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But my point today is that Twitter has become a huge platform for Nazi activity and many of them partly hide their purpose by tweeting other news as they slip in hatred of Jews and other minorities. Twitter, by allowing their existence, is enabling them.
"On Twitter, ISIS’s preferred social platform, American white nationalist movements have seen their followers grow by more than 600% since 2012..."Occasionally a Nazi will overtly tweet to me, like this, as they operate with impunity on Twitter.
And I've reported to Twitter with no relief. Will I continue to report Nazis to Twitter? No, why bother.
Interestingly no one involved but me realized they had linked to a Nazi. But @whittmann1948 who wrote the originating tweet IS a Nazi. In a fascinating development a long-time Twitter friend @_matilda_ then tweeted evidence that @whittman1948 is indeed a Nazi..@pjpaton guy U RTd speaks of "Jew Media" -your friend? He quotes "InfoStormer: Destroying Jewish Tyranny &Jewish Problem" Nazi Link @apk222— Naomi Litvin (@nlitvin) October 13, 2016
At first I didn't understand what Matilda meant. Then it began to become clear. The Nazis have a coded, secret language to get around laws in Germany that prohibit the use of the swastika and support for Nazi ideology (At the end of this blog the entire language code in English is provided, which Matilda has furnished to me.) Then this:@_matilda__ he even links Hitler tweets to real Nazi links.I reported the Nazi but twitter won't do anything. they encourage it.
— Naomi Litvin 🇮🇱 (@nlitvin) October 13, 2016
I asked Matilda to contribute a statement to this article and she kindly did.@nlitvin here's a German article about the secret signs & hidden #NaziLanguage https://t.co/sUMsA9D3JL— 𝓶𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓵𝓭𝓪 🌍 (@_matilda__) October 13, 2016
"My Statement is that I'm really unhappy and disappointed or even angry about the situation in Germany, Europe and America. In the last 20-30 yrs, Nazi-groups and extreme-right-wing-parties are on the rise and it seems nothing and nobody can stop them. My opinion is that the German Government is not innocent in that case. They are not willing or able to close down the original Nazi-Party NSDAP, the name changed later to National Democratic Party of Germany so they sound more 'democratic.' Since decades, different kinds of Anti-fascist-Organisations (The Wiesenthal Foundation is one of them, and diverse other groups which are against Nazis and Neo-Nazis), are trying to get the German Government to forbid the main and mother-party NPD, because since the early 90's many splinter-groups and second, third parties were funded with original members of the old NPD Party. The German Government organized diverse actions against those groups, like underground and civil police and the German secret service BND and BfV (der Bundesamtes für Verfassungsschutz) but sadly the results were unsuccessful. I'm talking mostly about Germany because for many years there were meetings in Germany organized by the NPD for David Irving and his American friends including David Duke. After they did get banned from Germany, later Austria, and a few more European Countries. So they did meet up in other countries like South Africa before David Irving got banned and in America many times. And those meetings are well visited by young people - the future Nazis in the making, it's an endless chain. It seems they will never die out."I am grateful to Matilda for her contribution to this article and for pointing out that Germany is not innocent in this matter, not doing enough to police these groups.
After my mother was liberated from Nazi captivity, and because she was a Jewish survivor who spoke seven languages, she had the opportunity to became a denazifier, an interrogator working for UNRA. Unfortunately many got through the process and lived to fight another Nazi era, thanks to the USA government and cunning Nazis able to slip through. My mother did her best but as smart as she was, there were limits as to what she was up against.
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| Edith Festinger, UNRA Interrogator for DeNazify Project |
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| UNRA Headquarters, Munich 1945-1946 |
Nazi Icons and signs
"Supporters of international extreme right make use of certain symbols and signs to show their attitude in
public. Like all symbols, they serve the fast recognition, thus constitute a
group and transnational Code. Under German law, the public show of almost all
right-wing symbols or marks is to § 86
of the
Criminal Code ( dissemination of propaganda of unconstitutional organizations
) and § 86a
of the Criminal Code ( Using symbols of unconstitutional organizations
) punished.
After 1945
symbols and signs of been Nazi ideology of the German and international right-wing
extremist scene resumed, reinterpreted in part and expanded especially in the
1990s by new abbreviations and symbols.
Species
This symbolic language includes not only
slogans ( " My honor is
loyalty ") but also the use of terms of Nazi terminology (
" Ostmark
") and ciphers
as the " East Coast
(US) " for supposedly of "the Jews" dominated
politics and media landscape of the United States, " Central
Germany " in a revisionist
interpretation, terms such as " fascism mace
", "Auschwitz mace" or even simple calendrical data (see anniversaries).
Abbreviations
The letters or numbers listed here have been
established in the neo-Nazi scene and be in this form for example: as not
criminal version of unconstitutional symbols
used or slogans. Use find these abbreviations as a print or patches of garments
such as baseball caps
, T-shirts
etc. or as a complement to signatures in texts, demonstration banners and
flags, CD
-Booklets or album covers, etc. to show their own mind.
abbreviation
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importance
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13/4/7
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stands as a numerical code for the
abbreviation MdG which in Germany
and Austria
punishable salutation " With German
greeting ".
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18
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stands for 1 and 8 Letters of the Latin
alphabet and is used as a synonym for the initials of Adolf
Hitler used. Thus, a neo-Nazi British terrorist organization named
Combat 18
, a side project of the right rock
band Sturmwehr
's storm 18
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28
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stands for the 2nd and 8th letter of the
alphabet and is used as an abbreviation for Blood and
Honour . B & H is active in many countries, neo-Nazi movement,
according to the slogan of the Hitler
Youth was designated. At the end of summer 2000, B & H and its
youth organization White Youth were banned in Germany.
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74
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represents the 7th and 4th letters of
the alphabet and is used as an abbreviation for " Greater
Germany "
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84
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Stands for the 8th and 4th letter of the
alphabet and serves as an abbreviation for "Heildeutsche" and is
used as a greeting ( "Heil dir")
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represents twice the 8th letter of the
alphabet and is used as an abbreviation for the greeting " Heil Hitler
". For example, was a well-known neo-Nazi meeting in Neumünster
(Schleswig-Holstein) Club 88
and one of the oldest US Hatecore
-Bands Chaos 88. Additional property 88 when counting down the alphabet from
behind, for the letters SS
.
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444
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Stands for DdD ( "Germany the
Germans"), this is to symbolize the unwantedness of foreigners.
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19/8
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Stands for the 19th and the 8th letter
of the alphabet, as abbreviation for "Sieg Heil".
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1919
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Two times the 19th letter of the
alphabet, thus "SS".
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191 and 19/1, respectively
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Stands for the 19th and the first letter
of the alphabet, ie "SA" (storm department).
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192
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stands for the letters 1, 9 and 2 of the
alphabet, so "AIB" for "Adolf is back"
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1488
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stands for
the Fourteen Words of David Lane
and the initials "Heil Hitler", 8 = eighth letter in the alphabet,
88 = HH = Heil Hitler.
In
addition, it can also represent 1 = A,
4 = D, 8 = Heil, 8 = Hitler.
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168: 1
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is a cynical "balance" of the bombing of
the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City (USA) on 19 April
1995. The number combination, which first appeared on T-shirts by right-wing
extremists in the United States is that 168 fatalities, which demanded the
stop, of the death of the main perpetrator Timothy
McVeigh 's face, of it on 11 June 2001 executed
. was McVeigh is said to have told a journalist before his execution:
"expressed in the crudest manner, it stands 168 to one, and he felt . as
the winner " He maintained close contacts with various right-wing
extremist organizations and had sympathy for them; Right-wing extremists
consider him one of their own.
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stands for "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for
white children" (We need to ensure the continued existence of our
people and the future of white children. ') and refers to a quotation from
the American Law
terrorists and racists David Eden
Lane . Rarely is the explanation that the number 14 stands for the
1st and 4th letter of the alphabet and serves as an abbreviation for
"Auf Deutschland". A known right rock
band called 14 helpers
, in their song 14 Words states:
"There is a phrase that will never forget! Fight, live, fight for him! 14
words, never forget! ".
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4/20
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Also 4:20 or 420. Stands in the American
date announcement for the 20th April, Hitler's birthday.
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B & H
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as it is also "28" for Blood and
Honour (dt., Blood and
Honor ').
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HFFH
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stands for " Hammerskins forever, forever Hammer Skins".
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Name a right-wing hooligan grouping (the
acronym
stands for "Hooligans - Na zis - Ra ssisten").
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JOG
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Jewish Occupied Government, Zionist or
Jewish occupied government.
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stands for "RA cial HO
ly WA r" what, holy
racial war 'is.
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SWP
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"Supreme
White Power", increase of "White Power", means the highest (superior) white power
'.
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WAR
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(In Germany, WAW): Stands for White Aryan
Resistance (White Aryan Resistance ').
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WAP
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is the recent use of "White Aryan Power" (, White
Aryan power ') in expansion and based on projecting shortcuts.
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WOTAN
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stands for "Will Of The Aryan Nation", in German: [the] will of
the Aryan Nation ', a reference to the Germanic god Wotan
.
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WP
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stands for " White Power " (white power), a motto of the Ku Klux
Klan . Later, it was by the British neo-Nazi Ian Stuart
Donaldson , the singer of the band Skrewdriver
, summarized for the Nazi and racist theory of the supremacy of the
"white race" is used.
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WPWW
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"White
Pride World Wide" (worldwide white pride ').
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ZOG
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Zionist
Occupied Government , Zionist
/ Jewish Occupied Government.
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SGH
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Unofficial abbreviation for Sieg Heil.
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Especially popular are also combinations of the
respective number of symbols such as 88/14 or 14/88. RechtsRock
- and NSBM
CDs cost in neo-Nazi acts not infrequently shipping 14,88 Euro.
abbreviation
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5
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"I
have nothing to say." (I have nothing to say ')
In accordance with the 5th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States
of America, the right to remain silent. A code for the unspoken, in which the
listener or reader can imagine what it is.
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311
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Written "3 times 11". 11
stands for K, 11 letters of the alphabet, so KKK, the abbreviation for the Ku Klux
Klan .
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33/6
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33 also stands for 3 times 11 and thus
for KKK. 6 is the current era of the Ku Klux clan as well as the number of
founders of the association.
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100%
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... pure Aryan descent.
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4/19
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represents the date of the FBI
; action against the sect of the Branch
Davidians in Waco
in 1993 and the Oklahoma
City bombing . It is a symbol of aversion to the US government.
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CI
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Christian
Identity (Christian identity). This white and Christian identity
equated, thereby simultaneously designated solely Christians as an alleged
"chosen people" and Jews are excluded, as these of the extreme
right of the animals or to view Satan
descended (see also anti-Semitism
).
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UAO
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"United
As One" (united as one), greeting white racists
formula.
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44 + 44
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44 + 44 = 88, 88 for each of the eighth
letter in the alphabet, H, so HH for Heil Hitler. In addition, the fours are written as the SS
character.
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Anniversaries
Symbolic dates have different anniversaries:
• of . 13
February
as a day of air raids on
Dresden ,
• the 20th
April
as Hitler's
birthday ,
• the 17th
August
as the death of Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess
in Spandau
Prison ,
•
the ninth
November
as a day of the failed " Hitler Putsch
" in 1923 and the " Kristallnacht
" in 1938th
Clothing and accessories
Anti-Semitic demonstrators (Berlin in July
2014) with Keffiyeh
and the number "88" as a code for the Nazi salute
tattooed on the forearm
Garments that the letters NSDAP (the manufacturer's name or
logo Consdaple
show), will be borne by the neo-Nazi scene gladly. For example, on shirts of
lettering is mounted so that with an open jacket only the acronym of the banned
party NSDAP
visible. Clothing companies such as Lonsdale
(with open jacket are the letters NSDA to detect) or Fred Perry
, however, distance themselves from such associations. In German-speaking
countries also enjoy brand shoes New Balance
a certain popularity with neo-Nazis
. The logo of the brand is seen as the reason for this, an "N" sewn
on the shoes with which the wearer is characterized as a
"nationalist". Also this association is rejected by the manufacturer.
The brand itself boycotted stores that were attributed to the extreme
right.
More popular in the scene accessories are
clean-shaven heads and clothes of the brand Thor Steinar
and Harry North
. Other well-known brands in this scene are Troublemaker
, Master Race
Europe , Pit Bull
and Rizist
. Also the originally native in politically left-wing Palästinensertuch
enjoys in the neo-Nazi scene as an expression of anti-Semitism have become
popular. The purpose of this change is to enter the mainstream of society.
Flags
On demonstrations and marches of the Neo-Nazi
scene flags are often carried along. Among the most common are the following:
• Reichskriegsflagge
: the Reichskriegsflagge there were four versions in the years 1867-1945;
punishable in the 1935-1945 version, the version from 1867 to 1921, for
example, in the Free State of
Saxony confiscated by the police at the request. It was also a sign
of the National
Collection of used (NS).
• Black and
white Red flags, sometimes with iron
cross : The colors are those of the North German Confederation of
1867 and of the German Empire in 1871, which by the Nazis and the " Third Reich
. Were taken" re [12]
They are contrary to the colors black, red
and gold , the u. A. for the March
revolution of the German democratic movement, the Weimar
Republic are today and in particular for the Federal Republic of
Germany, are to overcome the extreme right. In addition, it allows the public
connection with national socialism to be without punishment.
•
Germany Flag
: Although the colors black, red and gold of many right-wing extremists are
rejected because they both the national colors of disapproved of the extreme
right Weimar
Republic and the Federal
Republic of Germany are. However, attempts are being made to reach
the center of society and to reach people who are identified with the colors
black-red-gold but are not right-wing extremes. This is part of the normalization
strategy of some right-wing extremists. [13]
In addition, flags are supported by right-wing
organizations (such as the NPD
or the youth wing of the Young
National Democrats ).
Graphic icons
•
Symbol of a Celtic Cross
•
Wolfsangel
vertically
•
Wolfsangel horizontal
•
•
•
Variation of Triskele
Many of the graphic symbols shown here are
often used by right-wing extremists. Because they are often older (Germanic or
Celtic) origin, some of them are, however, also from non-political Goths
or neo-
used. Some are patches, others serve as ornaments (necklaces, etc.) and others
are used on posters, stickers and flyers. They are also as tattoos
worn or sprayed, drawn and engraved. The described legal situation relates to
Germany.
• Gau-Badge: also Gauwinkel, was used to rank the provinces in National Socialism,
see Gau (NSDAP)
and Reichsgau
; punishable since of 2002. [14]
• Swastika : sign of the Nazi party
, a negative sign of the Action Front
of National Socialists / National Activists (ANS / NA); prohibited
and punishable in all conceivable variants, including inverted, negative, etc.,
even (for a time) in the red crossed version, a popular Jack Patch leftist punks
. However, this changed with a decision of the Federal Court in 1973. [15]
• Celtic Cross : In the form shown here
(vertical bar and crossbar have the same length) symbol of the neo-Nazi
scene ; It stands for the "superiority of the white, Nordic
race". As the Celtic cross in the flag of the neo-Nazi VSBD / PdA
was used, which was banned by the Federal Minister of the Interior in 1982, it
constitutes an indication that an unconstitutional organization within the
meaning of § 86
, § 86a
of the Criminal Code. The use is thus punishable. In particular, in its
original form but it is also of Goth
, metal
fans and esoteric
worn oriented people without right-wing extremist worldview example as
jewelery. In practice, the use is therefore usually prosecuted only if it is
shown in connection with the VSBD / PdA. According to the latest jurisprudence
of the Federal Court
may also an isolated use of the symbol gem. § 86a
be Penal Code punishable, unless the external circumstances indicate that the
protective purpose of the standard is clearly not affected, in particular, the
symbol is used obviously in a harmless context. [ 16]
such a Celtic cross was in the 1930s, among other symbol of fascist French Parti populaire
français .
• Lambda : symbol of the far right identitarian
movement , not punishable.
• Othala / Odal rune : symbol of the
Hitler Youth and later use by Viking Youth
and the federal
National Students (BNS); Punishable (punishable at times). The
journal Nation Europa
described it in 1993 as "an ancient
Nordic symbol of ancestral loyalty." (A slightly modified version of
main sergeants of the Bundeswehr
worn as badges of rank.)
• Black Sun : A later identified as
Black Sun symbol, the SS in the Obergruppenfuhrer Hall of Wewelsburg
a. The symbol was placed until 1991 with the already older esoteric neo-Nazi
concept of a Black Sun in conjunction. [17]
The Black Sun is widespread both in the right and in the non-political scene
Esoterik. It shows a kind of sun gear, the twelve spokes as inverse Siegrune
can be interpreted. Three hooks can also be recognized within the symbol. The
black sun has therefore become a recognized symbol of the two forbidden signs.
• Victory Rune : In National Socialism
as a simple victory rune characters of German young people in the Hitler Youth
, as a double rune characters of the SS, now often used instead of the normal
spelling of the south; Punishable Like other runes
they are thousands of years of common suggest "Germanic" past. The
ANS / NA also used a victory rune with horizontal peaks.
• Sun Cross: in particular by using the Ku Klux Klan; Punishable
• SS Totenkopf [Skull], with the SS
motto " My honor is
loyalty "; Punishable
• SS symbol, a punishable offense.
• Mjolnir / Thorhammer : Warhammer, iconographic
attribute of the Germanic god Thor
. A small hammer is worn as a necklace on a necklace. This jewelry is on
"Germanic" often worn due to the receipt of the extreme right,
however, to a large extent by Goths, metal heads and neo-pagan
-oriented people with no right-wing extremist worldview.
• Tomoe are actually symbols in Japanese
Crests , but also in Buddhism
and Shinto
used. They consist of a circle in the (mostly) three Magatama
-shaped figures with the bulge form a kind Triskele inside there. Japanese
right-wing extremists ( uyoku ) sometimes wear bracelets, on which four Magatama listed so that
the inner character has four hooks like the swastika, thus resulting in a
strong visual similarity with the swastika armbands of the National Socialist
era.
• Triskele : use by the Ku Klux Klan,
the Afrikaner
Weerstandsbeweging and Blood and
Honour ; not punishable.
• White Power : uses a variation of the
Celtic Cross; In this variant punishable.
•
Wolf Angel : used by the Nazis symbol.
So carrying aides
of the Hitler Youth Wolfsangel as sleeve patch
. The SA-Standarte
Feldherrnhalle , the National
Socialist Students Federation and the armored
brigade 106 Feldherrenhalle used this sign. The Wolfsangel is to
symbolize defensiveness in this context. After the end of the Nazi dictatorship
the symbol was occasionally taken up in right-wing circles around the world. So
the Wolfsangel recognition symbol of the 1982 Prohibited was Young Front
(JF). In the context of right-wing organizations the use of the Wolfsangel in
Germany is punishable. Legal use for example, there in the arms of numerous
cities and towns, but also in forestry. [18]
Gestures
• Hitler salute ; punishable under. § 86a
and § 130
of the Criminal Code.
• Kühn Greeting : also "resistance
Greeting" altered version of the Hitler salute, is like this out of the
outstretched right arm, but using thumb, index and middle finger extended and
the ring and little fingers are buckled. Named after the German Neo-Nazi leader
Michael
Kuhnen ; punishable under. § 86a
and § 130
of the Criminal Code.
• Quenelle : from the known for his
anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic remarks French comedian on the basis of the
"Hitler salute" Dieudonne
introduced gesture.
•
Wolf Greeting ; not criminal, is the
greeting letter of the Grey Wolves
, the supporters of the fascist Turkish party Nationalist
Movement Party (MHP)
Network jargon
In network
jargon of neo-Nazi scene, the four is called Odal rune Othala
read and used as a distinguishing feature.
Legal situation
The dissemination and use of symbols and
slogans from the era of
National Socialism and of banned neo-Nazi organizations applies in
German criminal law as use of
symbols of unconstitutional organizations and to § 86a
StGB offense. Often, similar, but not forbidden, signs are selected. The use of
labels that do not under § 86a
fall Penal Code can, in part, as incitement
to § 130
are punishable Criminal Code. According to the rule of exception in § 86, para.
3, of the Criminal Code, the "social adequacy clause", acts are not
punishable if they are used for civic enlightenment, science, reporting on
events of history or for similar purposes.
In most
countries, such as the US, symbols of national socialism may be worn in public.
Literature
• Friedrich Paul Heller, Anton Maegerle: The language of hate. Right-wing and nationalist esotericism - Jan
van Helsing, Horst Mahler ... Butterfly, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN
3-89657-091-9 . Above all, "The symbolic language of the
right-wing extremes", p. 8-70.
• .. Agency for social perspectives e V .: Versteckspiel - Lifestyle, symbols and codes of neo-Nazi and extreme
right groups Berlin: rat, 2011; Brochure www.aspberlin.de aspberlin.de
• Interior Ministry of North Rhine-Westphalia (ed.):
Music - Fashion - trademark. Right-wing extremism among young people
Dusseldorf., 2004; ( PDF download
( Memento
of 20 September 2008 at the Internet Archive ) PDF Download
the new version from 2006 ( Memento
of 11 June 2007 at the Internet Archive ))
•
Dirk Reuter: Forbidden icons, a criminal investigation
dogmatic banning symbols of unconstitutional organizations in § 86a StGB
Nomos, Baden-bands 2005. ISBN
3-8329-1483-8 (= criminal law
in Germany and Europe, Volume 13, at the same time dissertation
at the Humboldt
University of Berlin 2004 under the title: the use of symbols of unconstitutional organizations).
Web Links
• Federal
Office for the Protection of the Constitution: Right-wing extremism: symbols, signs and Proscribed
Organisations (PDF, 1.5MB) as of April 2015
• Birgit Rheims: In Germany banned signs and symbols ;
On the homepage of the information and documentation center for anti-racism in
North Rhine-Westphalia
• Sebastian Little: Rune of the Third Reich
• Action courage: Extreme right-wing symbols and characters
• Birgit Rheims: Language codes. Right-wing extremist jargon iconic ;
On the homepage of the information and documentation center for anti-racism in
North Rhine-Westphalia
• . Agency for social perspectives eV (asp): The hiding game. Lifestyle, symbols and codes of neo-Nazi and
extremely right-wing groups
• Police Headquarters Leipzig: Behind the Scenes. Argumentation aids against far-right slogans
(PDF, 7.18 MB!)
References
•
Federal
Office for the Protection of the Constitution: Constitutional Protection Report 2000
( Memento
of 22 September 2003 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.2 MB) S.
268th
•
As Jürgen
Möllemann under the Strategy 18
promoted the electoral target of 18% of the vote, was on events (see Holger
Kulick:. The 18 means Adolf Hitler. In: Spiegel Online ) and in some media
about the ambiguity of the number "18" Speculated.
•
Thomas Grumke
, Thomas Greven: Globalised right-wing?
The extremist rights in the era of
globalization. Vs Verlag, 2006, ISBN
3-531-14514-2 , S.
152
•
TAZ, December
2, 2005: 168: 1 ; 11 friends 18
July, 2011: "A ban would be insane" ; fluter, 14th
June 2011: The secret number codes and ciphers of the neo-Nazi
scene
•
Action
against violence, right and Xenophobia (ed.): Black, red and gold: the symbol of the national
identity of the Germans! (PDF; 2.4 MB) of 2008.
•
Julian
Strube: The invention of the esoteric
Nazism dominated by the Black Sun In:. Journal
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