Archive/File: fascism tonningen.florrie Last-modified: 1993/05/04 ROST VAN TONNINGEN, FLORRIE Florrie Rost van Tonningen is the widow of notorious Dutch Nazi collaborator, Meinoud Rost van Tonningen. A leader of Holland's Nazi party and personal favorite of Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler (the former attended the van Tonningen wedding), Meinoud R.v. Tonningen was handpicked to run Holland's national bank during the German occupation. He committed suicide in 1945, before he could face trial as a traitor to his homeland. Now in her late seventies, Florrie Rost van Tonningen remains a committed Nazi and has in fact been twice convicted of inciting racial hatred by distributing antisemitic/Holocaust denial literature. Known as the "Black Widow," Florrie R.v.Tonningen caused an outcry in 1986 when it was discovered that she was using part of her state pension to finance a neo-Nazi party in the Netherlands. She has been a guest lecturer at conventions of the Institute for Historical Review and claims a close frienship with its founder, Willis Carto (see separate entry). Ron Furey and Richard Eaton drove to Florrie R. v. Tonningen's home in the Netherlands, accompanied by Roy Godenau (see separate entry). Rost van Tonningen, a major icon of the neo-Nazi movement, expressed strong support for Wolfgang Juchem (see separate entry) as Germany's next fuehrer, admitted a role in the attempted overthrow of Surinam's government, and told of a secret neo-Nazi meeting to take place on March 22 in a Cologne suburb (sounding like "Eschenstein") at which she was to deliver an apparently illegal lecture. (Request fascism SWC.oprep)