APRIL GAEDE: 'THIS IS A TOUGH TIME FOR ME'

July has not been all that easy for Nazis, has it. One Nazi gets KOed by a black man in Aryan Nations country, a Nazi group gets kicked out of a library and has to stage a protest where they are so on the DL a local newspaper says they are a no-show, and the most well-known Nazi group in America today – for what THAT is worth – has reportedly given up the Hitler ghost. You remember Prussian Blue, the twins who were all over the news because of their little hook: being preteen singing Nazis? Well, in case you have missed the scores of stories about this interview, they have renounced white nationalism and are in one of their words “stoked” about diversity – and marijuana (read the interview). That doesn’t sit too well with their mom, April Gaede (pictured) who is putting on a brave face while doing damage control. See, she is still WP, and she needs to keep getting more people that think like her into the fold. So the idea that her most famous offspring is turning their back on all she has done for them – like making them pariahs at 13 all over the world – is a problem. She finally decided to rap about it online publicly, and it is some good insight as to why this scene is soooooooo pathetic.

One People’s Project

In 2001, VH1’s documentary “Inside Hate Rock” featured a National Alliance meeting where two blond twins sang an acapella version of a song by the white power band Skrewdriver. In the documentary, their mother, then-National Alliance member April Gaede was spotlighted as well. In 2005, they all became infamous when ABC did a documentary on the Lamb and Lynx Gaede who were called Prussian Blue. Eventually they were known all over the world, but few received them with open arms. As they became more and more prominent in the media, they were protested, scorned, threatened and ridiculed in off-Broadway plays. The biological father of the twins tried unsucessfully to gain custody of them. Eventually April Gaede grew weary of it all and moved her family from Bakersfield, CA to Kalispell, Montana – much to the chagrin of the locals there who immediately began flyering the community alerting people as to where they lived.

By 2009, things started to cool. Their website and MySpace pages were not being updated, Lamb and Lynx vanished from public view, and the public moved on. Every now and then some news about the twins would surface that would illicit a chuckle, like when one of them posted instructions online on how to make a bong out of an apple. When one of the twins started using their father’s last name on Facebook, speculation grew that something was wrong in the white power paradise April Gaede was trying to create in Montana. Then the interview came out.

On Sunday, the UK website the Daily published an interview with the twins, their first in five years, where they both renounced their past. “I’m not a white nationalist anymore,” Lamb said. “My sister and I are pretty liberal now.” Lynx concured, saying, “Personally, I love diversity. I’m stoked that we have so many different cultures. I think it’s amazing and it makes me proud of humanity every day that we have so many different places and people.”

The interview, which was conducted by Aaron Gell, the executive editor of the New York Observer, spread like wildfire across the internet. Many applauded the twins’ change of heart, while others expressed concern about the health issues they mentioned in the interview, Lynx being diagnosed with cancer in her freshman year and also with a rare condition called cyclic vomiting syndrome, Lamb suffering scoliosis and chronic back pain, and both trying to deal with constant stress. Eyebrows were raised even more when they expressed publicly their advocacy of medical marijuana, which is legal in Montana, and the suggestion that were they return to the public and political sphere again it will be in that capacity. Meanwhile, their old fan base is mixed on the matter. Most, if not all, are disappointed. Some are more worried that they will begin to date non-whites. Many took issue with their expressed concern of people in the White Power scene that may do them harm, which no doubt – along with the fact that the more misogynistic posters came out to use this as an example not to trust women -prompted an immediate and angry response to a poster on the Vanguard News Network forum named Peter Vollmer who wrote, “Little sluts had better shut their mouths.”

The thread where that post appears is also where one could find one of the few public postings by April Gaede herself about the interview. According to the interview, one of the twins still lives at home, while the other lives elsewhere, working as a chambermaid in a nearby hotel. While the twins, characterize their mother’s beliefs and activities – which include trying to create a Whites-only homeland in Kalispell – a “fixation”, she views her daughter’s direction as simply a phase they are going through. “They are right now under pressure to fit in with the local naive upper crust hippy dippy crowd here in town, they dont want to live in Cali with all the muds and know that our race needs to be saved, but they got tired of all the attacks,” she wrote. “I know it sometimes is tough, so I am not all that mad at them. They will eventually pull their heads out of their asses and get reality.”

And again the larger media is trying to reach them, and with that, April, who was also interviewed sees dollar signs. “They have made some bank on this though,” April continued, “bank” being an old hip hop term meaning money. “They insisted on taking all the photos themselves or having our house guest do it so they could sell them through the photo agent to the media and make money. The Today show just knocked on the door, we gave her the number for the photo agent, James McGrath from Polaris and sent her packing. At least the girls are greedy enough to force the fucking Jews to pay for the privilege to interview them.”

And this interview in particular, April says, was the result of a series of phone calls over six months from Gell. “Basically the girls have been being chased by the media for the past 2 years telling them that they need to ‘come forward’ and let everyone know what they think now they are ‘adults’ she wrote. “They put it off and put it off. Finally they got to talking to Gell and over a period of about 6 months had many phone calls with him. Phone calls that happened when they were mad at me, each other, their landlord etc. Basically emotional.

“Over this period of time they were put on the spot over and over and tried to make thier point of view clear, she continued. “The article was edited and only the parts that made the point that the Jews wanted was left.”

And the marijuana issue may not be much of one as April, while saying she does not like to use it, has expressed advocacy for it as well in the past, especially since she feels it saved her daughter’s life. “Montana grown is probably better than anything you could even hope to find in Cali,” she once wrote. “We dont need to deal with whiskey drunk wagon burners for our weed, we whites know how to grow it scientifically. For medicinal purposes of course.”

In one of her posts, April attempted to use a spin that white supremacists have been trying to popularize over the past month: that they love diversity so much they want the races apart to preserve it. “Lynx just now was sitting on my bed complaining ‘when I said I loved multiculturalism and diversity’ I meant that I wanted our diversity to be preserved and I think that multiple races and
cultures need to be preserved, not all mixed together,” she wrote. “‘I want to have blond haired blue eyed babies mom.'”

Whatever happens in the future for Lamb and Lynx and even their mother is up to them. The world will move on with or without them, as it has in the past. In the end however, it is April who seems to be trying to make sense of it all, remaining ever hopeful that her children will remain soldiers for a cause that much of the world would rather they didn’t. But at least she has the cybernazis that will give her aid and comfort, and she was most appreciative of that. “Thanks for all your support those of you who realize this is a tough time for me,” she wrote.