David Lane (white supremacist)
| David Lane | |
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| Born |
David Eden Lane November 2, 1938 Woden, Iowa, U.S. |
| Died | May 28, 2007 (aged 68) FCC Terre Haute Terre Haute, Indiana, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Epileptic seizure |
| Other names | Wodensson |
| Occupation | Real estate broker |
| Known for | White supremacism, Wotanism, the White genocide conspiracy theory and membership in The Order |
| Spouse(s) | Mary Lou Katja Maddox (m. 1994–2007) |
| David Lane | |
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| Known for | Participant in the homicide of Alan Berg |
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| Criminal penalty |
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| Criminal status | Died in prison |
| Allegiance | The Order |
| Motive | White nationalism, extermination of Jews |
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David Eden Lane (November 2, 1938 – May 28, 2007) was an American white supremacist leader and convicted felon. A member of The Order, he was convicted and sentenced to 190 years in prison for racketeering, conspiracy, and for violating the civil rights of Alan Berg, a Jewish radio talk show host, who was murdered on June 18, 1984. He died while incarcerated in the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Lane coined the best-known slogan of the U.S. white supremacist movement, the Fourteen Words. He has been described by the SPLC as "one of the most important ideologues of contemporary white supremacy."
Lane was born as the third of four siblings in Woden, Iowa; he had a brother and two sisters. His father was an alcoholic migrant worker who was physically abusive towards his wife and children. Lane would later claim that his father forced his mother to engage in prostitution so he could obtain "booze money", and that his older brother was rendered with permanent deafness as a result of a "beating gone awry". When Lane was four years old, his father abandoned his family. In 1944, his older brother was arrested after searching for food in a neighbor's trash bins, and he and his sisters were placed in foster care. Lane was soon adopted by a traveling Lutheran minister, which resulted in Lane being separated from his two sisters. Lane described his adoptive father as a "doctrinaire fundamentalist from the old school". Bored with endless hours of church services, Lane rejected Christianity, and originally shared relatively pagan beliefs. Lane claimed that he first noticed the beauty of the Caucasian race after befriending a blonde-haired girl in first grade to whom he was attracted. Lane has also stated that while he reenacted battles with his foster brother as a child, he would portray a Nazi stormtrooper while his brother portrayed an American soldier.
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