Since 2014, they have been listed as an active neo-Nazi group in annual reports conducted by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
[2] After serving a seven-year prison sentence for federal weapons charges, ex-Ku Klux Klan member Dennis Michael McGiffen formed the Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club (SSMC) in 2010 with the intention of the group to act as the militant wing of the North American-based Aryan Nations neo-Nazi organization.
[4] The club has chapters in Illinois, Oklahoma, Missouri, Wisconsin, Florida, Pennsylvania, Alabama, Ohio and Tennessee as well as Australia, Sweden, Ukraine, Ireland, Germany, France, South Africa, the United Kingdom (England) and New Zealand.
[3] On its official website, the club claims that forced integration is "deliberate and malicious genocide, particularly for a people like the white race, who are now a small minority in the world."
[8] Like many other white supremacist and racist skinhead groups, the Aryan Nations Sadistic Souls MC uses various Wehrmacht insignia, including the Totenkopf, the Reichsadler, the doppelte Siegrune and the Nationalflagge.