Order of Nine Angles: What is this obscure Nazi Satanist group?
By Daniel De Simone BBC News 23 June 2000
A US soldier has been accused of plotting an attack on his own unit by sending information to an obscure Nazi Satanist organisation called the Order of Nine Angles (ONA). But who are they?
Founded in the UK in the 1970s, the ONA is an increasing focus for law enforcement and has appeared as an influence in several recent UK terrorism prosecutions relating to the extreme right-wing.
The group lionises the Nazi era and dates its calendar from the birth of Adolf Hitler, but its supernatural belief system goes beyond anything normally associated with right-wing extremism.
What does the group believe in?
Its short-term goal is to undermine what it caricatures as a decadent Judeo-Christian society, with an emphasis placed on real-world acts, the aim being a new imperial civilization based a cruel mixture of Social Darwinism, Satanism, and Fascism.
Adherents are encouraged to secretly infiltrate organisations such as the military or Christian churches in order to destabilise them from within.
Those who progress through the ONA's hierarchical ranks are required to undertake various tasks, including forming their own small groups to prove their leadership abilities, with the result that a decentralised network of associated bodies exists throughout various countries.
There is a total rejection of ethics and some key texts even discuss ritual sacrifice, both symbolic and actual....
How influential is it?
The ONA has acted as an influence on several neo-Nazi extremist groups, including the US-based Atomwaffen Division - linked to five murders - and the Sonnenkrieg Division, which was banned as a terrorist organisation in the UK earlier this year.
Such groups reject attempts at gaining popular support for the extreme right - whether through demonstrations or campaigns - and are instead committed to an ideology of so-called accelerationism, which predicts societal collapse and racial warfare, seeking to speed the process up through acts of violence.
The ideology is promoted in several online spaces and that is where it has blended with the ideas promoted by ONA, giving the latter an increased influence on the furthest edges of the extreme right....
US soldier Ethan Melzer accused of planning attack on own unit
BBC News 23 June 2000
A US soldier has been charged with terrorism offences for planning a deadly ambush on his unit by sending information to a neo-Nazi group.
Ethan Melzer, 22, stands accused of sending sensitive details about his unit to the Order of Nine Angles.
The US Department of Justice calls it an "occult-based neo-Nazi and racially motivated violent extremist group".
He was allegedly planning for information to be passed to jihadists, who would then carry out an attack.
His plan was thwarted late last month by the FBI and the US army. He was arrested on 10 June.
Private Melzer, from Louisville, Kentucky, has been charged with conspiring and attempting to murder US nationals; conspiring and attempting to murder military service members; providing and attempting to provide material support to terrorists; and conspiring to murder and maim in a foreign country.
Private Melzer enlisted in the US Army in December 2018 and began his active service in June 2019.
In the fall of 2019, he was assigned to a US military facility in Europe, the indictment says. In April 2020, the army informed Private Melzer that he and his unit would be deployed to another foreign country, not named in the filing.
After Private Melzer was notified of this assignment, he used an encrypted messaging system to send notice to members of the Order of Nine Angles, including his unit's locations, movements and security plans. The information was shared "for the purpose of facilitating an attack on the unit", the indictment says....
What is the Order of Nine Angles?
Also known as the ONA, or O9A, the Order is an occult group founded in the UK, with roots dating back to the 1960s
It describes itself as Satanic and its writings are widely shared in Neo-Nazi communities
The Order calls for the overthrow of the West's Judeo-Christian order, and it encourages members to isolate themselves from society, commit crimes and embrace political extremism
New followers must spend at least six months in "insight roles," a practice of infiltrating and subverting other religious groups or organisations like the police and army
The group maintains a decentralised structure, so it is hard to estimate the true size and influence. But its ideology is having a resurgence in Europe and the US, partly due to the online proliferation of its literature.
Durham teen neo-Nazi became 'living dead'
By Daniel De Simone BBC News 22 November 2019
The youngest person to be convicted of planning a terrorist attack in the UK identified potential targets in his hometown, began drafting a "guerrilla warfare" manual and tried to obtain a chemical used in terrorist bombings. But the case also focused on the radicalisation process itself, hearing the 16-year-old's preparations for an attack involved a deliberate effort to dehumanise himself and become like the "living dead"....
The trial heard much about his ideology: an amalgam of neo-Nazism, Satanism and misanthropy, allied to the belief that a collapse of civilisation should be "accelerated" through acts of violence and criminality....
Central influences include the American neo-Nazi James Mason, who has been convicted of indecent images offences involving a child, and several individuals associated with the occult organisation Order of Nine Angles - described by the prosecution as the "most prominent and recognisable link between Satanism and the extreme right".
The result is a culture in which deviancy and criminality are encouraged - sexual violence and paedophilia are constant themes - with anything justified as long as it is thought to destabilise society and defy what is characterised as slavish morality....
According to police, eight terrorist plots inspired by right-wing ideologies have been stopped since March 2017. They say there is a "spectrum" of such ideologies that have the potential to generate violence, with the variant finally adopted by the Durham defendant regarded as perhaps the most extreme of all.
He is now the fourth teenager convicted of terrorism offences in the UK over the past year in which the same set of influences - accelerationism and Satanism - have been central....
U.S. Soldier Indicted for Plotting Attack on His Own Unit With Satanic Neo-Nazi Group
If convicted, Ethan Melzer, 22 — who allegedly leaked information to far-right group Order of the Nine Angles — could face life in prison for conspiring to murder U.S. nationals June 23, 2020 by EJ Dickson
A U.S. Army private is accused of planning a violent attack on his own unit with the Order of the Nine Angles — a neo-Nazi satanic group based in the U.K., sometimes called the O9A or ONA — according to a grand-jury indictment unsealed Monday.
Ethan Melzer, a 22-year-old soldier from Louisville, Kentucky, is charged with conspiring and attempting to murder U.S. nationals, conspiring and attempting to murder military service members, providing and attempting to provide material support to terrorists, and conspiring to murder and maim in a foreign country, per a press release from the U.S. Justice Department.
According to the indictment, Melzer enlisted with the Army in 2018 and deployed with his unit in October 2019, consuming propaganda from extremist groups like O9A and ISIS during this time. On May 14th, Melzer sent text messages on an O9A thread on Telegram saying he believed his “military training, survival, [and] links to other groups” could be an asset to the group. On May 17th, the indictment says, he relayed information about his unit’s deployment to an alleged member of Al Qaeda....
The ONA is described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an “enigmatic satanic occult group whose most extreme adherents promote human sacrifice, Nazism and fascism and Aryan myths, and have been reported to praise Adolf Hitler and Osama bin Laden.” A British anti-racist group called for the ONA to be banned last year after a 16-year-old boy who cited it as an influence was arrested for plotting a terrorist attack.
Though ONA is based in the U.K., it has a presence in the U.S. and ties to Atomwaffen, another far-right extremist group that saw an increase in members after the deadly 2017 Charlottesville rally. ONA literature specifically encourages members (called Noctulians) to infiltrate mainstream organizations for six months, such as a police force, the military, or a far-right political organization.
Atomwaffen Division
Atomwaffen Division (AWD) is a terroristic national socialist organization that formed out of Iron March, an influential fascist forum that went offline in September 2017....
IM, which went offline in September of 2017, was an intimate, dedicated network of just over 1,600 users who collectively posted more than 150,000 messages in six years. Andrew Auernheimer, a notorious neo-Nazi hacker and web administrator for the Daily Stormer, recently eulogized the site, praising it for its “strict inner culture,” influential aesthetics and the fascist organizations that it spawned in both the United States and Europe.
It is from this forum that Atomwaffen Division (AWD) — a cadre of mostly younger men, some with military experience, hell-bent on resuscitating leaderless cell-oriented terrorism — was born.
....Its author, Temple ov Blood, is said to be a subsect of the Order of Nine Angles, an enigmatic Satanic occult group whose most extreme adherents promote human sacrifice, Nazism and Fascism and Aryan myths, and have been reported to praise Adolf Hitler and Osama bin Laden.
Addressing the Satanic, Mystical Aspect of Nazism
Oded Heilbronner 10.02.2014 10.04.2018
Satanic cults popular among SS officers demonstrate the importance of mystic faith in the worldview of the Nazi elite. Mainstream historians must pay more attention.
....Now many researchers have come to recognize the fact that we don’t have enough tools to explain everything that happened between 1933 and 1945, as Tel Aviv University historian Shulamit Volkov wrote a number of years ago. One example of this is the popularity of satanic cults among SS officers.
....The best legal minds, doctors and scientists volunteered for the SS and became officers. The inner circle of SS head Heinrich Himmler included jurists and doctors who led the campaigns of destruction or were commanders of concentration and death camps.
Between 1936 and 1941, some of these people met in Wewelsburg Castle in northwestern Germany once a year, under Himmler's command, to take part in satanic rituals and read cultish texts of Germanic tribes. With Himmler as King Arthur and 12 SS officers as the 12 knights, these Nazi leaders gathered annually in knights' gear at a round table and tried to channel the pagan heroes of German legend....
A labor camp was built in the area, where thousands of slave workers expanded the castle so it could be a gathering place for the SS. On the eve of Germany's June 1941 invasion of Russia, SS leaders held their final meeting in the castle. After explaining the goal of the invasion and the role of SS death squads in liquidating the Jewish and Slavic population, Himmler and his men stood in the Holy Grail room to receive inspiration ahead of what they saw as the greatest moment in German history.
Himmler ordered parts of the castle destroyed in 1945. It now serves as a history museum of the SS and a meeting place for neo-Nazis, neo-folk bands, white supremacist groups and satanic, mystic and spiritualist groups....
Children as young as 13 joining Satanic Nazi groups, report warns
Many of the new groups in Britain have been linked to the banned National Action
by Hayley Dixon 18 February 2019
Children as young as 13 are joining Nazi groups which are increasingly turning towards Satanism, a new report warns.
Research has found a “disturbing” trend among the far right which is “getting more extreme and younger”, with those with dangerous ideologies finding each other online.
Matthew Collins, a researcher at counter extremism group Hope Not Hate, which produced the report, said that the emerging groups are made up of “clever, mostly perverse young men” who are meeting in hidden areas of the internet and encouraging each other to become more extreme.
He said: “As a result we are seeing more and more about Satanism and white jihad. It is almost like Hitler isn’t extreme enough for them anymore.
“They are not like the traditional far right groups - they are more articulate, they are certainly more sophisticated and they are finding each other on gaming websites and things like that.”
The numbers joining these groups are in the hundreds, but it is feared that those who are radicalised online will go on to commit offences offline.
The Security Services warned of a growing threat from the far-right in the wake of the Finsbury Park mosque attack and the murder of MP Jo Cox.
The State of Hate 2019 report found that some of the most extreme groups in Britain today are influenced by the “Order of Nine Angles (O9A), unquestionably the world’s most extreme Nazi Satanist group”.
It says that the “philosophy is shaping the recently formed Sonnenkrieg Division, possibly the most extreme nazi group we have seen in decades”.
The O9A group, which has been running since the 1960s and holds occult rituals led by a Priest and Priestess, advocates destroying society from within and “culling” people.
Nick Lowles, founder of Hope Not Hate, writes in the report: “In the internet age, as extremists from around the world congregate together online, seeking out the “edgiest” positions and ideas, and younger people are drawn in, the O9A is arguably becoming more visible and influential than ever.”
The Sonnenkrieg Division hit the headlines in December last year after members called online for Prince Harry to be shot as a “race traitor” for marrying Meghan Markle. Three alleged members have been arrested.
Many of the emerging groups have links to National Action, the banned extremist group which was disbanded last year when 13 members were convicted using anti-terror legislation, the report found.....
