Alexander Rud Mills
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Alexander Rud Mills (1885-1964) was an early and prominent Odinist in Australia, and one of the earliest proponments of the rebirth of Odinism in the 20th Century whose role in the emergence of Germanic Neopaganism in that country before and during World War II resulted in his arrest and political detention by the Australian government.
A lawyer and published poet, Mills strongly advocated pre-Christian Germanic faith as a decidedly healthier path for peoples of northern European ethnic heritage than either Christianity or Marxist materialism. He successfully founded an Odinist church in 1936. The Australian wartime authorities, wrongly concluding that Mills and fellow Odinists were Nazi sympathizers, arrested and interned him and other Odinists in detention camps during the period 1942 - 1944.
Mills was cleared of any wrongdoing by a judicial panel, but received no compensation for his imprisonment.
Mills' writings influenced Else Christensen, contributing to the Germanic Neopagan revival of the 1960s and 1970s.
