The Ku Klux Klan in Alabama is in the midst of a revival, with a surge in membership across the Deep South and plans for a “violent, all out race war,” according to a disturbing new report from the BBC.

A BBC film crew lead by documentarian Dan Murdoch was granted access to meet with some members of the secretive Loyal White Knights of Alabama, thought to be the largest KKK chapter in the United States. Speaking about filming the report, Murdoch said:

Many of the Klansmen I met are convinced that a violent, all-out race war is on the horizon. I met Klansmen training armed militias for that moment. To them, a race war is very real.

A clip from the documentary shows one Klansman describing how the groups have various members including teachers, military personnel, and even politicians, noting:

Most of the majority of our people are in the military. We all have our concealed weapons permits. There’s going to be a great war – I won’t call it a Civil War – it’ll be anything but that. It’ll be an uncivil war. You’ll see a bunch of Americans getting killed and blown up.

Another member notes:

We are under attack. America was founded as a Christian nation and they’re attacking our Christian values.

In another section of the recently released BBC documentary, an Alabama Ku Klux Klan member argues that Nazi concentration camps were like “summer camps,” and Hitler was trying to “rehabilitate” the Jews, in the following horrifying discussion.

KKK member:

Adolf Hitler, he was one of the smartest men there ever was. The so-called concentration camps like Auschwitz and so forth, they say they were death camps. But these death camps, they gave the so-called people that were being killed cigarettes, there was coffee, there was a movie theater, a library, even a swimming pool in Auschwitz. And if you’re going to sit there and kill all these people then how come all these things would be in there? It’s more like a summer camp.

In disbelief, the BBC interviewer asks:

You’re telling me Auschwitz was like a summer camp?

The KKK member replies:

Well, they had a swimming pool, a movie theater and everything else. You know, you don’t see in prisons today any kind of swimming pool being in the middle of the prison hall.

The BBC interviewer follows up by asking:

So what do you think the Jews were doing in Auschwitz?

KKK member answers:

Swimming. And working. Because they didn’t want to do any work, and what Hitler was trying to do was he was trying to teach them to work, trying to rehabilitate them, if you will.

The dumbfounded interviewer wonders:

Where did you hear this?

the Klan member says:

It’s all history.

In another horrifying segment, an extremely ignorant member of the KKK claims that the only way black people exist is because white people were sent to Africa to mate with apes, explaining:

God put a curse on the black. One time a black person was white. It’s the only way.

Filmmaker Murdoch notes:

A lot of their justifications for seeing other races as inferior came from their interpretation of bible passages. All of them were fiercely religious – the Klan claims it’s a Christian organization – sermons and bible readings are an important part of Klan meetings.

Watch a trailer for the documentary below –

