White supremacist murder suspect ‘idolized Hitler, had fascination with Nazis and wrote a lengthy “lovefest” paper about the German military’
James Alex Fields, 20, is accused of driving his car into a crowd on Saturday
He was pictured at the alt-right rally with a racist group in Charlottesville, VA.
The car crash left one woman dead and sent 19 others to the hospital
Fields’ former high school teacher claims that he idolized Hitler and Nazis
The history teacher added he once wrote a ‘lovefest’ paper about their military
By CHEYENNE ROUNDTREE
DAILYMAIL.COM
13 August 2017
The man allegedly responsible for killing one woman and injuring 19 others when he plowed his car into them had idolized Hitler and had a fascination with Nazis, his teacher claims.
James Alex Fields Jr, 20, is accused of driving his Dodge Challenger into a crowd of peaceful counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday afternoon.
Horrific videos show the car accelerating into the crowd before the vehicle reverses and drives off, leaving behind injured people screaming in pain.
The man from Maumee, Ohio, had been pictured marching with a racist, right-wing group known as Vanguard America, a few hours before the deadly attack.
Now, Fields’ former high school teacher claims that Fields admired Adolf Hitler, sympathized with Nazi views and wrote a paper that was a ‘lovefest’ for the racist group.
Derek Weimer said he taught history to Fields during his junior and senior years at Randall K. Cooper High School in Kentucky, the educator told the Washington Post.
The teacher said Fields once wrote a lengthy research paper about the Nazi military.
Weimer said: ‘It was obvious that he had this fascination with Nazism and a big idolatry of Adolf Hitler. He had white supremacist views. He really believed in that stuff.’
He added that Fields paper was a ‘big lovefest for the German military and the Waffen-SS.’
Weimer said he blames himself for not being able to steer Fields’ away from these views, saying: ‘When you’re a teacher and you see one of your former students do this, it’s a nightmare scenario. This was something that was growing in him.
‘I admit I failed. I tried my best. But this is definitely a teachable moment and something we need to be vigilant about because this stuff is tearing up our country.’
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