Ben Klassen

Bernhardt Ben Klassen February 20, 1918 August 6, 1993 was a selfdescribed white supremacist and an American religious leader who founded the Church of the Creator with the publication of his book Natures Eternal Religion in 1973.

Klassen was born on February 20, 1918, in Rudnerweide , Ukraine, to Bernhard and Susanna Klassen, a Mennonite Christian couple. He had two sisters and two brothers. When Klassen was nine months old, he caught typhoid fever and nearly died. His earliest memories were of the famine of 192122. He remembered his father rationing to him one slice of dark bread for dinner. Klassen was first introduced to religion at the age of three or four. When he was five, the family moved to Mexico, where they lived for one year. In 1925, at age six, he moved with his family to Herschel, Saskatchewan, Canada. He attended the GermanEnglish Academy .

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