks on the federal government of the United States, minorities, gays, and Jews.[12]

Atomwaffen has engaged in plans to cripple public water systems and destroy parts of the Continental U.S. power transmission grid.[12] Atomwaffen has also been accused of planning to blow up nuclear plants to cause nuclear meltdowns.[12] The organization aims for a violent overthrow of the federal government of the United States via terrorism and guerrilla warfare tactics. Since 2017, the organization has been linked to five killings and several assaults.[13][14][15]

The organization explicitly advocates neo-Nazism, drawing significant influence from James Mason and his publication, Siege, a mid-1980s newsletter of the National Socialist Liberation Front. It was published into a book that is required reading for all members. Mason, a neo-Nazi and holocaust denier who advocates murder and violence to create lawlessness and anarchy and destabilize the system, is a main advisor to the group.[16][17]

The group advocates a revival of Italian Futurism,[17] a pre-World War I avant-garde art movement which glorified "war - the world's only hygiene - militarism, patriotism, the destructive gesture of freedom-bringers, beautiful ideas worth dying for."[18]

ProPublica obtained 250,000 encrypted chat logs written by members of the group.[12]

Some members of the group are sympathetic towards the Salafi movement and jihadism, forms of Islam. The leader of Atomwaffen Division, Brandon Russell, is alleged to have described Omar Mateen, who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and perpetrated the Orlando nightclub shooting, as "a hero". A member of Atomwaffen Division, Stephen Billingsley, was photographed at a vigil in San Antonio, Texas, for the victims of the Orlando shooting, with a skull mask and a sign saying "God Hates Fags".[19][20][21][22]

Atomwaffen Divison has recruited several veterans and current members of the U.S. Armed Forces who train the members in firearms and hand-to-hand combat.[23][24] Atomwaffen members have also sought to train with the Azov Battalion in Ukraine.[25]

Some have tied Atomwaffen to the fascist Satanist group the Order of Nine Angles.[17][26]

In 2015, the group announced its creation on the neo-Nazi website IronMarch.org,[2][27] that has been linked to several acts of neo-nazi terrorism and violent militant groups such as Nordic Resistance Movement, National Action and Azov Battalion.[17][3][4] In its initial posts, the group described itself as a "very fanatical, ideological band of comrades who do both activism and militant training. Hand to hand, arms training, and various other forms of training. As for activism, we spread awareness in the real world through unconventional means."[27]

The group's membership is mostly young, and the group has recruited on university campuses.[28][29] Its campus recruitment poster campaigns[7] urge students to "Join Your Local Nazis!" and say "The Nazis Are Coming!". It posted recruiting posters at the University of Chicago,[30][27] the University of Central Florida,[31] the Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia,[32] and Boston University.[33][34]

In early 2018, ProPublica estimated Atomwaffen had 80 members,[13] while the Anti-Defamation League estimated it had 24 to 36 active members.[35]

The group is one of several neo-Nazi and alt-right organizations to be banned by Discord and YouTube for violation of Terms of Service.[36] However, the group has since re-uploaded content to YouTube[37] and Youtube has allowed the content to stay online.[38]

Members that faced criminal charges[edit]

Devon Arthurs[edit]

One 18-year-old member, Devon Arthurs, of Tampa Palms, Florida, converted to Islam and described himself as a "Salafist National Socialist." In May 2017, Arthurs allegedly killed two of his roommates and fellow Atomwaffen Division members in retaliation for ridiculing his conversion. Arthurs was arrested following a hostage situation, during which he told police he shot 22-year-old Jeremy Himmelman and 18-year-old Andrew Oneschuk earlier that day.[22][39][40] In 2018, following competency evaluations by two court-appointed experts (a neuropsychologist and a psychologist), Arthurs was ruled incompetent to stand trial. He spent more than a year at the Florida State Hospital receiving treatment to make him competent to face trial. Arthurs is currently facing two counts of first-degree murder in addition to kidnapping and firearm charges.[41][42]

Brandon Russell[edit]

In May 2017, after Arthurs' arrest, his third roommate, a 21-year-old, Brandon Russell, was arrested by the FBI along with a 20-year-old accompanying him, William Tschantre, both of them Atomwaffen members. The car they were driving included assault rifles, body armor and in excess of 1000 rounds of ammunition which they had acquired after the shooting in Tampa Palms.[43][44] The authorities found in Russell's garage explosive precursors ammonium nitrate and nitromethane, homemade detonators[45][46] and an explosive compound hexamethylene triperoxide diamine. HMTD has been used by other groups in improvised explosive devices such as the 2016 New York and New Jersey bombings, and ammonium nitrate and nitromethane were used by Timothy McVeigh in the Oklahoma City bombing. The raid also found thorium and americium, radioactive substances, in Russell's bedroom. Russell, a former student at the University of South Florida and a Florida Army National Guardsman, had a framed photograph of Timothy McVeigh in his bedroom.[47][48] The raid also discovered various Atomwaffen paraphernalia and other neo-Nazi propaganda.[49] FBI agents initially released Russell, who claimed that he used the explosives to power model rockets, a decision that was questioned by many.[50]

In September 2017, Russell pleaded guilty in federal court to possessing an unregistered destructive device and to illegally storing explosives; in January 2018, he was sentenced to five years in prison for those crimes.[49]

Vasillios Pistolis[edit]

In August 2017, during the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Vasillios Pistolis, a member of the United States Marine Corps who was a member of Atomwaffen, was recorded chanting "White Lives Matter" and "You Will Not Replace Us" with his fellow torch-bearing protestors on the first day. On the second day, he assaulted Emily Gorcenski, a transgender woman[51] with a modified version of the Confederate flag which incorporated the neo-Nazi Black Sun symbol in the center, even bragging about the beating in private chats under the alias of "VasillistheGreek": "So to sum it up what I did Friday, dropped kicked that tranny that made video crying", "Today cracked 3 skulls open with virtually no damage to myself", and "I drop kicked Emily Gorcenski". Pistolis was also part of a gang of neo-nazis that assaulted an interracial couple at a restaurant in a suburb of Nashville, Tennessee.[29] Pistolis had promoted the Unite the Right rally on Twitter and posted an image of a car running over a left-winger with the caption "Good Night, Left Side". He also mocked the death of Heather Heyer, calling her "a fat cunt who died of a heart attack. She wasn't even in the way of the car".[52][23]

Although Pistolis denied that he participated in the rally or committed a violent act, he was later investigated by the United States Marine Corps and court-martialed,[29] then later imprisoned, in June 2018 for disobeying orders and making false statements. He was officially separated from the United States Marine Corps in August 2018.[51]

Nicholas Giampa[edit]

On December 22, 2017, 17-year-old Nicholas Giampa allegedly shot and killed his girlfriend's parents in Reston, Virginia after they forbade her from dating him because of his neo-Nazism views. Giampa is open about both his admiration for James Mason, Siege, and his membership in Atomwaffen Division. After the killings, he shot himself but survived.[53][54] Giampa is being held at a youth detention center in Fairfax, Virginia. In August 2018, it was ruled that the damage caused by the self-inflicted gunshot wound had left him incompetent to stand trial.[55]

Samuel Woodward[edit]

Main article: Murder of Blaze Bernstein

In January 2018, Samuel Woodward was charged in Orange County, California, with the Murder of Blaze Bernstein, an openly gay Jewish college student. Woodward is an avowed neo-Nazi and a member of Atomwaffen Division who had attended events and training camps.[13] According to chat logs subsequently published by ProPublica, one member of Atomwaffen Division wrote of the killing "I love this" and another praised Woodward as a "one man gay Jew wrecking crew". The logs suggested there are around 20 Atomwaffen cells across the U.S., that some members have taken part in weapons training, and show members praising Timothy McVeigh, responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing, Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof, and Norwegian mass-murderer and white supremacist Anders Breivik. The Murder of Blaze Bernstein was the fifth killing tied to Atomwaffen.[12]

Benjamin Bogard[edit]

Twenty-year-old Benjamin Bogard was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in February 2019 after the FBI received a tip that Bogard might be planning a terrorist attack. According to an agent, Bogard talked about wanting to go cross-country to find and kill minorities, Mexicans, and women, anyone who Bogard felt was "shit". He said on one video, which he ended with a Nazi salute, "Pull out your shotgun, get to the side of the road, pump that shit open, point it at them, and pull the trigger." On Twitter, he described himself as a "future mass shooter" and said that his favorite part of a gun is "the part that kills 30 babies per trigger pull." Bogard embraced white supremacist beliefs and discussed obtaining a chemical substance to make a bomb. Bogard had also searched online for targets to bomb and planned attacking the state capitol. According to federal authorities, Bogard claims to be a member of the Atomwaffen Division. He was arrested on charges of possession of child pornography after the authorities uncovered videos of young girls being raped on his phone during the investigation. The FBI decided to arrest him because it appeared that Bogard was "mobilizing for violence." [56][57]

Non-U.S. branches[edit]

United Kingdom (Sonnenkrieg Division)[edit]

The Sonnenkrieg Division ("Sonnenkrieg" is German for "Sun war") is a neo-Nazi group that is the United Kingdom-branch of the Atomwaffen Division, linked to it by the BBC using e-mails and chat room discussions as well as similar names and propaganda. It surfaced in December 2018, when it was revealed that members of the group had written on the group's Discord server that Prince Harry was a "race traitor" and should be shot for having married Meghan Markle, who is of mixed race; that police officers should be raped and killed; and that white women who date non-whites should be hanged. The group is thought to have 10-15 members in the UK and Europe, and some suspected members are thought to have been involved in a previous neo-Nazi group, the System Resistance Network (one of the aliases of National Action), which was linked at various acts of racial violence in the UK. The BBC named the leaders as Andrew Dymock, 21, and Oskar Dunn-Koczorowski, 18.[58]

Police arrested three suspected members of the Sonnenkrieg Division in early December 2018 as part of an "ongoing investigation into extreme right-wing activity". MI5, the British domestic intelligence agency, took the lead in the government's monitoring of far-right terrorism.[59]

On 18 June 2019 Sonnenkrieg members Dunn-Koczorowski and Michal Szewczuk were jailed for terrorism offences. According to the prosecutor the men promoted "engaging in a "total attack" on the system", Dunn-Koczorowski having proclaimed "terror is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death" and were intent on action. Furthermore the group was influenced by James Mason who "may well represent the most violent, revolutionary and potentially terroristic expression of right-wing extremism current today". Dunn-Koczorowski was given 18-month detention for encouraging terrorism, and Szewczuk four year prison sentence for encouraging terrorism and possessing documents useful to a terrorist, such as bomb-making instructions.[60]

According to British anti-fascists Sonnenkrieg Division has been influenced by the Order of Nine Angles and is more extreme and potentially more violent than National Action. According to Hope not Hate's annual "State of Hate" report: "some members have also carried out some of these satanic fantasies and allegations of rape and imprisonment against their own members are circulating." Sonnenkrieg Division members had shared videos of one female supporter being tortured and scored with a knife by one of the group’s male members.[61] The private messages belonging to Sonnenkrieg Division acquired by the police included footage of the members of the group verbally abusing women and mutilating them, such as a picture of a naked girl with a swastika and runic symbols cut into her body.[62]

Germany[edit]

On June 1, 2018, in a German language and English language video titled AWD Deutschland: Die Messer werden schon gewetzet ("AWD Germany: The knives are already being sharpened"), the group announced the establishment of a cell/branch in Germany, promising a "long fight". Flyers of the group were spotted in Berlin targeted towards students.[63][64][65] In June of 2019, Atomwaffen propaganda was discovered in a Turkish neighborhood in Cologne on the site of a nail bomb attack, threatening more similar attacks.[66]

Canada[edit]

The group also has a presence in Canada via an affiliated organization called Northern Order that includes members of the Canadian Armed Forces. Members of the group have also been known to attend the Atomwaffen training camps in the United States.[67][68][69] One of the pseudonymous individuals found to be part of the group was a 21-year-old "Dark Foreigner" who creates propaganda for Atomwaffen.[70] The group celebrated the anniversary of the Quebec City mosque shooting by defacing Canadian mosques with neo-nazi slogans. Gunfire was also reported outside a defaced mosque in Ottawa.[71] [72]

Baltic states[edit]

In early 2019, a group calling itself the Feuerkrieg Division (German for "Fire War Division") modeled after Atomwaffen emerged in the Baltic states.[73] In mid 2019, the Feuerkrieg gained attention by issuing death threats to Belgian MEP Guy Verhofstadt and YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki.[74][75] and has previously praised the actions of Dylann Roof, Robert Bowers (perpetrator of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting), Timothy McVeigh and Brenton Harrison Tarrant (perpetrator of the Christchurch mosque shootings)[76] The group has also posted content on FascistForge, Twitter, WordPress, YouTube and Gab. The FKD has encouraged violence against government authorities, Jews, LGBTQ people, leftists and feminists, and calls for the burning of synagogues.[77] Propaganda videos by the groups show members building and detonating homemade explosive devices.[78]

See also[edit]

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