ABSTRACT
On August 17, 1946, a corporate charter was issued in Atlanta, Georgia, to an organization calling itself Columbians, Inc. At the time of the Atlanta Putsch, Homer L. Loomis was thirty-two years of age, having been born in New York on January 31, 1914. According to a statement of the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League, both Loomis and Emory Burke appeared to be well-grounded in Nazi techniques. While admitting that the Nazis had made mistakes, Loomis contended that the Columbians, by avoiding these mistakes, could build "a powerful force of reaction". In a raid on the headquarters of the Columbians, the police later found a library of fifty volumes devoted to the Nazi movement and including, of course, Hitler's Mein Kampf, which Loomis referred to, appropriately enough, as his "bible". The Columbians had prepared a list of the organizations and individuals that they intended to purge from Southern society.
