Francis Parker Yockey
Francis Parker Yockey (September 18, 1917 – June 17, 1960) was an American fascist and pan-Europeanist ideologue.[1][2] A lawyer, he is known for his neo-Spenglerian book Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics, published in 1948 under the pen name Ulick Varange, which called for a neo-Nazi European empire.[3][4][2][5]
Francis Parker Yockey
September 18, 1917
June 17, 1960 (aged 42)
Ulick Varange
Author, attorney
Yockey supported far-right causes around the world and remains an influence of white nationalist and neo-fascist movements.[6][7] Yockey was an antisemite, revered German Nazism, and was an early Holocaust denier.[4] In the 1930s he contacted or worked with the Nazi-aligned Silver Shirts and the German-American Bund.[8] He served in the U.S. Army in 1942–43, and went AWOL to help Nazi spies.[9][4] After
legal appointments in Detroit in 1944–45, he worked for eleven months on the War Crimes tribunal in Germany before he either resigned or was fired for siding with the Nazis.[9][8] In London, he worked for the British fascist Oswald Mosley's Union Movement, and after falling out with Mosley, founded the breakaway European Liberation Front in 1949, leading it until it fizzled around 1954.[10][11][12]
During the Cold War, Yockey reportedly worked with Soviet bloc intelligence, and argued for a tactical far-right alliance with the Soviets against what he saw as Jewish-American hegemony.[6][13][14] He also briefly wrote anti-Jewish propaganda in Egypt,[15] where he met its president Gamal Abdel Nasser.[16] Yockey remained influential in fascist circles until his suicide in FBI custody in 1960.[17] Yockey's last visitor in prison was Willis Carto, who became the leading advocate and publisher of his writings.[18]
Occult and philosophy interests[edit]
Coogan writes that "Yockey's occult interests had political ramifications" as he "clearly saw himself as part of an underground elite, a secret new race of god-men".[57] Yockey was an owner of documents relating to Theosophy, according to the FBI.[57] At the time of his suicide, he had copies of books and articles written by Baltasar Gracián, Otto Weininger, H. G. Wells, and George B. Leonard.[58]
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