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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...
Mar 20, 2012 · During the 1930s, landowners Winona and Norman Stephens created “Murphy Ranch,” an American outpost for Nazi sympathizers who were dubbed the “Silver Shirts.” The Daily Mail reports the...
Mar 7, 2018 · The owners, Norman and Winona Stephens, claimed to have come to California from out east and were very eager to sell the property. Vincent’s record of his visit is the only first-hand description of Murphy Ranch that exists. Everything else known about the mysterious compound has come down through local lore from area residents over the decades.
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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...
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...
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Mar 19, 2012 · 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.
