Suspected German ‘Islamist’ Used To Be A Neo-Nazi

“The ideologies of far-right extremism and religious extremism are very similar.”

Deutsche Welle
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People take part at a demonstration initiated by right-wing NPD (National Democratic Party of Germany) against the German asylum law and asylum seekers in Riesa, eastern Germany, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015. (AP/Jens Meyer)

(REPORT) --- The suspected Islamist terrorist, arrested in the central German town of Northeim last week, previously expressed neo-Nazi sympathies, a press report has revealed. Citing anonymous insider information, news magazine "Der Spiegel" said that investigators had tracked down a YouTube channel and a Facebook profile belonging to Sascha L.

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German Ambassador 1933: Hostility To Jews Aimed Mainly At ‘Immigrants’

The Trump regime’s exclusion or expulsion of refugees without regard to the danger awaiting them on their return to their point of origin has some resemblance to this Nazi callousness in expelling stateless people who had nowhere to go and who lacked proper passports, having only a laissez-passer from Geneva.

Juan Cole
بواسطة Juan Cole
Expulsion from Reichsgau Wartheland. Poles are led to trains under German army escort, as part of the ethnic cleansing of western Poland annexed to the German Reich following the invasion. (Photo: Wikipedia / Wilhelm Holtfreter / CC-BY-SA 3.0)

Here are two newspaper articles from spring, 1933. They concern the issue of early Nazi policy toward Germany’s Jews. In the first, the German ambassador to the UK maintains that the issue isn’t Jews but Immigrants. In the second, it is clear that only a few weeks later German Jews with citizenship were nevertheless being forced out. Those Jewish

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German Court Green Lights Neo-Nazi Party

The National Democratic Party has an affinity for Nazism but doesn’t threaten democracy, the court said.

teleSUR
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People take part at a demonstration initiated by right-wing NPD (National Democratic Party of Germany) against the German asylum law and asylum seekers in Riesa, eastern Germany, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015. (AP/Jens Meyer)

(REPORT) --- A German court ruled against banning the country's far-right National Democratic Party, NPD, on Tuesday, although the group has frequently been called anti-constitutional. The party has been described as a neo-Nazi organization supporting an ethnic-based nation state and anti-Semitism. “The NPD intends to replace the existing

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Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ Becomes Best Seller In Germany

The bulky two-volume edition, titled “Hitler, Mein Kampf: A Critical Edition,” weighs in at 1,948 pages and costs a hefty 59 euros ($62). It was the first version to be published in Germany since the end of World War II.

Associated Press
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Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' Becomes Best Seller In Germany

BERLIN (REPORT) — An annotated edition of "Mein Kampf," Adolf Hitler's notorious manifesto, has become a non-fiction best-seller in Germany. The publisher said Tuesday that a sixth print run will go on sale later this month. Some 85,000 copies of the book have been sold since it was first published a year ago, according to the Munich-based

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Peace Activists Set Out For Aleppo From Berlin, On Foot

“It’s time to act, we’ve had enough of clicking the sad or shocked faces on Facebook and writing, ‘This is terrible.'”

Associated Press
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Activists await the launch of the Civil March for Aleppo at the air field of the former airport Tempelhof in Berlin, Monday, Dec. 26, 2016. (AP/Markus Schreiber)

BERLIN (REPORT) — Several hundred peace activists have started what they say will be a months-long protest march from Berlin to war-ravaged Syria to urge an end to the fighting there. The Civil March for Aleppo set off carrying white flags from Berlin's former Tempelhof Airport on Monday in cloudy, cold and blustery weather. Organizers said

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Germany Mulls Criminalizing Creation Of Fake News

“Anyone who tries to manipulate the political discussion with lies needs to be aware [of the consequences].”

Whitney Webb
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In this Oct. 10, 2011 file photo, a magnifying glass is posed over a monitor displaying a Facebook page in Munich. (AP Photo, Joerg Koch, File)

As the controversy surrounding “fake news” continues unabated in the US, Germany’s government has now gotten involved battling. On Sunday, Germany’s Justice Minister Heiko Maas – a member of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition – demanded that Facebook respect Germany’s strict anti-defamation laws, adding that free speech does not apply to

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