Object ID
2019.2.261
Object Name
Letter
Date
6-29-1955
Files
Download Full Text (984 KB)
Description
Document with red banner across top with “FROM THE DESK OF GERALD L.K. SMITH” in white print.
Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:
Smith was an antisemitic, white supremacist clergyman and founder of the Christian Nationalist Crusade. During World War II, Smith founded the America First Party, which subsumed his pro-Nazi agenda.
In this letter to the fanatical British anti-Semite Arnold Leese, written in 1955, he refers to the Jewish “pressure…on me” to call out “the distribution of the Protocols [of the Elders of Zion] as a fraudulent operation.” Smith was quite taken with the Protocols, which he claimed (in his autobiography) had a formative influence on his own antisemitic worldview, despite its being a thoroughgoing fabrication. Of course, Smith states that he has an “abundance of evidence” to make his case for the Protocols’ authenticity, but asks Leese to send him any research he may have to bolster it nonetheless. Not wishing embarrassment, he prefers that Leese make no reference to this request in his publications.
Dimensions
11 x 8 1/4"
Keywords
Gerald L.K. Smith, Arnold Leese, Protocols of the Elders of Zion, America First Party, American Anti-Semitism
Subcollection
Anti
Recommended Citation
"Letter from Gerald L.K. Smith, Director of the Christian Nationalist Crusade, to Arnold Leese" (1955). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2019.2.261.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/1588
Rights Statement
