Francis Parker Yockey
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Francis Parker Yockey (1917-1960), alias Ulick Varange, was an American Nazi sympathizer best known for his post World War II activities in European extreme-right politics. His book Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics, dedicated to "the hero of World War II" (Adolf Hitler), contained ideas derived from Oswald Spengler and advocated the unification of Europe within an authoritarian or fascist form of government (also a position taken by Oswald Mosley in the post-war years).
Unlike most of the postwar far right, during the Cold War he advocated neo-fascists align with the Soviet Union rather than with conservatives in the United States, viewing the USSR as a pure white nation with a totalitarian political system that had been purged of Jewish influence by Josef Stalin. The United States, by contrast, he saw as racially impure and weak due to "culture distortion", his code word for Jewish influence he uses throughout the book.
He had little influence on the U.S. far right or neo-Nazis at the time, with the exception of Willis Carto, who was one of the last people to meet him before his suicide in 1960. He was more influential in Europe, where his ideas became part of the leftish-leaning wing of European neo-fascism, third positionism.