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White Aryan Resistance (WAR) is a white supremacist and neo-Nazi organization in the United States which was founded and formerly led by former Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon Tom Metzger. It was based in Warsaw, Indiana, and it was also incorporated as a business. In 1993, the group expanded into Canada. [2]
Metzger was born and raised in Indiana. [5] He served in the U.S. Army from 1961 until 1964 when he moved to Southern California to work in the electronics industry. [5] For a short time, he was a member of the right-wing group the John Birch Society, and attended anti-communist luncheon meetings sponsored by the Douglas Aircraft Corporation. [5]
Bill Riccio (aka William E. Davidson) is a leader in the white power skinhead movement in the United States who gained public notoriety for his appearance in the 1993 documentary Skinheads: Soldiers of the Race War. He has been convicted numerous times on illegal weapon possession charges, the most recent of which was in 1992.
Robert Jay Mathews (January 16, 1953 – December 8, 1984) was an American neo-Nazi terrorist and the leader of The Order, an American white supremacist militant group. [1] [2] He was burned alive during a shootout with approximately 75 federal law enforcement agents who surrounded his house on Whidbey Island, near Freeland, Washington.
He became active within the National Alliance, a white nationalist, antisemitic and white supremacist political organization in the United States. [3] As leader of the Cleveland National Alliance Local Unit, he was hired by William Pierce to run the White-power music label Resistance Records after the National Alliance bought full ownership of ...
Wyatt C. Kaldenberg (born 1957) is an American white supremacist and a supporter of Tom Metzger's Neo-Nazi White Aryan Resistance (WAR) organization. He is also an Odinist (a type of Germanic neopaganism ), and an author of several books.
Klas Henrik Pontus Lund (born 14 February 1968) is a Swedish National-Socialist and since 2019 the leader of the combat organisation Nordic Strength. [1]Lund was previously a founder of White Aryan Resistance (VAM) in 1990, and leader of the Swedish Resistance Movement (SMR) from 1997, now part of the wider movement known as the Nordic Resistance Movement (NMR).
He moved to Pennsylvania, and was later arrested for illegally possessing firearms as a convicted felon and planning to distribute $100,000 (~$265,869 in 2024) in counterfeit U.S. currency to white supremacists who were attending the 1988 Aryan World Congress.