WHO'S WHO IN THE DISSIDENT RIGHT: "FED-NAZI SKINHEAD" CHRISTOPHER POLHAUS

by Colin Liddell

Recently there has been some concern in the Dissident Right about "Fed"-type Neo-Nazis with extremely bad optics popping up. The most obvious case was at a protest against a drag queen story hour event in Ohio.

As reported by the LGBTQ publication "The Advocate":

Hundreds of armed far-right extremists, including “Sieg Heil” chanting neo-Nazis, joined by right-wing Christian groups, converged on a park in Ohio where parents and children had gathered to enjoy a drag queen story event Saturday. The extremists clashed with rainbow umbrella-wielding supporters who had shown up to protect the event.

At Wadsworth Memorial Park outside Akron, the Rock-n-Roll Humanist Drag Queen Story Hour ended in chaos as tensions raged between activists and protesters.

A number of far-right extremist and religious groups, including the Proud Boys, Patriot Front, III Percenters, “White Lives Matter of Ohio,” Blood Tribe (a neo-Nazi movement led by former Marine Chris Pohlhaus, who was armed), and unaffiliated conservatives, attended the event to disrupt it.

The stand-out personality at this event was the tattooed skinhead, named above as Chris Pohlhaus, who led chants of "Sieg Heil" and waved a swastika flag around. 

This led people like Nick Fuentes, who probably agrees with the guy on a lot of stuff, to complain on Telegram about the bad "Fed" optics: 

But who actually is Pohlhaus? Is he a glow-in-the-dark" or might he actually just be a sincere Neo-Nazi idiot trying to get in touch with his "Germanic heritage"?

Well, it turns out the guy was in the Marines for four years (2005-09). He claims he left after Obama was elected President:

However, a former military background is often considered a red flag for someone being a fed.

After the Marines, he went on to do a four-year (2009-2013) Bachelor of Science in video game production at Collins College (presumably the one in Maine, where he now appears to live).

His CV also includes a short stint (Nov 2013-Jan 2014) at Digital Dreamforge, a software company, followed by jobs at Ritual Addictions Tattoo and International Cruise and Excursions Inc. Not really sure if these are real companies or Fed fronts.
 


Going under the name "The Hammer," he has a Telegram channel with around 8000 followers where he frequently Fed posts Neo-Nazi garbage mixed in with calls to create an ethnostate in Maine and prepare for a future race war. 

He also has links to J6: A report by Bellingcat in 2021 mentioned his connection to Riley June Williams, 22, the woman suspected of stealing Democratic House Leader Nancy Pelosi’s laptop during the storming of the Capitol. Williams later attempted to sell the laptop to Russian intelligence:

According to Bellingcat, Williams mentioned Pohlhaus in one of her videos:

She dances to techno music for several seconds, while a voice narrates the video: “Hammer was right all along. There is no political solution. All that is left is acceleration. Heil Hitler.”

At this point in the video the bass in the music drops and the woman extends her arm in a Sieg Heil salute. A negative color filter washes over the scene and the woman’s eyes glow.