The most baffling email is from American pedophila advocate & failed congressional candidate Nathan Larson, who sought support and signatures for a petition to allow white nationalist mass shooter Dylann Roof to run for a seat in congress. Larson died in 2022 while facing child pornography charges.

Travis Frey, a former captain at an ICE detention facility who was identified as an Iron March user in 2019 by @tessowen.bsky.social, submitted an article draft to the Rope Culture email address, called “The Greater Holy War,” and listed his Iron March username: “In Hoc Signo Vinces.”

In an email message, a person using the email address [email protected] sent a Word document containing a draft of the article whose metadata attributed authorship to a “Baltrušis Baltrušaitis Lukas.” This name matches a freelance stage technician in Kaunas, Lithuania.

“Teliavelis” was a member of the Lithuanian neo-Nazi group Skydas and wrote an article published on Rope Culture. This user registered for Iron March with the email address “[email protected].”

Hangaard wrote to Gabriel Sohier-Chaput (Zeiger) on Skype, regarding Iron March “we have all the the [sic] material. It is not all deleted. We will rebuild everything.” We were unable to determine how the Iron March and Rope Culture web servers ended up in a publicly available torrent archive.

Natt registered his Iron March account using the email address “[email protected],” which is connected to the name “Mikkel Hangaard” via a breach of patreon.com. This corroborates previous reporting by the Danish research collective @redoxdk.bsky.social, which identified Natteulven as Hangaard.

“Natt Danelaw” was another host of the Rope Culture podcast “The Hanged Fool,” and wrote an article for Rope Culture. In one Iron March message he mentions his alias Natteulven (Danish for “The Night Wolf”) and that he is “a proud member of Danskernes Parti,” a Danish anti-immigrant political party.

In one of his Iron March messages, Змајевит shared the name of his Facebook account as “Данило Тотарвај” (the english transliteration of which is “Danilo Totarvaj”) and wrote “don't share personal info pls.”

“Змајевит” co-hosted Rope Culture’s flagship banter podcast, “The Hanged Fool”, and was a moderator on Iron March. We’ve identified him as Danilo Totarvaj, a graduate of the University of Belgrade who works at a small video game development company.

Duiven re-used the same username for his personal email address and his Nazi email address, and posted the same unique nature photo on his personal VKontakte account and his Nazi Facebook account.

“Florian Geyer” hosted Rope Culture’s “Christian Fascist” podcast, Mysterium Fasces. We’ve identified him as Alexandre Jacob Duiven, a June 2022 graduate of the Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Seminary in New York.

Based on data in the web server, the most common website that users were referred to Rope Culture from (clicking a link that took them to the Rope Culture website) was Facebook.

Atomwaffen Division founder Brandon Russell, who is serving a 20 year sentence for trying to destroy an energy facility, published a painting on Rope Culture, and designed an advertisement for the site that ran on the image board 8chan.

The server also contains nearly 1000 comments on the website, with every commenter’s email and IP address. Commenters include 40 Iron March users, former Atomwaffen Division leader John Cameron Denton, Daily Stormer writer Ben Garland, and convicted pedophile Wesley Gilreath.

We’ve made enhancements to the Iron March database, incorporating additional messages, posts, and users and filling holes in the original database by merging tables and including additional sources, like snapshots from the Internet Archive.

Looking at a map of nearly 300k visits to the Rope Culture website, we see heavy traffic from North America and Europe—not surprising for a neo-Nazi website. There’s also a South American presence, consistent with an old Iron March infographic showing branches in Chile and Brazil.

Rope Culture & Iron March were taken offline in November 2017. The link to the archive containing both databases was posted 4 times on Fascist Forge, a forum which tried and failed to recreate Iron March. The earliest share of the link we found was in a Pastebin file from June 2018.