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Old February 16th, 2006 #1
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Default Hot: Erich Gliebe Makes Cover of SCENE

One of them gotta-read-to-believe local yokel article about NA's Gliebe, excerpt below and the rest at site, including pictures.

http://www.clevescene.com/Issues/2006-02-15/news/feature.html

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Fall of the Fourth Reich

Cleveland’s Aryan Barbarian oversees the collapse of a neo-Nazi powerhouse.

By Lisa Rab

Article Published Feb 15, 2006


After checking to make sure that lunch is on someone else's dime, Erich and Erika Gliebe decide to go big. Popcorn shrimp is followed by meatloaf, salad, and blackened swordfish.

To the waitress at the Boneyard Beer Farm in Broadview Heights, they must look like the average bickering suburban couple. It's hard to believe this is a feared neo-Nazi leader and his ex-Playboy-model wife.

Erich is tall, gangly, and missing a front tooth. A few dozen pounds ago, he might have been imposing. Internet pictures show a meatier face with a vaguely sinister glint. But today the bones in his face jut at unflattering angles -- nose too big, chin too pointy -- and his shrunken arms and legs are swallowed by his clothes.

Erika's a dyed blonde with heavy eyeliner and overzealous lipstick. Her role today is that of the pretty, plump, five-months-pregnant housewife, as she explains how they're attending parenting classes.

Erich drones on in a fumbling, rehearsed chatter, clearly uncomfortable around a Jewish reporter. Until 10 months ago, he was chairman of the National Alliance, one of the nation's premier white-power groups -- the one Timothy McVeigh called before the Oklahoma City bombing. But under Gliebe's leadership the organization fell apart. He's been accused of wasting money, killing off membership rolls, and soiling white purity by marrying a stripper. Since he resigned last spring, the internal strife has continued to rage over the internet in the latest form of Nazi warfare: insulting each other's wives on competing websites.
If it all seems unbefitting a master race, Gliebe insists nonetheless that the Alliance is stronger than ever. Yet the fallen neo-Nazi king looks suspiciously like a 42-year-old having a midlife crisis, desperate to salvage the one job that gave his life meaning.


The path to the throne began in Parma, where Gliebe was raised by German immigrants. He tells followers that his father fought for the Germans on the Eastern Front during World War II and was shot in the face by a Red Army officer.

In radio interviews, he has said that his parents instilled in him the values of "National Socialism . . . I was taught about honor, self-discipline, and racial pride at a very early age. And also, very importantly, I learned about the Jewish problem at a very young age."
He remembers himself as a child, staring at the scar on his father's face, trying "to imagine what it would be like to fight to the death for something I believed in."

The Parma of Gliebe's childhood was all-white, but kids at school still looked at him funny when he sounded off about Jews.

After graduating high school in 1981, Gliebe became a boxer. His former coach at the Parma Boxing Club describes him as an amateur with a "very good right hand," despite his unimposing size. "He was thinner then. But he hit real good," says Don Myers.

Gliebe says that he eventually went pro as a middleweight in West Virginia, adopting the "Aryan Barbarian" nickname because he wanted an ethnic title. One day, when he became a world champion, he would carry the mantle of his race. He claims he went undefeated in eight pro fights, but records are so scant, it's impossible to verify his claims.

Gliebe quit boxing in 1990, when he joined the National Alliance. Founder William Pierce was fighting to create a white homeland and end what he saw as Jewish control of the United States. He would become Gliebe's role model and father figure.

Pierce, a former physics professor, founded the Alliance in the 1970s, after heading the American Nazi Party and campaigning for George Wallace. His novel about race war, The Turner Diaries, became both bible and blueprint for the Aryan revolution. But recruitment slumped after a white-power gang, modeled after a group in The Turner Diaries, went on a rampage across the West, stealing millions from armored cars and murdering a Jewish radio host in Denver. The gang fell apart after its leader was killed in a firefight with the FBI.

By the time Gliebe joined the Alliance, Pierce was alone at the group's compound in Hillsboro, West Virginia. The men bonded quickly. Gliebe, then a toolmaker, gained a reputation as the Alliance's top recruiter, specializing in enrolling elderly members who would leave money to Pierce when they died. For a while, his Cleveland chapter was the only local unit the Alliance had....
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