Cadet Martha Gerdes, 31, has been removed from the UNC-Charlotte's Army ROTC detachment after anti-Semitic, pro-Nazi and other offensive posts were discovered on her Twitter account, @femanon_

An Army ROTC cadet has been kicked out of the University of North Carolina's detachment after she allegedly posted a slew of anti-Semitic, pro-Nazism, racist and homophobic tweets.  

Martha Gerdes, 31, is on a 'leave of absence' from the Army Reserve Officers Training Corps at UNC's Charlotte campus pending her disenrollment from the program, according to US Army Cadet Command spokesman Maj Robert Carter. 

'Army ROTC remains committed to leadership excellence through diversity,' Carter said in a statement. 

'The activities conducted by Ms Gerdes are inconsistent with the high moral expectations of a future Army officer.' 

ROTC officials were alerted to her Twitter account, @femanon_, last fall when the anti-racism group Carolina Workers Collective shared screenshots of offensive posts. 

Gerdes admitted to investigators that she was behind the account, Carter said.  

It has since been suspended, but not before dozens of the tweets were archived. 

One post featured photos of Klu Klux Klan members and the words: 'The 1920′s was the best decade, I was born in the wrong era.'

Replying to another Twitter user last September, Gerdes wrote: 'Gas the k***s race war now.'  

The day after a gunman opened fire on a Pittsburgh synagogue in October, killing 11, Gerdes tweeted: 'I don't actually give a s*** about Jews getting shot up except insofar as it's going to make it a lot harder for a lot of white people to just exist.'

ROTC officials were alerted to the Twitter account @femanon_ last November, and Gerdes allegedly admitted to investigators that she was the administrator. The tweet above idolizing the Klu Klux Klan was shared by the account in June 2018

This tweet was posted on the @femanon_ page in October, one day after a gunman opened fire on the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, killing 11 people attending worship services

Gerdes' account was temporarily limited last September after she posted a tweet reply that said: 'gas the k*kes race war now'. She shared a photo of Twitter's warning email with the caption: 'Oh for crying out loud.' The account has since been suspended entirely

Gerdes was a student at Davidson College in North Carolina when the Army began investigating her social media activity last fall.  

Carolina Workers Collective had linked Gerdes to the racist and anti-Semitic Twitter account by matching photos and other details on her personal Facebook and Instagram accounts to the @femanon_ Twitter account. 

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Gerdes, a physics major and German studies teaching assistant at Davidson, was reportedly kicked out of the university in November over the allegations, according to Army Times.  

A student who knew her through Davidson's sailing club, Alex Sizemore, told the Chronicle of Higher Education that the cadet kept mostly to herself and was 'perfectly amicable to all of the other sailors on the team'. 

Sizemore said there was nothing to suggest that Gerdes was anti-Semitic or sympathetic to Nazis. 

Gerdes is from Charlottesville, Virginia, the city where white supremacists held a Unite the Right rally in 2017 that turned deadly when counter-protester Heather Heyer was mowed down on the street.  

Gerdes was enrolled at Davidson University in North Carolina when the Army first opened its investigation into her social media activity. The physics major served as a teaching assistant in the German studies department, according to Davidson officials

A classmate who knew Gerdes through Davidson's sailing club said she never gave him any reason to suspect that she harbored the extreme views expressed on her Twitter

The tweet above refers to Nazi ideology that people of Aryan descent are the 'master race'

The outrage surrounding Gerdes' posts subsided after her departure from Davidson. She transferred to UNC-Charlotte sometime before the 2019 spring semester.  

A school spokeswoman refused to comment on the allegations, saying federal law prevents the university from doing so. 

Gerdes recently returned to the spotlight after activists noticed a photo on UNC Charlotte's ROTC Facebook page that showed her at a field training event this spring. 

Her impending removal from the ROTC comes months after several members of the US armed forces, including two Army ROTC cadets from Montana and New York, were linked to a white nationalist group called Identity Evropa in March.  

Carter said both of those cadets 'are out of the programs now'.

In a strangely prophetic tweet last November, Gerdes admitted that there would be severe consequences if her Twitter account was discovered  

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