Ben Klassen

Bernhardt "Ben" Klassen was a politician, inventor, certified genius, nutritionist, and religious leader. He founded the Church of the Creator with the publication of his book Nature's Eternal Religion in 1973. Klassen was openly pro-white, holocaust skeptic and was active within the pro-white movement. At one point, Klassen was a Republican Florida state legislator, as well as a supporter of George Wallace's Presidential campaign. In addition to his religious and political work, Klassen was an electrical engineer and he was also the inventor of the electric can-opener. Klassen held unorthodox views about dieting and health. He was a natural hygienist who opposed the germ theory of disease as well as conventional medicine and promoted a fruitarian, raw food diet.