Howell’s Social Club was located at the base of the rolling Appalachian foothills of northeast Georgia. In its heyday, it served as a diner during the day, a bar in the evenings, and on every other Wednesday night, the meeting place for the Society of Germanic Americans. The society was founded by a man named Avery Howell in the late 1920s. Howell was inspired by the worldview of the National Socialist movement that was coming to rise in his family’s country of origin. In his mind, they were dealing with the same problems he was. How was a nation to deal with the inferior parasitic races in their midst?
Howell was successful in rounding up a rather large group of young, poor locals, most of whom also traced their lineage back to Germany. Soon others joined as well, either for the social nature of the brotherhood or to indulge their hatred of the nearby black population. The Society had a loose affiliation with the KKK, but primarily they took their inspiration from the Nazi party. They thrived in the early thirties, with membership nearing one thousand men from all over rural White County and its neighboring towns. However, by the time most of the men went off to fight the Nazis in the forties, enthusiasm for German-based groups had dropped off considerably. By the time World War II ended, the Society had been completely suspended.
Tommy Howell, the great grandson of Avery Howell, still owned the building where the Social Club once lived. In the Howell family, this hallowed property was passed down from generation to generation. For many years, Tommy used it as an office for his landscaping company, but he always took care to maintain and care for the premises. Pictures from the glory days of the Howell Social Club still remained on the walls. The original wooden bar was still there, as was the antique cash register that once cranked and chimed with every beer sold. Tommy’s dad always wanted to reopen the club, but the time never seemed ripe. Then, about ten years ago, he passed away from lung cancer. Towards the end, he urged his son to one day reopen Howell’s Social Club and reinvigorate the values for which it once stood. Tommy listened carefully to his father and bided his time for the perfect moment. Then, in 2016, with the election of a president with a new approach to America, Tommy seized on the opportunity to reopen Howell’s Social Club.
Now just eight years later, a group of men known simply as the Society of Germanic Americans were meeting regularly at Howell’s Social Club in Sautee Nacoochee, Georgia. One by one they joined up. Word spread quickly that this new society was bringing the vision of the president to Northeast Georgia. Slowly but surely, Tommy Howell, recognizing his own ability to rally his followers, introduced the views his family had always trumpeted. Yes, he told them, the blacks and Latinos were to blame for much of society’s ills. But there was another race that was pulling the strings. There was another group that had all the power. The other minorities were just their pawns.
As far as Tommy was concerned, it was time to see what Hitler saw. It was the Jews who were the real enemy of the white Christian, and it was the Jews who needed to pay. It wasn’t hard to convince the uneducated farmers and factory workers that what he was saying was true. After all, the president himself hinted at it from time to time. Pretty soon, Howell’s views were making their way around the farms and towns of northeast Georgia. He even dug out some of the old Nazi flags his great grandfather collected and began displaying them around the Social Club. There was no objection from any of the members.
Thus far, none of the recent wave of anti-Semitic attacks around the country had been attributed to the Society. The hatred that was brewing in White County had been nothing more than talk up until now. As far as they knew, law enforcement was not even aware of their reemergence. But as Tommy Howell knew, the society was still biding its time, waiting for the right moment to further the cause. And this time their prime enemy was not the black community. This time it would be the Jews who would suffer for relegating the white Christian man in his own country.