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Ranks of violent neo-Nazis go over 10,000
Published: 18 Dec 12 17:04 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/national/20121218-46841.html
The number of violence-prone far-right extremists in Germany rose in 2012 to over 10,000, according to a Tuesday newspaper report.
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Accounting for a large part of Germany's violent extreme-right were members of the National Democratic Party (NDP) – who tended to be mostly young and influenced by the underground skinhead movement or the growing fascist music scene.
There were of course politically-unaffiliated, more autonomous neo-Nazis who were also linked to violent crime – often directed at the extreme left, said the Tagesspiegel.
Yet the number of people that the German intelligence earmarked as a “potential” threat went down from 22,400 to 22,100 between 2011 and 2012. In 2010, this figure was 25,000.
This dip was thought to have been linked to the German People's Union (DVB) parliamentary party losing its place in the Bundestag in 2010. While the NPD scooped up some of members left over from the flop, it too has only 6,000 people registered.
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My pleasure:
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And it has a flourishing annual growth too!
The Klans membership probably far exceeds 10,000. Add to that the other hate groups in the states and 10,000 seems like a small number. Aferall, you can get more football fans in one place at a time than this. doc
They do. That's traditional. Hitler first built his minions by seeking out the social outcasts and the dregs of society. He offered them "something" where they could "belong" and feel welcome. As things moved along, he offered them power, something they could never have earned strictly on merit. They became the Blockwarts and minor officials who had all kinds of fun bossing other people around. Is the same thing with the Klan and many other similar groups.
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