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AS anticipated, the German government, unable to stem the tides of hatred it has unleashed with uncontrolled immigration from Russia and the Third World, is now rounding on its severest critics -- the right-wing. David Irving stated in his speeches in the country in the 1980s that the Left had replaced Klassenkampf (class war) with Rassenkampf (race war) -- cynically injecting, through the then existing Soviet Zone, Tamil "refugees" and other sources of ferment into the peaceful West German community. Now stage two has arrived, with demands for bans on the "right wing" parties. The leading nationwide political party NDP, which has stood candidates in local and general elections for decades, is the principal target. The party is legal and constitutional, and breaks no laws. National Chairman Dr Günter Deckert was imprisoned seven years ago for the offence of chairing meetings at which David Irving and Fred Leuchter lectured, and is still in jail.

Germany Pledges More Cash Against Extreme Right

By Mark John

BERLIN (Reuters) - The German government agreed on Wednesday to plow more cash into the fight against right-wing extremism after a new string of incidents raised broad concern about neo-Nazism and racist hate crime.

Excerpt: A government spokesman said Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's cabinet agreed at a meeting to channel an extra 35 million marks ($16 million) a year into educational projects, crime prevention and a fund for victims of racist attacks.

The cash, on top of the annual 400 million marks already spent in the area including projects to integrate immigrants, is also to be used to root out Internet Web sites with far-right and neo-Nazi content and, where possible, to seek to ban them.