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Witness History: The Turner Diaries - America's manual of hatred

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The Turner Diaries - America's manual of hatred

BBC World Service - Witness History, The Turner Diaries - America's manual of hatred

The white supremacist novel by William Pierce which has been blamed for inciting violence

The violent white supremacist novel by William Pierce which was banned by Amazon in January 2021

Following the assault on the US Capitol earlier this month, Amazon banned The Turner Diaries, a racist novel blamed for inciting American neo-Nazis to violence. The book calls for a race war and a coup against the institutions of US democracy. It was the favourite reading of Timothy McVeigh, the white terrorist who blew up a federal government building in Oklahoma City in 1995, killing 168 people.

The Turner Diaries was published in 1978 by a former physics professor and neo-Nazi called William Luther Pierce. Simon Watts has been hearing the memories of his son, Kelvin Pierce. They were recorded as part of the BBC series on the American far-right, Two Minutes Past Nine.

PHOTO: Shawn Walker, a former leader of William Pierce's neo-Nazi organisation, the National Alliance, posing with a copy of the Turner Diaries (Getty Images)

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