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Neo-Nazi terrorism sparks calls for NPD ban

National: 14 Nov 11
As more details of an extreme-right terror cell continued to emerge on Monday, German politicians promised a full investigation into a series of murders and renewed calls to ban the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party (NPD). READ »

Neo-Nazi boss to appeal to top court for hotel ban

Society: 16 Oct 11
Udo Voigt, chairman of the far-right National Demcrocratic Party, is preparing to appeal to the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) in Karlsruhe, after he was allegedly barred from a hotel for his political views. READ »

Neo-Nazis slammed for 'gas' campaign poster

Politics: 11 Aug 11
The neo-Nazi National Democratic Party is being accused of deliberately invoking the Holocaust in a Berlin election poster that shows leader Udo Voigt on a motorcycle with the slogan “Gas geben!” READ »

Neo-Nazi leader loses hotel ban court case

Society: 23 Jun 10
Hotels are entitled to refuse rooms to neo-Nazis, a court ruled late Tuesday in overturning a complaint by far-right leader Udo Voigt against a Brandenburg hotel. READ »

Far-right leader sues over hotel ban

Society: 14 May 10
The leader of the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party, Udo Voigt, is suing a Brandenburg hotel that openly turned him away because of his far-right views, a media report said Friday. READ »

Neo-Nazi leader banned from German military association

National: 20 May 09
Leader of the neo-Nazi NPD party Udo Voigt has been kicked out of the DBwV German Military Association after being sentenced to incitement of hatred and slander, broadcaster RBB reported on Wednesday. READ »

NPD fine cut in half

National: 16 May 09
Germany's neo-Nazi NPD party, already on the verge of bankruptcy, was fined Friday about €1.27 million for accounting irregularities by Berlin's administrative court. READ »

Neo-Nazi party leader guilty in racism case

National: 24 Apr 09
Udo Voigt, head of the neo-Nazi NPD party, was sentenced on Friday to a suspended sentence for incitement of hatred and slander in a racial discrimination trial involving a member of the German national football team. READ »

Klinsmann could be called as witness in NPD racism case

National: 8 Apr 09
Former national football team coach Jürgen Klinsmann could be called as a witness in a racial discrimination trial in Berlin against the head of the far-right NPD party Udo Voigt and two of his associates. READ »

500 protest neo-Nazi NPD party conference in Berlin

National: 4 Apr 09
An estimated 500 people took part in a mainly peaceful demonstration in Berlin on Saturday against the far-right NPD's party conference, police reported. READ »

Owomoyela takes on neo-Nazis over World Cup insults

Sport: 22 Mar 09
Three leading neo-Nazi NPD party figures will appear in court on Tuesday charged with incitement and defamation, nearly three years after producing leaflets suggesting the national football team should be all-white. READ »

Financially troubled far-right NPD party faces split

Politics: 10 Mar 09
Leaders of the neo-Nazi NPD party have admitted that financial problems, which led to the German parliament cutting off funding, are threatening its existence. READ »

Attack sparks fear of rising neo-Nazi violence

National: 17 Feb 09
A vicious attack at a motorway rest stop after a neo-Nazi march last weekend has sparked alarm across Germany. As David Wroe reports, some believe the far-right scene is undergoing a dangerous transformation. READ »

Neo-Nazi NPD faces power struggle

Politics: 31 Dec 08
The German neo-Nazi National Democratic Party (NPD) appears headed for an internal power struggle to oust long-term leader Udo Voigt. READ »

Passau police chief released from hospital

Society: 19 Dec 08
Almost a week after what appears to have been a revenge attack by neo-Nazis, Passau police chief Alois Mannichl was released from the hospital on Friday. READ »

NPD outnumbered on Berlin streets over Hindu temples

National: 24 Aug 08
Several hundred anti-fascist protesters gathered in the Neukölln area of Berlin on Saturday to display their disgust at the 155 far-right NPD members and supporters holding a demonstration there. READ »

Neo-Nazi exhumed to find forbidden swastika flag

National: 31 Jul 08
German officials in Passau have exhumed the corpse of a former Nazi Waffen-SS soldier in order to confiscate a forbidden Third Reich era flag placed over his coffin during his burial last weekend. READ »

Thousands protest neo-Nazi party rally in Bamberg

Politics: 24 May 08
More than 2,000 people staged a peaceful protest against a German neo-Nazi NPD national party meeting on Saturday in Bamberg. READ »

Neo-Nazi NPD leader charged for racist World Cup pamphlet

National: 25 Mar 08
Leader of Germany's neo-Nazi NPD party, Udo Voigt, has been charged with incitement of hate crimes and defamation for the publication of a racist World Cup pamphlet in 2006. READ »

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