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'''George W. Christians''' [http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2012/03/10/archives/post-perspective/star-spangled-fascists.html/attachment/2-christians photo] (August 5, 1888 - June 1983)<ref>[http://sortedbyname.com/pages/c106374.html Social Security Death Master File]</ref> was commander-in-chief of the [[Chattanooga]] based [[Crusader White Shirts]]. Originally from New York he was trained as an engineer at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute.<ref>[http://archive.jta.org/article/1934/07/09/2816100/this-fascist-racket "This Fascist Racket" JTA July 9, 1934]</ref> Christians was the owner of American Asphalt Grouting Company. He was an inventor and held several patents.<ref>[https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=pts&hl=en&q=ininventor:%22George+W+Christians%22 Google Search patents]</ref>

Christians lost his personal wealth in the [[1929 crash|stock market crash]] and the failure of his engineering business. He wrote a manuscript called ''The Depression'' which he believed contained solutions to the nation's economic problems. He had Congressman [[Louis T. McFadden]] of Pennsylvania to propose legislation based upon his economic ideas in the form of H.R. 4747 to the 72nd Congress.<ref>[http://archive.jta.org/article/1934/07/10/2816144/this-fascist-racket "This Fascist Racket" JTA July 10, 1934]</ref>
 
In December 1933 he sought and was granted an interview with [[President Roosevelt]] at his vacation retreat at Warm Springs, Georgia. The President listened to Christians' economic ideas and said he would give it his consideration.  Roosevelt replied  "Your plan is only one of many to restore the economics of this country. I intend to study them all."<ref>[http://archive.jta.org/article/1934/07/09/2816100/this-fascist-racket "This Fascist Racket" JTA July 9, 1934]</ref>

Early on Christians and his White Shirts tried to make alliance with the Jews but abandoned that prospect.<ref>[http://archive.jta.org/article/1934/07/12/2816282/this-fascist-racket "This Fascist Racket" JTA July 12, 1934]</ref>
In 1936 and 1937 he worked with [[Lois de Lafayette Washburn]]--a noted Jew hater--in forming the [[Crusaders for Economic Liberty]] organization in [[Chicago]].<ref>''Women of the Far Right: the Mothers' Movement and World War II, by Glen Jeansonne, page 154</ref>

In March 1942 he was arrested in Chattanooga, Tennessee on sedition charges consisting of distributing propaganda and urging the insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, or refusal of duty by members of the armed forces.<ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,766465-1,00.html JUSTICE: Milquetoast Gets Muscles, ''Time'', April 13, 1942.]</ref> <ref>[http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/doc/820811062.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Mar%2028,%201942&author=&pub=Daily%20Boston%20Globe%20(1928-1960)&edition=&startpage=&desc=U.%20S.%20Charges%20Two%20Hurt%20Army%20Morale;%20Arrests%20Ordered "U. S. Charges Two Hurt Army Morale; Arrests Ordered", ''Boston Globe'', Mar 28, 1942]</ref> He was given a five year sentence and a $5,000 fine. 

Christians held both anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic views. He circulated the ''[[Protocols]]'' and a political tract which read, “Kick the Roman Catholic Political Corruption out of Our Halls of Government.”<ref>[http://archive.jta.org/article/1934/07/18/2816623/this-fascist-racket "This Fascist Racket" JTA July 18, 1934]</ref>
<ref>''Under Cover'', p. 150, by John Roy Carlson, (1943)</ref>

He published the ''[[National American Bulletin]]''. 

==Works==
* ''The Depression'' (unpublished manuscript)

==See also==
* [[C. F. Fulliam]]

==Notes==
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==External link==
* [http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2011/01/george-w-christians-american-fascist.html George W. Christians, American fascist] 

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