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Sep 24, 2014 · But census records from both 1930 and 1940 show engineer Norman F. and Chicago native Winona B. Stevens living in Pasadena and Hermosa Beach during that time. Most telling of all are sets of...
Mar 7, 2018 · Buried behind Los Angeles' skyscrapers lies Murphy Ranch, a graffiti-laden trail, and compound that was once intended as a sprawling community for American Nazis and Hitler himself. Murphy Ranch was built in Rustic Canyon in the 1930s by Winona and Norman Stephens, who were sympathizers of the anti-semitic, white supremacist Silver Legion of ...
There you'll catch a glimpse of an alternate reality in which the Nazis won World War II and set up their headquarters in sunny Los Angeles. That was the hope of landowners Winona and Norman Stephens, who built the the 50-acre "Murphy Ranch" in 1933 to be a self-sustaining Nazi community ruled by Adolf Hitler.
In the late 1930’s, during WWII, Winona and Norman Stephens were convinced by a German named Herr Schmidt that when Germany ultimately won the war, the American government would not be able to stay afloat and there would be a time of anarchy in the United States.
May 9, 2019 · In 1933, Winona and Norman Stephens, sympathizers of the Silver Legion of America, purchased the plot of land under the pseudonym “Jessie M. Murphy.” They believed that the Nazis would defeat...
Sep 18, 2017 · Anticipating that day, Norman and Winona Stephens bought a fifty-acre piece of land above the Pacific Palisades, and started to build a fortress that would serve as Hitler’s West Coast White...
Mar 20, 2012 · Plans to expand the compound were halted as the Stephens – though still loyal to Schmidt – ran dry. Schmidt, according to legend, persisted in pursuing his dream of a Nazi holdout in America ...
