The Background
Thanks to an anonymous online leak of data and materials from influential Neo-Nazi website Iron March where the white supremacist terror groups Attomwaffen Division, Vanguard America, and National Action (among many others) formed, we were gifted with a trove of identifying information about Iron March users. Iron March forums was an internet chat room dedicated to the proliferation of anti-Semitic, racist, Islamophobic, homophobic rhetoric and actions. Members of the forum expressed sympathy toward Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik and the Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof, as well as the ’60s cult leader & murderer Charles Manson.
The released information includes a full copy of the Iron March content including usernames, users’ posts and links, along with sensitive details such as the email and IP addresses used to register usernames, plus private messages. All of that data, including the information shared in the private messages which include personal details are the framework which we use to identify users. The raw data is available for download and it was built into a searchable and more accessible website by Jewish Worker.
The Trace & Confirmation
Nick changed his email address on his Iron March account from nickschlappi909@gmail.com
Nick says that he was 15 years old in May of 2017, which makes him 18 or 19 now. He additionally tell us that
Based off a publicly available search engine, we are able to find an old Lake Orion newspaper connecting Nick Schlappi to his sister and mother [source]:From there, using another search, we find the flight crew of Hubby Wife Crew Life blog [source], where they confirm living in Michigan with their three children.
Then we jump to the social media sites and we find his sister’s family vacation photos with the only teenage male wearing a “Made in Detroit” shirt.
CW: antisemitism, sexual violence, etc
Nick participated on Iron March until the forums were shut down. He has quite some words to say about the Holocaust [source].
He was being courted by the Michigan cell leader of the Atomwaffen Division Jack Espinoza aka “Black Israelite.” He admits to reading Siege at the time. For background, Siege is a series of newsletters written in the 1980s advocating for race war, cell-structured terrorism, and white revolution [source] and serves as the ideological underpinning of several different Neo-Nazi organizations, including the Atomwaffen Division. For more information on Atomwaffen, the murders committed by its members, and law enforcement’s involvement, see this CBS report; this Daily Beast article; and this Rolling Stone article.
Due to the publishing requirements of this platform, we are not authorized to publicize personal information like home addresses. However, we can provide a link to such redacted information.
Nick’s most recently known place of employment according to his now-inactive LinkedIn is at Fountains Golf Course, where he is a cart attendant. You may contact his employer by sending a polite email to info@fountainsgolf.com