Neo Nazis and Fourth Reich - Exposed schemes and plots.
Latest hand-picked WWII news. See also: Russian Neo-Nazis, Right Wing Parties, Nazi Memorabilia, Prussian Blue, Nazi Tanks of WW2.
Das Versteckspiel (Hide and Seek): Book reveals secret meaning of Neo-Nazi codes
Openly Nazi symbols such as the swastika are banned in Germany, so neo-Nazis get around the law by using coded combinations of letter and numbers such as 14 and 88. A new book - called "Das Versteckspiel" ("Hide and Seek") - explains the meaning of such codes, and reveals that far-right style is becoming increasingly diverse and hard to spot. Very few people know the real meaning of such codes, explains book's author Michael Weiss, a German expert on right-wing extremism.
(spiegel.de)
Jamel, village where Neo-Nazis rule: Hitler salutes, firing practices, signs pointing to Hitler's birthplace
Neo-Nazis have taken over a village in Germany: If they left it would be empty - symbolizing the far right's power in the former communist east. The village of Jamel has become a pilgrimage site: right-wing visitors come from all over Europe to see the village where neo-Nazis call the shots. Signs point the way to Hitler's birthplace ("Braunau am Inn 855 km") and to the formerly German cities of Breslau and Königsberg (now Kaliningrad). Mayor Uwe Wandel is helpless: "The police, the authorities, no one dares to intervene. The Nazis are laughing in our faces."
(spiegel.de)
German authorities raid 22 households, arrest 23 persons to shut down a Neo-nazi Internet radio station
Joerg Ziercke, the head of Germany's federal criminal police force, said that prosecutors are looking into a group behind the neo-Nazi Internet radio station "Resistance Radio," adding that "Recently the right-wing extremist scene has shown a clear tendency towards modernization in their use of strategies for advertising and mobilization." 270 officers raided 22 households across Germany, most in the western states of Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia. 17 men and 6 women, suspected of being producers and presenters for the radio station, were captured in the raid.
(dw-world.de)
Former Neo-Nazi leader talks about tolerance, explains recruiting methods, and how U.S. Marines made him a better racist
TJ Leyden - who grew up in Fontana (California) known as the HQ of the Ku Klux Klan and birthplace of Hell's Angels - still remembers the sound of a victim's thumb bone breaking. To get away from the cops and trouble, he joined the U.S. Marine Corps: "The military taught me to be a better racist... organizational skills, leadership ability, recruitment techniques." Leyden also explained how toys work: Toys R Us sells Nazi action dolls. If a child is given a toy Nazi, plays with it and then sees a Neo-Nazi wearing the Nazi uniform years later, he is going to be more open to talking to them and more open to their message. The "greatest" recruitment tool, Leyden stated, is music.
(cachevalleydaily.com)
Polish neo-Nazi couple discovered they are Jewish and turned their lives around
A Polish couple have revealed how they turned their backs on their neo-Nazi past – after learning that they were both Jewish. The one-time skinheads Pawel and Ola grew up as part of a hate-filled white power gang in Warsaw - once the location of the largest Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Europe. Even when the couple started attacking Jews, their parents still kept silent about their family history - hid by their parents to avoid persecution from first the Nazis and then the Soviet-controlled post-war government. Now they both are earnest members of an Orthodox Jewish synagogue.
(dailymail.co.uk)
Neo-Nazi parents raising little skinheads taking over Kindergartens in eastern Germany
An eastern German state has ordered teachers to vow allegiance to democracy to prevent neo-Nazis taking over kindergartens. But that won't solve the key issue: the racist youths who attacked immigrants in the 1990s are now parents raising little skinheads. The state of Mecklenburg Western-Pomerania took the step of ordering anyone setting up a children's day-care center to pledge their support for Germany's democratic constitution. The move a number of cases in which neo-Nazis had attempted to take over the running of a kindergarten, influence teaching, bring in racist books or get recruited as teachers.
(spiegel.de)
In photographs: Neo-Nazis in America
In photographs: Neo-Nazis in the United States.
(discovery.amelito.com)
Jewish merchant shows how to deal with a neo-Nazi
Daniel Kravitz owns Denver's Home Again Furniture. "I receive a phone call... the young man ... says he has only $700 ... to furnish his whole apartment. I say, if you're not picky, I can furnish the apartment for $700." The next day a skinhead walks in. On his arm are tattoos saying "Kill Niggers and Jews". "After touring the store the total comes to $1,000, which I discount down to $700. He looks over the receipt and says, 'Boy, you really gave me a big discount'. I help him load the furniture onto a pickup truck. We work up a sweat... and I ask him whether he would like to have a Coke... and tell him I'm Jewish."
(jewishworldreview.com)
Strange woman: Bodybuilding neo-Nazi says racism saved her from the adult films
The world is full of strange people. Corinna Burt - a bodybuilder, a white supremacist, an undertaker, and former adult film star - is one of them. According to a watchdog group that monitors the neo-Nazi groups, Corinna is "the most prominent National Socialist Movement organizer in the Pacific Northwest." She's been photographed in Nazi uniform and given presentations with titles like "Treblinka Was Not a Death Camp." And she has been whipped, gagged, bound, and electrocuted on camera under the name "Cori Lou". By phone, she talked about her unusual life and how racism "saved her" from that particular film industry.
(gawker.com)
Neo Nazi groups are everywhere from Mongolia to Israel, as angry teenagers think Hitler is cool
"White Swastika" is the name of a neo-Nazi group that has emerged in Mongolia. Its members don't seem to have understood the point that, by Adolf Hitler's definition, they are not white. But Nazi concepts of racial purity are taken very loosely by angry young people all over the world. Even in Israel, where a gang of neo-Nazi youths were sent to jail in 2008 for assaulting Jews and covering synagogues with swastikas. In India Hitler memorabilia is a growing trend, while in Russia street thugs attack anyone they suspect of being non-Slav (has anyone informed them that Hitler wasn't a fan of Slavs).
(telegraph.co.uk)
Germany's pro-Hitler party plans training centre and breeding centre
Far-right National Democratic party (NPD) has sparked outrage with plans for a Third Reich-style "training centre." The mastermind of the scheme is Jürgen Rieger, a lawyer and deputy leader of the anti-immigrant party that is full of pride for Adolf Hitler and the "accomplishments" of the Nazi regime. The idea is for the old Hotel Gerhus at Fassberg, near Hanover, to become a sacred place for NPD devotees, where they can learn about the "menace" of immigration and the "innate decency of law-abiding German nationalists". Rieger has also attempted to set up "breeding centres" - for all white, Aryan racists to produce offspring to people the Fourth Reich.
(independent.co.uk)
Where to find active-duty members of the US Army: Try neo-Nazi sites
The typical online profiles of newsaxon.org members reveal common favourites. Book: Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf. Film: the Nazi propaganda film Triumph of the Will by Leni Riefenstahl. Dislikes: anyone who opposes the master race. But there's one other thing that large number of members have in common: They proudly id themselves as active-duty members of the U.S. armed forces. One member, a 24yo staff sergeant, wrote: "I have been in the Army for over 5 years now ... I have been in Iraq and Kuwait ... I love and will do anything to keep our master race marching. I have been a skinhead forever."
(stripes.com)
Why the U.S. military is ignoring its own regulations and allowing Neo-Nazis to join
U.S. Army prohibits soldiers from taking part in racist groups, and recruiters keep an eye out for questionable tattoos. Before signing up, enlistees need to explain any tattoos. Forrest Fogarty, a member of white-power movement, sailed right through the process. "They just told me to write an explanation of each tattoo, and I made up some stuff, and that was that." Fogarty's ex-girlfriend sent photos (which showed Fogarty attending white supremacist rallies) to Fort Stewart. "They hauled me before some sort of committee and showed me the pictures. I just denied them... They knew what I was about. But they let it go because I'm a great soldier," Fogarty explains.
(salon.com/)
Germany for Germans: Germany still has trouble countering Neo-Nazis
Regular neo-Nazi rallies attracting thousands of supporters of extreme nationalism or a revival of National Socialism have become a feature of right-wing extremism. Critics say the past governments have been inconsistent in efforts to uproot the sources of racism. "You already have... neo-Nazi grassroots organizations, working very concretely at the spot... they're taking over very basic tasks, like tutoring school kids, doing youth work, engaging in voluntary fire brigades," explains Timo Reinfrank, adding that any real solution will have to see a return of average citizens to everyday social affairs.
(rferl.org)
German Government outlaws Neo-Nazi youth group
The German government outlawed the far-right youth group "Heimattreue Deutsche Jugend", or German Youth Faithful to the Homeland, for trying to indoctrinate children with racist and National Socialist ideology. Police searched the homes and offices of leading members of the group in Berlin and the states of Lower Saxony, Brandenburg and Saxony. The ban means the HDJ, founded in 1990, is immediately dissolved and its assets have been seized. By setting up supposedly harmless outdoor activities such as summer camping holidays, the HDJ had attempted to turn teenagers into Nazis.
(spiegel.de)
Hitler Salutes, Nazi Songs and Dreams of a Greater Reich - Ex Neo Nazi speaks up
Uwe Luthardt was a senior member of the right-extremist NPD. But he quit after 3 months. He depicts the NPD as a radical party, bent on restoring the German Reich, where Hitler salutes and financial irregularities are common. (Q) People who leave are threatened? (A) It happens. Otherwise the party would have even fewer members. The mood isn't good at the moment. The party is short of money. (Q) What didn't you like? (A) It wasn't really my world. When you went along to evening meetings, you saw all the shaved heads and a black sun or other Nazi symbols tattooed on arms. They usually just boozed. If there's no opponent around, they just fight among themselves.
(spiegel.de)
Israel jails 8 homegrown Neo-Nazis
The last thing you would expect to find in the Jewish state would be neo-Nazis, but an Israeli court jailed 8 teens for beating up Jews, gays and the elderly, while shouting "Heil Hitler!" The gang had also attacked a drug addict and forced him to crawl and beg for forgiveness for being a Jew (videotape of this was placed on their site). They weren't secretive about their identities, having walked around the beaches of Tel Aviv parading their Nazi tattoos. And all of these neo-Nazis are Israelis - one of them even has grandparents who survived the Holocaust. Israel's neo-Nazis are the sons of immigrants from the former Soviet Union.
(time.com)
Germany: Nationwide raids in sites linked to rightist youth group
The German authorities executed nationwide raids as part of an probe into a youth group accused of "brainwashing" kids with neo-Nazi ideals. The raids were carried out in all but two of the 16 states, with the authorities searching the offices and homes of 100 people. The Interior Ministry said no arrests had been made, but the authorities looked for evidence against the Homeland-Faithful German Youth (HDJ - Heimattreue Deutsche Jugend), and are loosely associated to the far-right National Democratic Party. The group is accused of indoctrinating young people with Nazi ideology "in order, later in life, to transform them" into extremists.
(iht.com)
Neo-Nazis join U.S. Army to serve in Iraq - and to learn how to make boms
A nickname "Sobibor's SS" logged on to a neo-nazi forum with exciting news: He'd just enlisted in the U.S. Army. "Sieg Heil, I will do us proud," he wrote. He'd requested and been assigned to MOS (Military Occupational Specialty), 98D. MOS98D soldiers are in high demand, because they're trained in disarming Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) like the roadside bombs that are wiping out U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. A part of learning how to disarm an IED is learning how to make one. "I have my own reasons for wanting this training but in fear of the government tracing me and me loosing [sic] my clearance I can't share them here," explained Sobibor's SS.
(alternet.org)
Neo-Nazis buying up castles, farmsteads and townhouses
To the beat of a big bass drum, neo-Nazi marching season opens as far-right clans gather to mark the death of Adolf Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess. It is an annual spectacle, and authorities have already sealed off the Hess family grave in Bavarian Wunsiedel and villagers chanting: "Go home, Nazis!" But the neo-Nazis already have homes. As part of a shady operation they have gained a solid foothold in the German property market. "They've been buying up castles, farmsteads and townhouses. Recently the neo-Nazis have been snapping up warehouses or empty supermarkets where they can stage their rallies," said Andrea Roepke.
(timesonline.co.uk)
German authorities break up neo-Nazi youth camp disguised as "adventure camp"
Authorities say they have broken up a neo-Nazi youth camp near Rostock, in Germany. Spokesman Volker Werner says officers raided the camp run by a neo-Nazi organization, discovering racist propaganda material dating from to the early 20th century and towels decorated with nazi signs. 39 kids at the camp have been sent home. The group that ran the camp, the Heimattreuer Deutsche Jugend (HDJ) had described it as a youth adventure camp.
(dw-world.de)
Neo-Nazi violence is just a part of everyday life in parts of Germany
Arson attacks and racist assaults by Neo-Nazis are part of everyday life in parts of Germany. "Right-wing extremism ... only attracts attention when the crimes are especially horrific," says Wolfgang Thierse. --- The arsonists came on the night before Adolf Hitler's birthday. After trying to burn down an Asian fast-food stand in Blankenfelde, they turned their attention to the kebab stand owned by Haci. He had tried to get insurance, but hadn't managed to find a company that would take him on. Fire insurance for a kebab stand located in the state of Brandenburg - Not a chance.
(spiegel)
Top member of Germany's neo-Nazi movement quits, recalls Wehrmacht grandfather
She was 20 years a leading member of Germany's neo-Nazi scene, but then decided to quit. Katja Wolf (name changed) reveals how she grew into far-right ideology, and how she now fears revenge. She was brought up mainly by her Wehrmacht grandfather. "As an old veteran of the Wehrmacht he described the war to me in bright colors. After I while I had the feeling that the Führer was my uncle." But her grandfather didn't just talk. "I had to go on hill walks with him with a heavy rucksack. He drove me on until my feet bled." At 13 Katja was wearing a bomber jacket, and she was a member of the "Viking youth."
(spiegel)
Neo-Nazi hotline created in Germany
Germany has created a neo-Nazi hotline and website for parents worried that their children are joining far-Right extremists. Counselling Against Far-Right Extremism also gives advice to youths who would like to get out of the neo-Nazi groups – known as "comradeships". The hotline is offering counselling to parents and teachers on what to do if they discover that their children are wearing bomber-jackets, draw swastikas on the walls, shave their head or give the Hitler salute. In the first 3 months of 2008, 1311 crimes were committed by neo-Nazis, with 191 people badly injured.
(telegraph)
Arizonan Dieter Bueschgen is a major racist paraphernalia dealer
Dieter Bueschgen, 69, is seated with a Luger semi-automatic pistol on the end table, close at hand. A Mauser rifle is against a display case holding his collection of Viking ship models and German beer steins. He's wearing a sweat suit and a lot of jewelry, like a gold Odin's hammer pendant and silver ring fashioned into an SS Totenkopf death's head. Since the mid-1990s, he has been a grandfather figure to neo-Nazis, and one of the biggest dealers of World War II-era Nazi memorabilia in the western United States. One entire wall is stocked with Hitler-Jugend odds and ends, belt buckles, armbands and merit badges.
(splcenter)
Study: Women Rising in Far-Right Ranks
Think of a neo-Nazi and you think of a man with a shaved head. But that image is out-of-date, some social researchers, like Renate Bitzan, say. Groups like the nationalistic Gemeinschaft Deutscher Frauen (Organization of German Women) promotes political activism and urges motherhood. On the other hand, groups like the Mädelring Thüringen (Thüringen Girl Gang) exist to battle the patriarchy and political immaturity. One worker in Ostprignitz, a downcast area of eastern Germany, explained: "The girls want to have fun, they are totally bored... They are looking for something really attractive. That is the far-right scene."
(dw-world)
Swastikas, Iron Cross, Goering tattoo: US Army skinhead groups in 1990s
Jimmy Burmeister Jr. has died in prison. He had no good reason to feel superior to anyone. He wasn't smart or handsome. He attempted to be a tough guy but lost every fight. With no prospects he joined the Army, assigned to Fort Bragg, N.C., the 82nd Airborne Division. But he washed out as a paratrooper, and ended up as a firearms clerk. He fell into a group of 60 skinhead soldiers at Fort Bragg. Some decorated bunks with swastikas and replaced dog tags with the German Iron Cross, passing around "Mein Kampf". One even had a chest tattoo of Hermann Goering. Then Burmeister became obsessed with getting a spider web tattoo: a sign you have killed a minority group member...
(nydailynews)
Neo-nazi church drops nazi symbols like swastika, Nazi uniforms
Anti-Semitic United Church of YHWH formed by white supremacists has given up its neo-Nazi imagery to make its message more acceptable. The group banned the use of Nazi uniforms, swastikas and similar regalia because they were a turnoff to people who might otherwise be interested. "We don`t like the swastikas. The majority of people see all that as pure evil," said Jonathan Williams, who was formerly involved with Aryan Nations, once the best-known neo-Nazi establishment in America. Bill Nigut, the regional director of the Anti-Defamation League, said the group was trying to "sanitize hatred" by appearing to be more mainstream.
(msnbc)
Germany's main neo-Nazi party release school newspaper
Germany's main neo-Nazi party National Democratic party (NPD) has launched a youth propaganda campaign by distributing newspapers that portray Adolf Hitler as a World War II peacemaker and the Allies as warmongers. State prosecutors in the east German city of Dresden said that authorities had confiscated 150 of the offending newspapers, entitled Perplex, circulated at schools in the region. German intelligence officials said the newspapers were part of a far wider campaign by the party to distribute tens of thousands of similar documents nationwide.
(independent)
Neo-Nazis use music to spread message: 100 right-wing rock bands
Germany's extreme right has stepped up efforts to spread its word through music: the number of neo-Nazi and skinhead concerts have doubled in the past 7 years to 160 and the country is home to about 100 right-wing rock bands. Despite being banned in Germany, music from neo-Nazi groups such as Landser (Foot Soldier), Race War, Power and Honour pump out often produced CDs that are manufactured outside the nation and distributed online. "Music is our weapon, more dangerous than tanks or shells", says a song from Sturmwehr. But this is mild compared with other tunes, which for example call for the reopening of Auschwitz.
(theage)
Village of Jamel in the Hands of Neo-Nazis: Over 50% are radicals
It all started in 1992, on April 19. 120 neo-Nazis raised the Reichskriegsflagge, a symbol used by Adolf Hitler's Nazi party, in front of the farmhouse to celebrate the 103rd anniversary of Hitler's birth. "We'll smoke you out," the right-wing radicals told the next door G. family, who had complained about neo-Nazi music. And had paid a steep price for such complaints: break-ins, their chickens dead and hanging from the fence. On Easter Sunday 1992 the family barricaded itself inside, and called the police, a mere 4 arrived, they didn't dare enter the house where the Nazis were partying. The G. family held out for 3 more years before leaving for good.
(spiegel)
Neo-nazi Soldiers planned attacks in Belgium
Belgian authorities arrested 17 alleged neo-Nazis, mostly serving soldiers, who were said to be planning to destabilise the country's institutions in a series of attacks. In simultaneous raids on five army barracks and 18 private addresses across the northern Flanders half of Belgium, police uncovered a homemade bomb and numerous weapons. The raids by 150 police officers were the most dramatic breakthrough in a two-year investigation into far-right activists allegedly operating inside the armed forces.
(guardian)
Neo-Nazis infiltrating the US military to get combat training
Neo-Nazi are taking advantage of relaxed recruiting standards to infiltrate the US military to get combat training, a civil rights group reported. The Southern Poverty Law Center called on US Defense Secretary to adopt a zero-tolerance policy toward white supremacist groups in the military. "Neo-Nazi groups and other extremists are joining the military in large numbers so they can get the best training in the world on weapons, combat tactics and explosives."
(breitbart)
Neo-Nazis hijack gala to burn Anne Frank diary
German neo-Nazis tore up and burned a copy of The Diary of Anne Frank after hijacking a gala. Around 100 skinheads shouted Sieg Heil as the memoir went up in flames. They also burned a U.S. flag and sang banned Nazi songs. The book-burning, which has parallels to the 1930s when Nazi supporters made pyres of books, follows a string of high-profile attacks by racist gangs. Anne Frank's diary was written by a schoolgirl who hid with her parents in a flat in German-occupied Amsterdam for 3 years before they were betrayed to the Gestapo. She died in death camps. Book is now a mandatory part of the curriculum at all German schools.
(dailymail)
American National Socialist Movement is building a juggernaut
The National Socialist Movement, once a forgotten bit player on the fringe of the American Radical Right, is building a juggernaut. For nearly three decades after it was founded in 1974, the NSM was overshadowed by the National Alliance and Aryan Nations, American's longtime leading neo-Nazi organizations, and later by the World Church of the Creator. But while those groups have largely imploded in recent years following the deaths or imprisonment of their leaders, the NSM has thrived.
(splcenter)
16 neo-Nazis on trial on charges of seeking new Nazi state
Prosecutors put 16 neo-Nazis on trial on Monday in Germany's western city of Koblenz, where they were being accused of seeking a new Nazi state and forming a criminal group for that purpose. The defendants were facing a trial that would last till the end of January on charges of forming a right-wing "Kameradschaft Westerwald" organization. Its purpose is to create a new Nazi state in Germany without foreigners.
(People)
German neo-Nazis live out their SS fantasies in SS uniforms
Neo-Nazis wearing SS uniforms spent almost two years living out their fantasies in the Czech Republic, entertaining crowds with mock executions of ''Jewish Bolshevik agents'', "Communist partisans" and "traitors", it was revealed by German state prosecutors. The macabre activities of the group, which claimed to be a historical re-enactment club, surfaced after the arrest of its founder, Peter Schulz, a known neo-Nazi – and, embarrassingly, former German intelligence agent – who is separately facing charges for the hoarding of weapons and explosives.
(telegraph.co.uk)
See also:
Russian Neo-Nazis
Right Wing Parties
Nazi Memorabilia
Prussian Blue
Nazi Tanks of WW2.