Hans Schmidt (24 April 1927 – 30 May 2010) was a German-born naturalized American citizen, member of the Waffen-SS during World War II, and founder of the German-American National Political Action Committee (GANPAC).
Schmidt was arrested in Germany on hate charges in 1995, but avoided standing trial by returning to the USA while released on bail.
During Nazi rule, he was a member of the Hitler Youth, and, by his own account, joined the Waffen-SS in 1943 at the age of 16,[2] and served as a corporal in the SS Division Leibstandarte.
[12] Schmidt also founded the German-American Information and Education Association (GIEA), which is presided over by E. Stanley Rittenhouse, a known anti-Semite,[1] who "served as chief legislative representative for the Liberty Lobby,[13] a far right organization founded by Willis Carto, whom the Anti-Defamation League calls "perhaps the most influential professional anti-Semite in the United States".
[4] Schmidt came to regard the German government as treasonous and controlled by "Oberjuden" ("top Jews"),[8] and claimed the U.S. embassy provided false information to Germany to persecute him.
Schmidt continued anti-Semitic campaigns, first by calling for a repeal of the Kosher tax (specifically addressing the Adolph Coors Brewing Co.),[19] and later by writing a book entitled End Times/End Games (1999) where he listed all the ways "Aryans" were more accomplished than Jews and begged all Jews to voluntarily leave white-majority countries on their own accord.