James von Brunn is alternately described as a decorated World War II PT boat captain, an artist and member of the high-IQ club, Mensa, as well as a notorious racist and anti-Semite.
The man who police say walked into the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in the nation's capital and started shooting Wednesday also is the author of Kill the Best Gentiles, a 200-page book denying the Holocaust and praising Hitler. In writings on what the Anti-Defamation League and other groups say is von Brunn's website, he writes a rambling autobiography and touts the tome as a "hard-hitting exposé of the Jew conspiracy to destroy the white gene pool."

I ran across this story in researching a trip to D.C.