http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=10767&intcategoryid=2 Jewish Telegraph Agency, January 13,
2002 [picture added
by this website]Neo-Nazi
charged with incitement, may make return
visit to German jail By Toby Axelrod BERLIN,
Jan. 13 (JTA) -- A German
right-wing extremist has been charged with
inciting hatred against Jews. The former leader of Germany´s
far-right National Democratic Party,
Gunter Deckert, was charged last
Friday for allegedly making anti-Semitic
comments in Nuremberg in August 2001. Prosecutors did not reveal his
comments, but said they echoed the hateful
rhetoric of the Nazi era. Deckert, 62, has
already served time in German prisons for
charges related to Holocaust denial. He has been dropped from the membership
rolls of the National Democratic Party,
which now is headed by Udo Voigt.
The German government is nearing a
decision on whether to ban the party for
hatemongering. Like
the other two largest extreme right-wing
parties in Germany -- the Republicans and
the German People´s Union -- the NDP
currently avoids making
illegal
statements, such as Holocaust
denial, that might give the federal
government grounds to ban them. The right-wing extremists tend to
describe themselves as victims who
eventually will overcome an oppressive
government campaign. They are not averse
to comparing themselves to the Jews of the
1930s. On Jan. 6, the head of the Republicans,
Rolf Schlierer, complained of a
"pogrom" against his party and "an
unspeakable campaign against the right."
The federal government estimates that
about 37,000 Germans hold extreme
right-wing beliefs. Along with a desire to
trivialize the Holocaust, they also blame
foreigners for unemployment and crime.
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JTA. Relevant items on
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Günter
Deckert index
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Flashback:
What the German Judges said about
Günter Deckert (before the German
minister of justice ordered their
public reprimand)
David
Irving writes: If
the German judicial terrorists
again try bullying Deckert
into submission, he -- and
they -- can rest assured that
this website will not forget
him, but constantly remind the
world of what is going on in
the new 'democratic'
Germany.
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