| LC control no. | n 50032575 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Butler, Eric D. |
| Variant(s) | Butler, Eric (Eric D.) Butler, Eric Dudley |
| See also | Founded corporate body of person: Australian League of Rights |
| Associated country | Australia |
| Associated place | Zimbabwe |
| Birth date | 1916-05-07 |
| Death date | 2006-06-07 |
| Place of birth | Benalla (Vic.) |
| Place of death | Victoria |
| Field of activity | Holocaust denial Propaganda, Anti-communist |
| Found in | His The war behind the war ... 1941? Salient, Victoria University Student Newspaper, volume 33, no. 6, May 6, 1970, viewed online November 17, 2018 (Etic D. Butler; national director of the Australian League of Rights; a familiar figure at Aid Rhodesia and other right wing meetings in New Zealand; he wrote The International Jew [1947], accusing Jews of being responsible for the First World War, the Bolshevik Revolution, the Depression, and the rise of Hitler, and The Great Lie, claiming that the murder of 6 millions Jews was a Jewish invention; during the war his activities were investigated by the Australian government; his League of Rights has continued to disseminate claims of a Communist conspiracy) Wikipedia, November 17, 2018 (Erik Butler; Eric Dudley Butler; 7 May 1916-7 June 2006; Australian political activist and journalist, founder of the Australian League of Rights; born in Benalla, Victoria, lived most of his life near Melbourne; he retired as League director in 1992; died in Victoria) |
| Associated language | eng |
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