![]() ![]() 30, 1996, Tanton wrote to Fred Stanback, a longtime funder of Tanton's anti-immigration U.S. Maxwell apparently gave Tanton much to hope for. But then he was put in touch with Maxwell by Peter Brimelow, a white nationalist, naturalized British immigrant and nativist who today runs the racist website. Tanton had earlier lobbied a number of filmmakers to undertake the project with no luck, according to Tanton papers held at the University of Michigan's Bentley Historical Library. ![]() Tanton had republished an English-language version in 1995, celebrating Raspail as a hero who was "20 years ahead of his time." The book, written in 1973 by Frenchman Jean Raspail, depicts an invasion of France by immigrants from India who are painted as sexually voracious savages who destroy the country and ravish its white women. ![]() ![]() Right-wing filmmaker Ronald Maxwell, who made the pro-southern Civil War epics "Gettysburg" and "Gods and Generals," once seriously considered bringing a wildly racist anti-immigrant novel to the big screen.Īccording to a 1996 memo written by racist nativist leader John Tanton, Maxwell "is solidly in our camp" and "is currently looking over The Camp of the Saints" with an eye to making it into a movie. ![]()
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