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Neo-Nazis won 33% of votes in some areas of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
The state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania has allowed neo-Nazism to fester in its rural areas by neglecting the needs of local people and failing to confront xenophobia head-on. Analysts warn that the recent election outcome for the far-right NPD party suggests the state is losing the battle against extremists. Far-right supporters are firmly ensconced in rural communities, where they staff the local fire departments, run leisure activities for young people and provide citizen's advice for welfare claimants. The NPD won 6.0% of the overall vote in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, and in some parts, like in the village of Koblentz, the NPD won 33.3% after being the only party to bother to hang up campaign posters.
(spiegel.de)
Neo-Nazis seize council seats across Germany, just like Nazi Party in 1920s during the financial downturn
Local elections saw neo-Nazis rocketed into power in towns and cities across Germany. In the east German cities of Leipzig, Dresden, Weimar, Schwerin, Rostock and Erfurt the main neo-Nazi party the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) won seats in all councils. In the state of Thuringia the NPD got 21 seats, in Saxony 73, trebling their numbers from the 2004 elections. Former NPD official Uwe Luthardt painted a picture of Neo-Naxis trying to build a Fourth Reich from the grassroots upwards as experts fear that the declining conditions are similar to those of the late 1920s and 1930s which sent Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime - the Third Reich - to power.
(dailymail.co.uk)
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)
The far right is on the march again in Austria - 30% voted extremist right-wing parties
This is a gathering in memory of an Austrian-born Nazi fighter pilot, who downed 258 planes. Such was Major Walter Nowotny's fame that the Nazi Party granted him a grave of honour in Vienna's largest cemetery. This is also a neo-Nazi gathering, which includes some of Austria's most hard-faced fascists, like Gottfried Kussel, a infamous thug imprisoned for 8 years for promoting Nazi ideology. Ominous-looking men with scars whisper to each other: They are members of Burschenschaften, a group best known for an initiation ceremony that includes a fencing duel in which the opponents cut each other's faces - and for its links to the far right.
(dailymail.co.uk)
British Nazi Party most popular political site in UK
The British National Party has the most visited Web site in UK politics. The far-right group got 51% of all hits to UK party sites last year - 7 times more than the sites by Labour and the Liberal Democrats. Hitwise`s Robin Goad, the company that provided the figures, estimates most visitors to the BNP site were curious rather than genuine party admirers. Ein volk; ein lager und ein packet of crisps, bitte.
(theinquirer)
Modern nazis get 40% of votes in some areas, 10% in some states
Germany: There have been calls for a ban on a far-right party NPD, created in West Germany mainly by Nazi war veterans, that has been winning increased support in poorer parts of the east. "The National Democratic Party provides the core infrastructure for neo-Nazis in Germany," says Sebastian Edathy. "This is one of the most interesting political developments in Germany, how the far right is gaining influence in ... the provinces," says Toralf Staud, the author of Modern Nazis, a study of the NPD and neo-Nazi movement. NPD has 10% support in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, and in one community, Postlow, it got almost 40% of the vote in state elections.
(bbc)
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 bigger party than Social Democrats in Saxony Survey
According to a survey in the eastern German state of Saxony, 9% of the population supports the neo-Nazi NPD with 8% in favor of the Social Democrats. The NPD says it's because the far-right party isn't racist, calling the numbers "really sensational." The poll comes 3 weeks after Saxony was in the news after a xenophobic mob chased 8 Indians through the town of Mügeln yelling "Foreigners Out!" before beating them up.
(spiegel)
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)
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)
See also:
Neo Nazi Movement.