#blood-and-honour — Public Fediverse posts

10/11 Um die laut #NoAfD-Kadern spektrenübergreifende Demo vollständig zu machen, erschien auch der frühere #BloodandHonour-Aktivist Tino Müller (l.) bei der Auftaktkundgebung. Müller war nach dem Verbot noch für das klandestin fortgeführte militante Netzwerk aktiv, organisierte Rechtsrockkonzerte und fuhr international zum Rechtsrock. Am 12.7. traf er beim Aufmarsch die Jugendgruppe seiner Nichte, die mit älterer Schwester Mutter im Aufmarsch mitlief.

10/11 Um die laut #NoAfD-Kadern spektrenübergreifende Demo vollständig zu machen, erschien auch der frühere #BloodandHonour-Aktivist Tino Müller (l.) bei der Auftaktkundgebung. Müller war nach dem Verbot noch für das klandestin fortgeführte militante Netzwerk aktiv, organisierte Rechtsrockkonzerte und fuhr international zum Rechtsrock. Am 12.7. traf er beim Aufmarsch die Jugendgruppe seiner Nichte, die mit älterer Schwester Mutter im Aufmarsch mitlief.

Heute beginnt in #Dortmund der Prozess gegen Robin Sch., Stanley R., Keven L. und Gregor Alexander M. wegen Fortführung von #Combat18, dem seit 2020 in Deutschland verbotenen extrem rechten Unterstützungsnetzwerk des seit 2000 in Deutschland verbotenen extrem rechten Netzwerks #BloodAndHonour 👇
https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/rheinland-pfalz/trier/mutmassliche-combat-18-mitglieder-vor-gericht-mann-aus-der-vulkaneifel-angeklagt-100.html

7/13 Orlin Pavlov nutzt seine Reisen nicht nur für hämische Fotos in der KZ-Gedenkstätte #Buchenwald und Treffen mit Kadern von #BloodandHonour / #Combat18, sondern trifft auch den #Jungsturm-Kader Philipp Mittelstedt in #Erfurt und besucht Heimspiele des #FCRWE.

7/13 Orlin Pavlov nutzt seine Reisen nicht nur für hämische Fotos in der KZ-Gedenkstätte #Buchenwald und Treffen mit Kadern von #BloodandHonour / #Combat18, sondern trifft auch den #Jungsturm-Kader Philipp Mittelstedt in #Erfurt und besucht Heimspiele des #FCRWE.

5/13 Ein Bindeglied zwischen #Sofia und #Erfurt ist Orlin Pavlov (r.) von den #Animals, gleichzeitig Aktivist in den Netzwerken von #BloodandHonour / #Combat18. An seiner Personalie zeigt sich die Gefährlichkeit der vorgeblich unpolitischen Fußballnetzwerke.

5/13 Ein Bindeglied zwischen #Sofia und #Erfurt ist Orlin Pavlov (r.) von den #Animals, gleichzeitig Aktivist in den Netzwerken von #BloodandHonour / #Combat18. An seiner Personalie zeigt sich die Gefährlichkeit der vorgeblich unpolitischen Fußballnetzwerke.

The neo-Nazi organisation Blood and Honour, which is linked to parts of the skinhead music scene, has become the first extreme right-wing group to have financial sanctions imposed by the UK government.

Treasury ministers said they had "reasonable grounds to suspect" Blood and Honour of being involved in "terrorist activities through promoting and encouraging terrorism, seeking to recruit people for that purpose and making funds available for the purposes of its terrorist activities".

The assets freeze - which was extended to all aliases or affiliate groups including Combat 18 and 28 Radio - means nobody in the UK can provide funding or financial services to those named organisations.

This is a different government response from proscription - in which the Home Office issues banning orders on extremist groups.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqjzj4zrppko

#BloodAndHonour #NeoNazis #fcknzs #fascism #skinheads #racism #fascism

The neo-Nazi organisation Blood and Honour, which is linked to parts of the skinhead music scene, has become the first extreme right-wing group to have financial sanctions imposed by the UK government.

Treasury ministers said they had "reasonable grounds to suspect" Blood and Honour of being involved in "terrorist activities through promoting and encouraging terrorism, seeking to recruit people for that purpose and making funds available for the purposes of its terrorist activities".

The assets freeze - which was extended to all aliases or affiliate groups including Combat 18 and 28 Radio - means nobody in the UK can provide funding or financial services to those named organisations.

This is a different government response from proscription - in which the Home Office issues banning orders on extremist groups.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqjzj4zrppko

#BloodAndHonour #NeoNazis #fcknzs #fascism #skinheads #racism #fascism

Far-right group #BloodAndHonour has assets frozen by government – #terror #BH #C18
The neo-Nazi organisation Blood and Honour, which is linked to parts of the skinhead music scene, has become the first extreme right-wing group to have financial sanctions imposed by the UK government. Treasury ministers said they had “reasonable grounds to suspect” Blood and Honour of being involved in “terrorist activities through promoting and encouraging terrorism
https://dokmz.com/2025/01/11/far-right-group-blood-and-honour-has-assets-frozen-by-government/

In the course of the "Day of Honor" Nazifest in Budapest in February 2023, the Hungarian government either arrested or subsequently issued international arrest warrants for a number of people who it says engaged in violence against the event's participants. Several of those people are currently either in custody of Órban's authoritarian state or pending extradition there.

There hasn't been a whole lot of detailed coverage of this stuff in English, so I recently interviewed a member of the Budapest Antifascist Solidarity Committee (BASC) in the hope of getting the word out a bit more widely and clarifying just what happened in Budapest and what has been going on since those events. The good people of @antidotezine were then kind enough to publish that interview today, on the one-year anniversary of Maja's arrest. If you've seen some of the hashtags below and didn't really have the context, this may well clear up a lot of questions.

https://antidotezine.com/2024/12/11/budapest-komplex/

#FreeMaja #FreeHanna #FreeGino #FreeThemAll #alerta #antifascist #antifa #fascism #Orban #Hungary #Budapest #DayOfHonor #IlariaSalis #BloodAndHonour #LegioHungaria #FreeLina #RuchNarodowy #NeoNazis #fcknzs

In the course of the "Day of Honor" Nazifest in Budapest in February 2023, the Hungarian government either arrested or subsequently issued international arrest warrants for a number of people who it says engaged in violence against the event's participants. Several of those people are currently either in custody of Órban's authoritarian state or pending extradition there.

There hasn't been a whole lot of detailed coverage of this stuff in English, so I recently interviewed a member of the Budapest Antifascist Solidarity Committee (BASC) in the hope of getting the word out a bit more widely and clarifying just what happened in Budapest and what has been going on since those events. The good people of @antidotezine were then kind enough to publish that interview today, on the one-year anniversary of Maja's arrest. If you've seen some of the hashtags below and didn't really have the context, this may well clear up a lot of questions.

https://antidotezine.com/2024/12/11/budapest-komplex/

#FreeMaja #FreeHanna #FreeGino #FreeThemAll #alerta #antifascist #antifa #fascism #Orban #Hungary #Budapest #DayOfHonor #IlariaSalis #BloodAndHonour #LegioHungaria #FreeLina #RuchNarodowy #NeoNazis #fcknzs

4/6 Wie schon oft zu eigentlich randständigen Veranstaltungen der #Eisenach|er Naziszene waren vorgestern wieder überregionale Neonazikader angereist: Mittig ist der Schweizer #BloodandHonour-Kader Manuel Bertozzi zu sehen, rechts Sascha Krolzig aus #Dortmund ("NS Heute").

4/6 Wie schon oft zu eigentlich randständigen Veranstaltungen der #Eisenach|er Naziszene waren vorgestern wieder überregionale Neonazikader angereist: Mittig ist der Schweizer #BloodandHonour-Kader Manuel Bertozzi zu sehen, rechts Sascha Krolzig aus #Dortmund ("NS Heute").

6/9 Im Okt’ 2021 übernahm Kellermann den Versand „Das Zeughaus“ vom #BloodandHonour-Kader Jens Hessler. Hessler schrieb Songs für „Stahlgewitter“ und den Text des Songs „Dönerkiller“, mit „Stahlgewitter“-Sänger Daniel Giese die #NSU-Morde verherrlichte. (Foto: @recherchenord

6/9 Im Okt’ 2021 übernahm Kellermann den Versand „Das Zeughaus“ vom #BloodandHonour-Kader Jens Hessler. Hessler schrieb Songs für „Stahlgewitter“ und den Text des Songs „Dönerkiller“, mit „Stahlgewitter“-Sänger Daniel Giese die #NSU-Morde verherrlichte. (Foto: @recherchenord

2/4 Kai Distelkam, der sich in unzähligen FB-Likes hinter Nazigruppen stellte, beschäftigt(e) auch den #Chemnitz|er Neonazi-Kader David Hasenkrug (Umfeld #BloodandHonour und #KampfderNibelungen), der Distelkam in Annonce "Kamerad" nannte.

https://antifainfoblatt.de/aib121/rechts-zuverlaessige-sicherheitsfirmen

2/4 Kai Distelkam, der sich in unzähligen FB-Likes hinter Nazigruppen stellte, beschäftigt(e) auch den #Chemnitz|er Neonazi-Kader David Hasenkrug (Umfeld #BloodandHonour und #KampfderNibelungen), der Distelkam in Annonce "Kamerad" nannte.

https://antifainfoblatt.de/aib121/rechts-zuverlaessige-sicherheitsfirmen

Neo-Nazi concert held in canton Geneva – #BloodAndHonour
Anti-Fascist organisations say a neo-Nazi music concert was held in Avully in Geneva over the weekend. They say it was organised by members of the international ‘Blood and Honour’ group, whose members have tattoos praising the Third Reich.
https://dokmz.com/2024/05/27/neo-nazi-concert-held-in-canton-geneva-bloodandhonour/

Neo-Nazi concert held in canton Geneva – #BloodAndHonour
Anti-Fascist organisations say a neo-Nazi music concert was held in Avully in Geneva over the weekend. They say it was organised by members of the international ‘Blood and Honour’ group, whose members have tattoos praising the Third Reich.
https://dokmz.com/2024/05/27/neo-nazi-concert-held-in-canton-geneva-bloodandhonour/

8/9 Hannes Ostendorf aus #Bremen, der heute als "Kategorie C solo" auftritt, ist mit seiner Band international im militanten bis rechtsterroristischen Netzwerk #BloodandHonour aktiv, für das er u.a. in Frankreich oder Lateinamerika schon auf der Bühne stand.

8/9 Hannes Ostendorf aus #Bremen, der heute als "Kategorie C solo" auftritt, ist mit seiner Band international im militanten bis rechtsterroristischen Netzwerk #BloodandHonour aktiv, für das er u.a. in Frankreich oder Lateinamerika schon auf der Bühne stand.

7/13 Von #Wölfis bei #Ohrdruf aus vertrieb der rechte Schläger Enrico Hähnlein lange in Dänemark produzierten Merch des militanten Netzwerks #BloodandHonour. Sein seit 2011 abrufbares Bild mit „Happy Holocaust“ steht sinnbildlich für das Selbstbewusstsein der Naziszene im Landkreis #Gotha.

7/13 Von #Wölfis bei #Ohrdruf aus vertrieb der rechte Schläger Enrico Hähnlein lange in Dänemark produzierten Merch des militanten Netzwerks #BloodandHonour. Sein seit 2011 abrufbares Bild mit „Happy Holocaust“ steht sinnbildlich für das Selbstbewusstsein der Naziszene im Landkreis #Gotha.

4/13 In #Ballstädt und #Henningsleben haben die früheren #Turonen Immobilien, in denen die aktuell nicht inhaftierten Matthias Melchner (l.) und Marco Zint (2.v.r.) wohnen. Hier mit Steffen Mäder bei einem #BloodandHonour-nahen NSHC-Konzert von „Pugilato“ (Sänger 1.v.r.) in Spanien im Nov’ 2022.

4/13 In #Ballstädt und #Henningsleben haben die früheren #Turonen Immobilien, in denen die aktuell nicht inhaftierten Matthias Melchner (l.) und Marco Zint (2.v.r.) wohnen. Hier mit Steffen Mäder bei einem #BloodandHonour-nahen NSHC-Konzert von „Pugilato“ (Sänger 1.v.r.) in Spanien im Nov’ 2022.

3/17 Im Jahr 2014 kamen in Budapest der in #Saalfeld wohnende Neonazi-Liedermacher Tobias Winter alias „Bienen Mann“ und der seit 2019 für die #NoAfD #Thüringen als Fotograf/Filmer tätige Neonazi Martin Schieck mit Aktivisten der holländ. Division von #BloodandHonour zusammen.

3/17 Im Jahr 2014 kamen in Budapest der in #Saalfeld wohnende Neonazi-Liedermacher Tobias Winter alias „Bienen Mann“ und der seit 2019 für die #NoAfD #Thüringen als Fotograf/Filmer tätige Neonazi Martin Schieck mit Aktivisten der holländ. Division von #BloodandHonour zusammen.

2/17 Der „Tag der Ehre“ ist neben der „Ausbruch“-Wanderung vor allem für seine #Rechtsrock-Konzerte beliebt, die von den ungarischen Divisionen der in Deutschland verbotenen Netzwerke #BloodandHonour und #Hammerskins organisiert werden.

2/17 Der „Tag der Ehre“ ist neben der „Ausbruch“-Wanderung vor allem für seine #Rechtsrock-Konzerte beliebt, die von den ungarischen Divisionen der in Deutschland verbotenen Netzwerke #BloodandHonour und #Hammerskins organisiert werden.

3/4 Eike Stegmann ist seit ca. 20 Jahren aktiver Neonazi im Landkreis Gotha und sympathisierte mit dem verbotenen #BloodandHonour-Netzwerk. Zusammen mit dem Ehepaar Weiß kam Stegmann am 16.6.2023 zum #FLAK-Konzert in #Eisenach. (Foto: @recherchenord

3/4 Eike Stegmann ist seit ca. 20 Jahren aktiver Neonazi im Landkreis Gotha und sympathisierte mit dem verbotenen #BloodandHonour-Netzwerk. Zusammen mit dem Ehepaar Weiß kam Stegmann am 16.6.2023 zum #FLAK-Konzert in #Eisenach. (Foto: @recherchenord

Detailed rundown of a leading Canadian and international neo-Nazi organizer and his far flung network

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Nippak is a 25-year-old Ontario man who, for years now, has dedicated his life to spreading hatred; he was a founding member of the Canadian offshoot of Atomwaffen, a group that has been connected to five murders and is designated a terrorist organization in Canada. What's more, Nippak isn't just a key player in building the Active Club scene in Canada—he’s helped the group spread overseas as well.

VICE News was able to identify Nippak as a key leader in the Active Club scene and a founding member of Canada’s Atomwaffen cell through interviews with sources in the neo-Nazi community, law enforcement, and researchers, and online posts sources say Nippak wrote. One person familiar with Nippak’s white-supremacist organizing told VICE News he’s obsessed with spreading neo-Nazism.

“This is his life,” this person, who was granted anonymity because of fear of safety, says.”It’s all he does.” 
#fcknzs #canada #ActiveClub #estonia #AtomWaffen #Rundo #TheBase #Hammerskins #BloodAndHonour

https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxjban/meet-the-entrepreneur-of-hate-behind-the-rise-of-canadian-neo-nazi-fight-clubs

Detailed rundown of a leading Canadian and international neo-Nazi organizer and his far flung network

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Nippak is a 25-year-old Ontario man who, for years now, has dedicated his life to spreading hatred; he was a founding member of the Canadian offshoot of Atomwaffen, a group that has been connected to five murders and is designated a terrorist organization in Canada. What's more, Nippak isn't just a key player in building the Active Club scene in Canada—he’s helped the group spread overseas as well.

VICE News was able to identify Nippak as a key leader in the Active Club scene and a founding member of Canada’s Atomwaffen cell through interviews with sources in the neo-Nazi community, law enforcement, and researchers, and online posts sources say Nippak wrote. One person familiar with Nippak’s white-supremacist organizing told VICE News he’s obsessed with spreading neo-Nazism.

“This is his life,” this person, who was granted anonymity because of fear of safety, says.”It’s all he does.” 
#fcknzs #canada #ActiveClub #estonia #AtomWaffen #Rundo #TheBase #Hammerskins #BloodAndHonour

https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxjban/meet-the-entrepreneur-of-hate-behind-the-rise-of-canadian-neo-nazi-fight-clubs

6/10 Auch der #BloodandHonour-Musiker Tobias „Bienenmann“ Winter aus #Saalfeld, der lange in Kahla wohnte, ist regelmäßig im Garten der Bütows zu Gast. Winter war mit dem Ehepaar Bütow zusammen beim „FN Kahla“ aktiv und wirbt bis heute offensiv für die Solidarität mit Ralf Wohlleben.

6/10 Auch der #BloodandHonour-Musiker Tobias „Bienenmann“ Winter aus #Saalfeld, der lange in Kahla wohnte, ist regelmäßig im Garten der Bütows zu Gast. Winter war mit dem Ehepaar Bütow zusammen beim „FN Kahla“ aktiv und wirbt bis heute offensiv für die Solidarität mit Ralf Wohlleben.

Former Labour Party chair Jeremy Corbyn has written a letter to Home Secretary Suella Braverman about allowing Spanish neo-Nazi Isabel Medina Peralta into the UK. He's right to complain about it, of course, and there's no good reason why Peralta should've been let in. But as damning as his letter is, I think he actually doesn't go far enough and partly misses the point about why Peralta is a dangerous figure and why she should be banned everywhere.

Corbyn argues, correctly, that she's a vicious antisemite and stresses that she was detained in Frankfurt for possession of "a swastika flag, neo-Nazi propaganda leaflets and a copy of 'Mein Kampf'". Bad enough, right? Her own personal website, in both Spanish and English, identifies her in big letters, right at the top, as "Isabel Peralta -- National socialist -- My honour is loyalty", applying a translation of the old SS slogan "Meine Ehre heisst Treue". So there's really no second guessing who she is and what she believes in, if you take just a few seconds to look her up.

But just being a lone Nazi is one thing. Peralta is something even worse. She's a growing international figure working to build an international network of neo-Nazis across Europe. Her own group, Bastión Frontal, has been around for three years and is made up largely of young members of the Falange Española (which still exists!) and Hogar Social, a knock-off of Italy's CasaPound that's largely defunct now. The whole reason she was in Frankfurt is because she was given a kind of "scholarship" by neo-Nazi microparty III. Weg (Third Path) to get some training from them. (Incidentally, Searchlight reports that members of III. Weg were apparently also in the UK for the same event Peralta was speaking at -- by all means, they should also be banned everywhere and hounded any time they show their faces.) Bastión Frontal's social media boasts of its connections with Poland's National Radical Camp (ONR) and Tenesoun in France (a successor group of the banned Bastion Social). I've definitely seen at least one video implying a connection between Bastión Frontal and a group in Ukraine, but I can't find it now, and I haven't seen any further evidence of contact between them. And, of course, Peralta's contacts now include people from the UK's Patriotic Alternative, Blood & Honour, and even the Creativity Movement.

At any rate, it's really dangerous when these kinds of radical reactionary and neo-Nazi groups organize internationally to share ideas, contacts, rhetoric, tactics, and training. In addition to allowing them to build support for one another, it's also a kind of propaganda coup that allows otherwise marginal groups to present themselves as representing a much larger constituency. Bastión Frontal claims a membership in the low 100s -- hardly a mass movement unto themselves -- but through slick video production and the stated support of international groups, they can also claim to be pan-European and assert a kind of authority in pursuit of additional recruits. And all in the service of, in Peralta's own words, "normalizing National Socialism".

Peralta is now banned from entering Germany, and for good reason. The problem with a person like her isn't just that she's a hateful scumfuck, but that she's an organized, networked hateful scumfuck. People like her need to be impeded and combated at every opportunity.

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/home-secretary-faces-uproar-over-entry-spanish-neo-nazi-far-right-extremist-britain-1719878

#isabelperalta #iiiweg #patrioticalternative #bloodandhonour #fcknzs #bastionfrontal #tenesoun #ONR

Former Labour Party chair Jeremy Corbyn has written a letter to Home Secretary Suella Braverman about allowing Spanish neo-Nazi Isabel Medina Peralta into the UK. He's right to complain about it, of course, and there's no good reason why Peralta should've been let in. But as damning as his letter is, I think he actually doesn't go far enough and partly misses the point about why Peralta is a dangerous figure and why she should be banned everywhere.

Corbyn argues, correctly, that she's a vicious antisemite and stresses that she was detained in Frankfurt for possession of "a swastika flag, neo-Nazi propaganda leaflets and a copy of 'Mein Kampf'". Bad enough, right? Her own personal website, in both Spanish and English, identifies her in big letters, right at the top, as "Isabel Peralta -- National socialist -- My honour is loyalty", applying a translation of the old SS slogan "Meine Ehre heisst Treue". So there's really no second guessing who she is and what she believes in, if you take just a few seconds to look her up.

But just being a lone Nazi is one thing. Peralta is something even worse. She's a growing international figure working to build an international network of neo-Nazis across Europe. Her own group, Bastión Frontal, has been around for three years and is made up largely of young members of the Falange Española (which still exists!) and Hogar Social, a knock-off of Italy's CasaPound that's largely defunct now. The whole reason she was in Frankfurt is because she was given a kind of "scholarship" by neo-Nazi microparty III. Weg (Third Path) to get some training from them. (Incidentally, Searchlight reports that members of III. Weg were apparently also in the UK for the same event Peralta was speaking at -- by all means, they should also be banned everywhere and hounded any time they show their faces.) Bastión Frontal's social media boasts of its connections with Poland's National Radical Camp (ONR) and Tenesoun in France (a successor group of the banned Bastion Social). I've definitely seen at least one video implying a connection between Bastión Frontal and a group in Ukraine, but I can't find it now, and I haven't seen any further evidence of contact between them. And, of course, Peralta's contacts now include people from the UK's Patriotic Alternative, Blood & Honour, and even the Creativity Movement.

At any rate, it's really dangerous when these kinds of radical reactionary and neo-Nazi groups organize internationally to share ideas, contacts, rhetoric, tactics, and training. In addition to allowing them to build support for one another, it's also a kind of propaganda coup that allows otherwise marginal groups to present themselves as representing a much larger constituency. Bastión Frontal claims a membership in the low 100s -- hardly a mass movement unto themselves -- but through slick video production and the stated support of international groups, they can also claim to be pan-European and assert a kind of authority in pursuit of additional recruits. And all in the service of, in Peralta's own words, "normalizing National Socialism".

Peralta is now banned from entering Germany, and for good reason. The problem with a person like her isn't just that she's a hateful scumfuck, but that she's an organized, networked hateful scumfuck. People like her need to be impeded and combated at every opportunity.

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/home-secretary-faces-uproar-over-entry-spanish-neo-nazi-far-right-extremist-britain-1719878

#isabelperalta #iiiweg #patrioticalternative #bloodandhonour #fcknzs #bastionfrontal #tenesoun #ONR

Another good analysis of the ban/raids on the Hammerskins in Germany.

As far as what kind of effect this will have on the kind of work that the Hammerskins were doing in Germany -- mostly organizing concerts and festivals, running record labels, and organizing martial arts competitions -- things have certainly gotten more complicated for them in the short term. There are several concerts and festivals that had already been announced for the fall and winter, and it's unclear whether or not they'll actually happen now. However, it remains to be seen whether or not other organizations will pick up the slack. One possible candidate is the Aryan Brotherhood, which also exists in Germany.

None of the people interviewed for this article are convinced that "Rechtsrock" (described here as any music "made by the extreme right for the extreme right") is by any means finished. It's an industry worth millions annually, and it's an important site of scene cohesion and recruiting. There aren't a lot of concrete figures for the money it brings in, but a 2014 report estimated that the far-right music scene in the state of Saxony alone amassed 3.5 million Euros in 2012. Meanwhile, a report from earlier this year by the national intelligence services described the scene as serving an identity-forming function and making it possible particularly for young people to be introduced to far-right ideology. The report counts a total of 257 Rechtsrock events across Germany in 2022.

The people interviewed here echo the opinions in the article I posted previously that the steps taken against the Hammerskins should have been taken years ago, and should have gone further. Apparently the Hammerskins weren't banned in 2000 along with Blood and Honour because the intelligence services had too many informants among the Hammerskins and didn't want to give that up. [Incidentally, this is an unfortunate pattern. Not only did the BfV (roughly the German equivalent to the FBI or MI5) keep a number of supporters of the NSU murderers on payroll throughout their decade-long killing spree, but it also had so many informants among leading figures in the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party (NPD) that an attempt to get the party banned failed in court on procedural grounds in 2003, despite the party's obviously neo-Nazi orientation.]

The interviewees also criticized the highly selective nature of the raids, and one former neo-Nazi suspects that the rest of the Hammerskins in Germany will just slink off and join other organizations so they can keep doing what they've been doing.

https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/hammerskins-verbot-rechtsrock-100.html

#hammerskins #bloodandhonour #NPD

Another good analysis of the ban/raids on the Hammerskins in Germany.

As far as what kind of effect this will have on the kind of work that the Hammerskins were doing in Germany -- mostly organizing concerts and festivals, running record labels, and organizing martial arts competitions -- things have certainly gotten more complicated for them in the short term. There are several concerts and festivals that had already been announced for the fall and winter, and it's unclear whether or not they'll actually happen now. However, it remains to be seen whether or not other organizations will pick up the slack. One possible candidate is the Aryan Brotherhood, which also exists in Germany.

None of the people interviewed for this article are convinced that "Rechtsrock" (described here as any music "made by the extreme right for the extreme right") is by any means finished. It's an industry worth millions annually, and it's an important site of scene cohesion and recruiting. There aren't a lot of concrete figures for the money it brings in, but a 2014 report estimated that the far-right music scene in the state of Saxony alone amassed 3.5 million Euros in 2012. Meanwhile, a report from earlier this year by the national intelligence services described the scene as serving an identity-forming function and making it possible particularly for young people to be introduced to far-right ideology. The report counts a total of 257 Rechtsrock events across Germany in 2022.

The people interviewed here echo the opinions in the article I posted previously that the steps taken against the Hammerskins should have been taken years ago, and should have gone further. Apparently the Hammerskins weren't banned in 2000 along with Blood and Honour because the intelligence services had too many informants among the Hammerskins and didn't want to give that up. [Incidentally, this is an unfortunate pattern. Not only did the BfV (roughly the German equivalent to the FBI or MI5) keep a number of supporters of the NSU murderers on payroll throughout their decade-long killing spree, but it also had so many informants among leading figures in the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party (NPD) that an attempt to get the party banned failed in court on procedural grounds in 2003, despite the party's obviously neo-Nazi orientation.]

The interviewees also criticized the highly selective nature of the raids, and one former neo-Nazi suspects that the rest of the Hammerskins in Germany will just slink off and join other organizations so they can keep doing what they've been doing.

https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/hammerskins-verbot-rechtsrock-100.html

#hammerskins #bloodandhonour #NPD

Some good commentary on Germany’s Hammerskins ban and the accompanying raids. The main question this article raises is: Why now? Blood & Honour has been banned in Germany since 2000 and Combat 18 was finally banned in 2020. Particularly given that all three had connections with the National Socialist Underground (NSU), which murdered 10 people, bombed several buildings, and generally terrorized non-white people across the country between 2000 and the group’s demise in 2011, this ban is very long overdue, yet right now is sort of a random moment for this to happen.

In particular, the author asks why leading figures in the Hammerskins’ music business in the states of Bremen and Lower Saxony weren’t raided. Their homes would have likely unearthed useful evidence. The fact that they were left alone raises questions about just how coordinated the police really were in different locations around the country. It also stirs suspicion that the ban and the connected raids may actually have been rushed and incomplete, despite the late date.

One curious facet of all of this is that Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (a Social Democrat) is currently up for reelection. She is responsible for imposing the ban.

The questions raised here can’t really be answered except by the Ministry of the Interior, but in any event, the author concludes that, while yesterday was a bad day for the Hammerskins, it nonetheless wasn’t necessarily a shining moment for the authorities involved.

https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/hammerskins-verbot-kommentar-100.html

#hammerskins #bloodandhonour #combat18 #c18 #fcknzs #weprotectus

Some good commentary on Germany’s Hammerskins ban and the accompanying raids. The main question this article raises is: Why now? Blood & Honour has been banned in Germany since 2000 and Combat 18 was finally banned in 2020. Particularly given that all three had connections with the National Socialist Underground (NSU), which murdered 10 people, bombed several buildings, and generally terrorized non-white people across the country between 2000 and the group’s demise in 2011, this ban is very long overdue, yet right now is sort of a random moment for this to happen.

In particular, the author asks why leading figures in the Hammerskins’ music business in the states of Bremen and Lower Saxony weren’t raided. Their homes would have likely unearthed useful evidence. The fact that they were left alone raises questions about just how coordinated the police really were in different locations around the country. It also stirs suspicion that the ban and the connected raids may actually have been rushed and incomplete, despite the late date.

One curious facet of all of this is that Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (a Social Democrat) is currently up for reelection. She is responsible for imposing the ban.

The questions raised here can’t really be answered except by the Ministry of the Interior, but in any event, the author concludes that, while yesterday was a bad day for the Hammerskins, it nonetheless wasn’t necessarily a shining moment for the authorities involved.

https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/hammerskins-verbot-kommentar-100.html

#hammerskins #bloodandhonour #combat18 #c18 #fcknzs #weprotectus

4/8 Oertel war z.B. ein Jahr nach dem Untertauchen des Kerntrios neben dem #NSU-Helfer Holger Gerlach auf einem #BloodandHonour-Konzert in #Hildesheim. Im selben Jahr gründete er mit Kameradschaftsmitgliedern die „Burschenschaft Normannia zu Jena“.

4/8 Oertel war z.B. ein Jahr nach dem Untertauchen des Kerntrios neben dem #NSU-Helfer Holger Gerlach auf einem #BloodandHonour-Konzert in #Hildesheim. Im selben Jahr gründete er mit Kameradschaftsmitgliedern die „Burschenschaft Normannia zu Jena“.

@antifaticker

Am Samstag lief bei den #Identitären ein Anhänger der serbischen #BloodandHonour-Division "Club 28" mit, wie sein Halstattoo und das serbisch-nationalistische Shirt des Begleiters verraten.
Zum Vergleich deren Banner+Mütze in Budapest am 9.2.2020 (Recherchenetzwerk Berlin). #w2907

Fotos aus Wien von Thomas Witzgall:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/124471633@N05/sets/72177720310112301/

@antifaticker

Am Samstag lief bei den #Identitären ein Anhänger der serbischen #BloodandHonour-Division "Club 28" mit, wie sein Halstattoo und das serbisch-nationalistische Shirt des Begleiters verraten.
Zum Vergleich deren Banner+Mütze in Budapest am 9.2.2020 (Recherchenetzwerk Berlin). #w2907

Fotos aus Wien von Thomas Witzgall:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/124471633@N05/sets/72177720310112301/

@antifaticker

1/2 Im "Flieder Volkshaus" #Eisenach geben sich seit dem Wegfall von #Staupitz und #Kirchheim mehrmals monatlich militante Netzwerke die Klinke in die Hand. Patrick Weber (l.) aus #Sonderhausen organisiert Konzerte mit #BloodandHonour-Musikern, Nils Budig (r.) mit #Hammerskins

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1/2 Im "Flieder Volkshaus" #Eisenach geben sich seit dem Wegfall von #Staupitz und #Kirchheim mehrmals monatlich militante Netzwerke die Klinke in die Hand. Patrick Weber (l.) aus #Sonderhausen organisiert Konzerte mit #BloodandHonour-Musikern, Nils Budig (r.) mit #Hammerskins

Berliner Abgeordnetenhaus: Mit­ar­beiter der Kan­ti­ne fällt mit rech­ten Stickern auf #BloodAndHonour
https://epaper.tagesspiegel.de/article/3d6a9e464bc74b138dfaa2d61af4a95578318546b84f72a4311f4bc40558120a

Berliner Abgeordnetenhaus: Mit­ar­beiter der Kan­ti­ne fällt mit rech­ten Stickern auf #BloodAndHonour
https://epaper.tagesspiegel.de/article/3d6a9e464bc74b138dfaa2d61af4a95578318546b84f72a4311f4bc40558120a

5/8 Mirko "Barny" Fritze bewegt sich seit ca. 2000 im Netzwerk von #BloodandHonour, mit dessen UnterstützerInnen des #NSU-Kerntrios er zu seiner Chemnitzer Zeit u.a. begann, Kampfsport zu trainieren. In den späten 2000ern wandte er sich stärker dem #Hammerskin-Netzwerk zu.

5/8 Mirko "Barny" Fritze bewegt sich seit ca. 2000 im Netzwerk von #BloodandHonour, mit dessen UnterstützerInnen des #NSU-Kerntrios er zu seiner Chemnitzer Zeit u.a. begann, Kampfsport zu trainieren. In den späten 2000ern wandte er sich stärker dem #Hammerskin-Netzwerk zu.

Auch ein Sponsoring (2021) des örtl. SC Oberlind 06 durch das Tattoostudio "P13" aus #Sonneberg, das vom früheren Kader von #BloodandHonour, Oliver Klabe, betrieben wird, ist wenig mehr als eine Illustration der Verhältnisse in der deutschen Provinz. 2/5

Auch ein Sponsoring (2021) des örtl. SC Oberlind 06 durch das Tattoostudio "P13" aus #Sonneberg, das vom früheren Kader von #BloodandHonour, Oliver Klabe, betrieben wird, ist wenig mehr als eine Illustration der Verhältnisse in der deutschen Provinz. 2/5

„Recht & Gesetz gelten für alle. Wo die Grenzen der Rechtsordnung überschritten werden, sind Staatsanwaltschaft & Polizei gefordert“, schreibt Justizminister Heiko #Buschmann (#FDP) am 30. Mai 2023 auf Twitter.

Ein Blick auf #Prozesse gegen #Rechtsextreme in den letzten Jahren und Jahrzehnten lassen jedoch Zweifel daran aufkommen, wie interessiert die Behörden tatsächlich sind.

Eine kleine Auswahl...

#BloodAndHonour #fretterode #KirmesgesellschaftBallstaedt #uvm

https://www.belltower.news/urteile-so-geht-der-rechtsstaat-mit-neonazis-um-149935/