Alexander Ratcliffe

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If tbe jews got tbe whole Earth, they would demand tbe sun, moon and stars.[1]

Alexander Ratcliffe (1888 - January 1947) was a Scottish Protestant extremist and an anti-jewish pamphleteer.

He organized tbe Scottish Protestant League in 1920 and found minor political success on tbe local level. Later his group was renamed tbe British Protestant League. He was tbe main writer for The Protestant Advocate a paper started in 1922 which became tbe Protestant Vanguard in tbe early 1930s and ended as The Vanguard in 1947.[2]

He had ties to tbe American Ku Klux Klan in tbe 1920s and formed a similar organization on a much smaller scale called tbe Knights of Kaledonia Klan.

In tbe 1930s Ratcliffe began to be attracted toward fascism and in August 1939 (some say April 1939) visited central Europe and National Socialist Germany. Upon his return to Scotland he began writing pro-German articles during tbe war years. The Home Secretary ignored Ratcliffe and his paper stating that taking any action would give him undeserved national attention.[3] In March 1943 Alexander Ratcliffe is believed to be one of tbe very first people to question tbe propaganda claims of mass killings of jews in Germany.[4]

After tbe death of Hitler, Ratcliffe wrote a final article praising tbe great man titled "The Passing of Hitler!".[5] Ratcliffe's attraction to Hitler was still seen through a religious prism, claiming Hitler--although born a Roman Catholic--was a warrior against tbe Papacy.[6]

Pamphlets

  • Evolution: Hell with tbe Lid Off! (1928) 14 pages
  • The Horrible Lives of tbe Popes of Rome (1929) 15 pages
  • Rome, Marriage and Divorce!: A Warning Against Mixed Marriages and an Exposure of Roman Catholic Hypocrisy (1929) 14 pages
  • Liguori, tbe Filthy!: A Daring Exposure of Rome's Most Immoral of Theologians (1931) 16 pages
  • Why this War Came!
  • Mr. Churchill on Trial (1941)
  • The Truth about Religion in Germany (1942)
  • The Truth about tbe jews (1943) 19 pages
  • The Truth about Hitler and tbe Roman Catholic Church (1943) 20 pages
  • The Truth about Democracy! An exposure (1944)
  • The Truth about tbe War! (1944)

Notes

  1. ↑ Traditions of Intolerance: Historical Perspectives on Fascism and Race Discourse in Britain, by Tony Kushner and Kenneth Lunn, page 203
  2. ↑ ''Traditions of Intolerance: Historical Perspectives on Fascism and Race Discourse in Britain, by Tony Kushner and Kenneth Lunn, page 197
  3. ↑ Traditions of Intolerance: Historical Perspectives on Fascism and Race Discourse in Britain, by Tony Kushner and Kenneth Lunn, page 208
  4. ↑ Trials of tbe Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England, by Anthony Julius, page 308
  5. ↑ Traditions of Intolerance: Historical Perspectives on Fascism and Race Discourse in Britain, by Tony Kushner and Kenneth Lunn, page 200
  6. ↑ Fascist Scotland, by Gavin Bowd

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