SS Songs and Antisemitism: The Week Golden Dawn Turned Openly Nazi

Golden Dawn supporters wave party and Greek national flags
during rally outside parliament on 4 June.

THE OBSERVER: Supporters of the far-right party gave Hitler salutes and sang the Horst Wessel song outside parliament last week. Helena Smith reports from Athens on how Golden Dawn has taken on a sinister new tone

It has been a bad week for democracy in Athens. All around this great Greek city, the politics of hate now lurk. On Friday I got a taste of it in the tiny Italian-style cafe I frequent off Syntagma Square.

It arrived in the form of two middle-aged men, both supporters of the neo-fascist Golden Dawn – and, by their own account, the holders of university degrees, well-travelled and well-informed. Over espressos, they began to engage in an animated discussion about all that is wrong with Greece.

The first, a self-described businessman decked out in designer suit, brogues and silk tie, blamed the country's economic collapse on malfeasance, corruption and uncontrolled immigration. "The only way to teach our filthy politicians is to bring in Golden Dawn," he trilled, his eyes locked in a fierce glare. "These gentlemen are patriots, proud Greek nationalists, and they know how to deal with the scum, the foreigners who never pay taxes, who steal our jobs, who have taken over our streets."

Dismissing charges that Golden Dawn is a criminal gang masquerading as a political group, the second – a self-described government employee – said the far right was the best response yet to the great Jewish conspiracy of an interconnected banking system that has come with globalisation. "Let's not forget all the faggots and the Jews, the wankers who control the banks, the foreigners who are behind them, who came in and fucked Greece," he insisted. "The criminals who have governed us, who have robbed us of our future, of our dreams, need a big thwack." » | Helena Smith | Saturday, June 07, 2014

Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Talks about the Boycott of the Jewish State

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Netanyahu Compares Israel Boycott Movement to Nazism

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Calls for a boycott on the Jewish state are simply old-style anti-Semitism in new clothes, says Israel's prime minister

Benjamin Netanyahu has invoked Europe’s Fascist past to attack the growing calls for a boycott of Israel, comparing it to embargoes imposed on Jewish businesses by the Nazis and other anti-Semitic groups.

“The most disgraceful thing is to have people on the soil of Europe talking about the boycott of Jews. I think that’s an outrage,” the Israeli prime minister told a conference of US Jewish organisations in Jerusalem.

“In the past, anti-Semites boycotted Jewish businesses, and today they call for the boycott of the Jewish state and, by the way, only the Jewish state.”

Mr Netanyahu’s fiercest broadside yet against the boycott movement followed several meetings among senior government figures over how to tackle what Israel sees as a looming threat of economic isolation.

Mr Netanyahu singled out the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement, a group run by pro-Palestinian intellectuals that calls for a boycott of Israeli goods due to Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian land. He called the group’s members “classical anti-Semites in modern garb” whose true goal was the destruction of the Israeli state. » Robert Tait, Jerusalem | Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Nazi America: A Secret History

In a feature-length survey of Nazism in the U.S., we trace the history from the fairly
benign organization that gave structure to newly arrived German immigrants to today's
neo-Nazis who breech the borderline of free speech by using radical action to force
their agenda of Aryan purity. It's also a history of the imperfection of American
freedom.
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Pat Robertson Compares 'Evil' Islam To Nazism

French Jewish Leader: Radical Islamism Is Similar to Nazism

WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS: Following a worrying rise of anti-Semitism and terrorist threats against Jews in France, the president of the French Jewish community umbrella organization CRIF, Richard Prasquier, has drawn a parallel between what he termed ‘radical Islamism’ and Nazism. In an op-ed published in the French newspaper ‘Le Monde’, Prasquier warned against indulgence toward terrorist movements whose ideology was similar to that of the Nazis. “Radical Islamism refers to a worldview in which the work of the Divinity has to be carried out by annihilating the enemies,” he wrote. » | Friday, October 19, 2012

WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS: Richard Prasquier: Radical Islamism and Nazism: Being indulgent towards radical Islamism is being indulgent towards Nazism.” This declaration made in front of the Elysée Presidential Palace was premeditated and intended to raise awareness. It was not an emotional statement. However, the meeting with the French President took place after the police had arrested a network comprising many new converts to Islam and terrorism. ¶ While we were reassured by the determination of government authorities, the meeting was also very worrying. It gave a glimpse of the probability in our country of other networks, still dormant for the moment, which are being created or trained, composed of amateurs devoted to their own death, dreaming of massacres to provide them with meaning to their life and a passport to untold delights in another world. Words are weighted by the halo of their history. » | Richard Prasquier | Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Anti-Zionist Slogans Daubed at Israel Holocaust Museum
REUTERS.COM: Vandals spray-painted anti-Zionist slogans at Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and police said on Monday they suspect radical ultra-Orthodox Jews opposed to Israel's existence were responsible.

"Hitler, thank you for the Holocaust," one slogan read.

Some of the graffiti, all written in Hebrew and daubed overnight on outside walls, accused Israel's founders of secretly encouraging the slaughter of six million Jews by the Nazis during World War Two to hasten the creation, in 1948, of the Jewish state.

"The Zionists wanted the Holocaust," said another slogan.

Many ultra-Orthodox Jews regard modern-day Israel as an abomination, believing the establishment of the Jewish state must await the coming of the Messiah. » | Writing by Allyn Fisher-Ilan, Editing by Jeffrey Heller | JERUSALEM | Monday, June 11, 2012

Euro 2012: Antisemitic Echoes That Threaten Celebration of Football
THE GUARDIAN: Michael Goldfarb discovers an ugly xenophobia rooted in the catastrophic destruction visited on Poland and Ukraine by totalitarian regimes

Euro 2012 was supposed to be an unalloyed celebration of not just football, but also the renaissance of Poland and Ukraine, the two nations that suffered most in the conflict between the twin poles of 20th-century totalitarianism: Nazism and Soviet communism.

But a darkness still pervades both countries. On a recent visit to Poland and Ukraine, I couldn't help but be struck by it. In Warsaw, which I had visited briefly 17 years ago, I was amazed at how much the past drapes itself around the city's prosperous facade [sic].

There are massive, agonised monuments everywhere: to the dead of the Warsaw Uprising, to the fallen and murdered in the east, the martyrs of Katyn. Every step a tourist takes seems to be guiding him on a tour of Polish suffering

In Lviv in western Ukraine, a place I had never visited before, I found the darkness in people's souls. The city survived the worst of the war. Its perfectly preserved medieval heart is wrapped in a ribbon of Austro-Hungarian imperial boulevards and architecture.

But conversation after conversation with people from all walks of life reveal them looking backwards into the bleak times. Perhaps that's to be expected given the catastrophic destruction visited on the two countries, but it has led many to a world-view that is a perversion of the golden rule: do unto others as others have done unto you. » | Michael Goldfarb | Saturday, June 02, 2012

Extreme US Politics: Murder of an American Nazi
Lesley Stahl reports on the murder of a neo-Nazi leader by his 10-year-old son.

Innenminister fürchtet aufkeimenden Nazismus

'The Holocaust Is German Family History': Book Urges Germans to Quiz Dying Nazi Generation

SPIEGEL ONLINE INTERNATIONAL: German historian Moritz Pfeiffer asked his granddad what he did in World War II, and then fact-checked the testimony. His findings in a new book shed light on a dying generation that remains outwardly unrepentant, but is increasingly willing to break decades of silence on how, and why, it followed Hitler.

Germany has won praise for collectively confronting its Nazi past, but the subject has remained a taboo in millions of family homes -- with children and grandchildren declining to press their elders on what they did in the war.

At least 20 to 25 million Germans knew about the Holocaust while it was happening, according to conservative estimates, and some 10 million fought on the Eastern Front in a war of annihilation that targeted civilians from the start. That, says German historian Moritz Pfeiffer, makes the genocide and the crimes against humanity a part of family history.

Time is running out. The answer to how a cultured, civilized nation stooped so low lies in the minds of the dying Third Reich generation, many of whom are ready and willing to talk at the end of their lives, says Pfeiffer, 29, who has just completed an unprecedented research project based on his own family.

"The situation has changed radically compared with the decades immediately after the war," Pfeiffer, a historian at a museum on the SS at Wewelsburg Castle, told SPIEGEL ONLINE. "The generation of eyewitnesses evidently wants to talk now, at least that's my impression. Towards the end of one's life the distance to the events is so great that people are ready to give testimony."

"Immediately after the war, conversations about it between parents and children appear to have been impossible because it was all too fresh," Pfeiffer continued. "Now the problem is that no one is listening to that generation anymore. As a source of information, one's relatives are largely being ignored. But one day it will be too late." » | David Crossland | Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Gesetzentwurf: Israel will Nazi-Vergleich unter Strafe stellen
WELT ONLINE: Jemanden als Nazi zu beschimpfen oder Holocaust-Symbole zu benutzen, soll in Israel bald strafbar sein. Der Gesetzentwurf gilt als Reaktion auf den Protest der Ultraorthodoxen.

Der Vergleich mit Nazis und die Benutzung von Holocaust-Symbolen soll in Israel künftig unter Strafe gestellt werden. Einen entsprechenden Gesetzentwurf wolle die Regierung am Mittwoch im Parlament vorlegen, berichtete die Zeitung “Haaretz".

Die Initiative kam gut eine Woche, nachdem sich in Jerusalem ultraorthodoxe Juden bei einer Demonstration als Insassen von Nazi-Konzentrationslagern verkleidet und einen gelben Judenstern an die Brust geheftet hatten. Polizisten wurden als Nazis beschimpft. Dies war als Missbrauch des Holocausts auf scharfe Kritik gestoßen. » | dpa/dapd/AFP/fas | Mittwoch 11. Januar 2012

New Nazi Party for Egypt
IPT: Egyptian leftist news portal Al-Badeel reports that a group of Egyptian activists will form a Nazi party for upcoming elections. The Egyptian Nazi group claims it will bring together prominent figures and ex-military officers, to promote fascist single-party rule.

Founding member Emad Abdel Sattar summed up the group's belief in single-party rule. The party "believes in vesting all powers in the president after selecting him or her carefully," and within the party "preparations are under way to choose the most competent person to represent the party." The appeal of authoritarianism comes from recent chaos in the streets, burning Coptic churches by Salafi Muslims, and random violence against civilians, according to the report. » | IPT News | Friday, May 27, 2011

Nationalists Attack WWII Veterans and Russian Diplomats in W. Ukraine

RUSSIA TODAY: Moscow wants Ukraine to punish nationalists: Ukrainian authorities must bring to account nationalists who staged provocations on Victory Day in Lvov and other cities in Western Ukraine, stated the head of the State Duma Committee for CIS Affairs, Liberal Democrats MP Aleksey Ostrovsky. » | Aleksandr Mazurkevich | RIA Novosti | Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Lost Generation: Ignorance of Youth Proves Fertile Ground for Neo-Nazism

Geert Wilders Steps Up Anti-Islam Rhetoric
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Geert Wilders has stepped up his anti-Islam rhetoric by describing the Prophet Mohammed as an "insane, paedophile, rapist murderer" just two weeks before the opening of his trial on charges of inciting race hatred.

The leader of hard-Right Dutch Freedom Party will be prosecuted in an Amsterdam court on April 13 for previous comparisons of Islam to Nazism.

On Thursday he fuelled the controversy surrounding his anti-Muslim politics and trial by publishing an article citing academics who accuse Islam's founder of crimes ranging from child rape to murder.

"The historical Mohammad was the savage leader of a gang of robbers from Medina. Without scruples they looted, raped and murdered," Mr Wilders claimed in the Dutch magazine HP/De Tijd.

In the article, Mr Wilders, whose Freedom Party MPs control the balance of power in the Dutch parliament, attacked fines levied on an Austrian feminist "for insulting a religion by calling Mohammad a paedophile".

"However, that is the truth," he wrote, citing the Muslim prophet's consummation of a marriage to a wife who claimed she was a child aged nine at the time. » | Bruno Waterfield | Thursday, March 31, 2011

A Simon Wiesenthal Center Production: Walking With Destiny

Nazi Doctor's Egyptian Escape
THE NEW YORK TIMES: The most wanted at large Nazi doctor fled to Cairo, where he converted to Islam, changed his name and apparently died in 1992.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES: Uncovering Lost Path of the Most Wanted Nazi: CAIRO — Even in old age the imposingly tall, athletic German known to locals as Tarek Hussein Farid maintained the discipline to walk some 15 miles each day through the busy streets of Egypt’s capital. He walked to the world-renowned Al Azhar mosque here, where he converted to Islam, and to the ornate J. Groppi Cafe downtown, where he ordered the chocolate cakes he sent to friends and bought the bonbons he gave to their children, who called him Uncle Tarek. >>> Souad Mekhennet and Nicholas Kulish | Wednesday, February 04, 2009

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Pope Visit: Benedict Pays Tribute to Britain’s Sacrifices in Fighting Nazis
THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH: Britain’s “courageous resistance” to the “evil ideology” of Nazism was honoured by the Pope as he spoke to a crowd of more than 50,000 in Birmingham.



Benedict XVI said it was “deeply moving” to recall the sacrifices made by Britons during the Second World War and paid particular tribute to nearby Coventry, which was heavily bombed during the Battle of Britain 70 years ago.

Speaking at the Beatification Mass for Cardinal John Henry Newman in Cofton Park, near where the Victorian theologian was buried, the Pope said the destruction of the conflict should be remembered with “shame and horror”.

His words were particularly significant given controversy over his own wartime record. As a 14 year-old growing up in Germany, the then Joseph Ratzinger was drafted into the Hitler Youth and later enlisted in the anti-aircraft corps. >>> Martin Beckford | Sunday, September 19, 2010

Pope Likens the Rise of Atheism in Britain to the Nazis as He Admits His 'Shock and Sadness' Over Abuse Scandal
Pope Benedict XVI. Photo: Mail Online
'Search for him [Jesus Christ], know him and love him, and he will set you free from slavery to the glittering but superficial existence frequently proposed by today's society. Put aside what is worthless and learn of your own dignity as children of God.' – Pope Benedict XVI, Bellahouston Park, Scotland
MAIL ONLINE: Pope addresses 65,000 Catholics at open-air Mass in Glasgow / Queen and Prince Philip welcome Pope in Scotland / He invokes Nazi Germany in attack on 'atheist extremism' / Aide axed from trip after ill-judged comments about UK / Pope: 'I was shocked and saddened by sex abuse scandal' / Staunch Catholic Susan Boyle sings ahead of Papal Mass

The Pope tonight urged Catholics to speak out in defence of their faith amid a 'dictatorship of relativism' which 'threatens to obscure the unchanging truth about man's nature, his destiny and his ultimate good'.

Speaking to a crowd of 65,000 in Glasgow's Bellahouston Park, Benedict XVI argued that the 'evangelisation of culture is all the more important in our times'.

Just hours earlier he had controversially likened the rise of atheism in Britain to Nazi Germany and warned against 'aggressive forms of secularism' as he began his historic state visit.

Risking sparking a new row after one of his aides likened the UK to the 'Third World', the former member of the Hitler Youth invoked Nazi Germany in an attack on 'atheist extremism'.

Tonight he addressed the crowd from almost exactly the same spot in Bellahouston Park as Pope John Paul II in 1982 - albeit to a much smaller crowd of 65,000, compared to 250,000 then.

The 1982 gathering was the largest crowd in Scottish history.

Pope Benedict said: 'The evangelisation of culture is all the more important in our times, when a "dictatorship of relativism" threatens to obscure the unchanging truth about man's nature, his destiny and his ultimate good.

'There are some who now seek to exclude religious belief from public discourse, to privatise it or even to paint it as a threat to equality and liberty.

'Yet religion is in fact a guarantee of authentic liberty and respect, leading us to look upon every person as a brother or sister.

'For this reason I appeal in particular to you, the lay faithful, in accordance with your baptismal calling and mission, not only to be examples of faith in public, but also to put the case for the promotion of faith's wisdom and vision in the public forum.

'Society today needs clear voices which propose our right to live, not in a jungle of self-destructive and arbitrary freedoms, but in a society which works for the true welfare of its citizens and offers them guidance and protection in the face of their weakness and fragility. Read on and comment >>> Daily Mail Reporter | Thursday, September 16, 2010