Czech ministry expects neo-Nazis to restore ties with DSSS party Mítink extrémně pravicové Dělnické strany sociální spravedlnosti (DSSS) se konal 12. března v Novém Bydžově na Královéhradecku za účasti asi 300 radikálů. Na 200 odpůrců strany proti této akci ve městě protestovalo. Na snímku je pochod sympatizantů DSSS s policejním doprovodem v ulici Na Šarlejích. published: 19.05.2011, 16:46 | updated: 19.05.2011 16:58:00 Vnitro předpokládá obnovu úzkého propojení DSSS s neonacisty Prague - The Czech Interior Ministry expects the local neo-Nazi movement to gradually restore its "symbiotic ties" with the far-right extra-parliamentary Workers´ Party of Social Justice (DSSS), successor to the Workers´ Party (DS) banned by court, it says in an analysis released to CTK. The analysis deals with the situation in recent years when a part of neo-Nazis criticised the DS and diverted from it. The ministry expects the movement to reunite based on the ideas of autonomous nationalism. The ministry registered neo-Nazis´ inclination to the DS from 2007. It says cooperation between neo-Nazis and the DS produced "a dangerous symbiosis of the political and the militant wings of the Czech extreme right." The cooperation enhanced the DS´s voter support as well as attendance at the DS-organised public rallies. It also legitimised the violence accompanying the rallies, the ministry analysis says. From the beginning, however, neo-Nazis simultaneously criticised the DS over its programme, name, logo and its public presentation. "At the time, arguments were tabled saying that the DS, with its ´neo-Nazi and skinhead" style, is far from a modern ultra-right party. It is rather reminiscent of the violent racism of the 1990s, which prevents it from gaining broad public´s support," the critics said, according to the ministry´s analysis. Although the criticism persisted, the opinion prevailed that despite its flaws, the DS is the only possible pro-nationalist opposition to the official establishment. A part of the [neo-Nazi] scene finally diverted from the DS. They came to the conclusion that the party is inflexible, incapable of using its potential, drawing a lesson from mistakes and of self-reflection. A court banned the DS on the Interior Ministry´s proposal in February 2010. At the same time, the Czech neo-Nazi movement was paralysed by repeated police raids. Simultaneously, a debate was led on the further orientation of the neo-Nazi scene. There as a crucial clash between the young promoters of the modern idea of autonomous nationalism and older neo-Nazis, mainly those associated in the National Resistance (NO) unofficial grouping, the analysis says. The Autonomous Nationalists (AN) have largely based their ideas on those of the far left, including the principle of autonomous groups without a single leadership as a way to reduce the danger of being infiltrated by the police, and the black block strategy applied at demonstrations, the analysis says. One of the motives behind the AN´s establishment was critics´ effort to distance themselves from the skinhead movement. The AN is linked to adopting new styles such as graffiti, hip-hop and punk, and it tries to attract young people. Its ideology does not differ from the neo-Nazis´, the analysis writes, citing political scientists. It says conservative neo-Nazis reproach the AN for adopting leftist elements, being too liberal and open to external influences. "The [AN´s] diversion from the Hitlerite idea of national socialism has been considered a betrayal of and disrespect for those who laid their lives in fighting the so-called Jewish bolshevism and who fought for Europe´s liberty (a reference to the German Nazi army). The intended refraining from violent actions in favour of activism and promotion (stickers, graffiti...) has been considered a symbol of cowardice and the main cause why the whole movement has been losing authority and respect," the ministry writes. The DS did not actively interfere in the dispute between the AN and neo-Nazis around the NO, but it sided with NO supporters. That is why it was not surprising that the AN dissociated itself from the DSSS at the far-right´s central website last spring, while the website continued supporting the NO, the ministry writes. "The rift in the neo-Nazi movement caused the DSSS to lose [its followers´] firm support and confidence it enjoyed in the past," the analysis says. A present, its says, the neo-Nazi movement is still paralysed by police raids. Also as a result of this, it is undergoing an internal transformation in favour of autonomous nationalism, the analysis says. This is also what the Interior Ministry says in its fresh annual report on the situation in the area of extremism in 2010. The NO is losing its dominant position. Its branches became inactive last years, it faced financial problems and sharp personal disputes. Unlike it, the AN operated relatively smoothly last year. The AN is gradually becoming the main force on the ultra-right scene, the ministry writes in the report. In the analysis, it says the DSSS does not seem to be able to transform itself into a modern, cultivated, anti-European right-wing entity. In spite of this, leaders of all neo-Nazi groupings are aware that the paralysed scene must reunite to regain strength, the analysis says. rtj/dr/pv

Czech ministry expects neo-Nazis to restore ties with DSSS party

published: 19.05.2011, 16:46 | updated: 19.05.2011 16:58:00

Vnitro předpokládá obnovu úzkého propojení DSSS s neonacisty

Prague - The Czech Interior Ministry expects the local neo-Nazi movement to gradually restore its "symbiotic ties" with the far-right extra-parliamentary Workers´ Party of Social Justice (DSSS), successor to the Workers´ Party (DS) banned by court, it says in an analysis released to CTK.

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The analysis deals with the situation in recent years when a part of neo-Nazis criticised the DS and diverted from it. The ministry expects the movement to reunite based on the ideas of autonomous nationalism.
The ministry registered neo-Nazis´ inclination to the DS from 2007. It says cooperation between neo-Nazis and the DS produced "a dangerous symbiosis of the political and the militant wings of the Czech extreme right."
The cooperation enhanced the DS´s voter support as well as attendance at the DS-organised public rallies. It also legitimised the violence accompanying the rallies, the ministry analysis says.
From the beginning, however, neo-Nazis simultaneously criticised the DS over its programme, name, logo and its public presentation.
"At the time, arguments were tabled saying that the DS, with its ´neo-Nazi and skinhead" style, is far from a modern ultra-right party. It is rather reminiscent of the violent racism of the 1990s, which prevents it from gaining broad public´s support," the critics said, according to the ministry´s analysis.
Although the criticism persisted, the opinion prevailed that despite its flaws, the DS is the only possible pro-nationalist opposition to the official establishment. A part of the [neo-Nazi] scene finally diverted from the DS. They came to the conclusion that the party is inflexible, incapable of using its potential, drawing a lesson from mistakes and of self-reflection.
A court banned the DS on the Interior Ministry´s proposal in February 2010.
At the same time, the Czech neo-Nazi movement was paralysed by repeated police raids.
Simultaneously, a debate was led on the further orientation of the neo-Nazi scene. There as a crucial clash between the young promoters of the modern idea of autonomous nationalism and older neo-Nazis, mainly those associated in the National Resistance (NO) unofficial grouping, the analysis says.
The Autonomous Nationalists (AN) have largely based their ideas on those of the far left, including the principle of autonomous groups without a single leadership as a way to reduce the danger of being infiltrated by the police, and the black block strategy applied at demonstrations, the analysis says.
One of the motives behind the AN´s establishment was critics´ effort to distance themselves from the skinhead movement. The AN is linked to adopting new styles such as graffiti, hip-hop and punk, and it tries to attract young people. Its ideology does not differ from the neo-Nazis´, the analysis writes, citing political scientists.
It says conservative neo-Nazis reproach the AN for adopting leftist elements, being too liberal and open to external influences.
"The [AN´s] diversion from the Hitlerite idea of national socialism has been considered a betrayal of and disrespect for those who laid their lives in fighting the so-called Jewish bolshevism and who fought for Europe´s liberty (a reference to the German Nazi army). The intended refraining from violent actions in favour of activism and promotion (stickers, graffiti...) has been considered a symbol of cowardice and the main cause why the whole movement has been losing authority and respect," the ministry writes.
The DS did not actively interfere in the dispute between the AN and neo-Nazis around the NO, but it sided with NO supporters.
That is why it was not surprising that the AN dissociated itself from the DSSS at the far-right´s central website last spring, while the website continued supporting the NO, the ministry writes.
"The rift in the neo-Nazi movement caused the DSSS to lose [its followers´] firm support and confidence it enjoyed in the past," the analysis says.
A present, its says, the neo-Nazi movement is still paralysed by police raids. Also as a result of this, it is undergoing an internal transformation in favour of autonomous nationalism, the analysis says.
This is also what the Interior Ministry says in its fresh annual report on the situation in the area of extremism in 2010.
The NO is losing its dominant position. Its branches became inactive last years, it faced financial problems and sharp personal disputes.
Unlike it, the AN operated relatively smoothly last year. The AN is gradually becoming the main force on the ultra-right scene, the ministry writes in the report.
In the analysis, it says the DSSS does not seem to be able to transform itself into a modern, cultivated, anti-European right-wing entity.
In spite of this, leaders of all neo-Nazi groupings are aware that the paralysed scene must reunite to regain strength, the analysis says.
rtj/dr/pv

Abused child allegedly kills neo-Nazi father

A 10-year-old child arrested for the murder of his neo-Nazi leader father told authorities that his dad often repeatedly abused him and his stepmother.

According to court documents, Jeff Hall, who died of a gunshot wound to his head, was allegedly abusing members of his family. His son claimed he feared his parents would divorce and he would have to choose which parent with whom he must to live.
When the paramedics arrived at the crime scene they stated they were unable to save the abusive father and the son and his siblings were taken into protective custody after being questioned by police officers conducting the preliminary investigation.

The fourth-grade student reportedly knew where his parents stored their firearms. According to police officers, on Sunday, May 1, the 10-year-old took a Rossi .357 revolver out of the closet and fired it at his sleeping father who lay on the living room couch.
The boy told police his dad often beatt him and his stepmother. He also revealed he thought his dad was cheating on his spouse and feared he might have to choose which person he would live with.

The boy's stepmother, Krista McCary, is being charged with child endangerment and failure to properly store a firearm. Police officers stated that not only did Hall and McCary keep numerous weapons in the home, but that three of their children knew how to access the .357 revolver used in the killing.

Juvenile court Judge Charles Koosed agreed on Wednesday to delay taking the plea from the 10-year-old boy. The judge stated that he and the boy's attorney agree that the child should first have a psychological evaluation. Among his possible pleas are not guilty by reason of insanity.
The next hearing date is scheduled on July 22. If found guilty of the charges, the boy could remain in juvenile hall until he is 18 or be placed in another youth detention facility until he is 25.

Hall gained media attention in 2010 during his campaign for a seat on the Western Municipal Water District in Riverside. During his run for the seat, Hall was open about his neo-Nazi beliefs when asked. During his tenure at the National Socialist Movement, Hall led demonstrations in Riverside and Los Angeles where supporters yelled "white power" and waved swastika flags while giving Nazi salutes.

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Document: Boy Says Neo-Nazi Dad Hit Him, Step-Mom

A 10-year-old boy charged with murdering his white supremacist father told investigators that he shot the man after growing tired of him hitting him and his stepmother, court documents showed on Wednesday.
In the hours after the shooting, the boy told investigators he thought Jeff Hall, 32, was cheating on his stepmother and that he might have to choose who to live with, according to a police declaration filed in Riverside County.
The blonde-haired boy from Southern California told investigators he went into his parents' closet, pulled a revolver off a low shelf, went downstairs and aimed the gun at his father's ear while he was asleep and shot him. He later hid the gun under his bed, according to court documents.
"It was right there on the shelf," the boy told investigators, according to the police declaration filed Tuesday in support of an arrest warrant for his stepmother Krista McCary on nine felony charges of child endangerment and criminal storage of a gun.
A phone number for McCary, 26, could not be immediately located.
The declaration was made public on the same day that the boy — whom The Associated Press is not identifying and is not being charged as an adult — appeared in juvenile court for a hearing on the charge that he murdered Hall, a regional leader of the National Socialist Movement who led rallies at day labor sites and a local synagogue.

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At the hearing, the juvenile court appointed a psychologist to advise the boy's defense attorney about his client's mental state. Deputy Public Defender Matt Hardy declined to comment on the allegations of abuse except to say that he was "exploring everything" in his defense of the boy.
The boy did not enter a plea and will return to court July 22.
McCary did not attend the boy's hearing Wednesday.
According to the police declaration filed in the case against McCary, Hall's dead body was found on the couch with a gunshot wound to the left side of his head on Sunday May 1.
In the hours after the shooting, McCary told investigators that Hall hit, kicked and yelled at his son to punish him for being too loud or getting in his way. She said he had also been violent against her and pushed and spanked the boy's younger sisters, the declaration said.
McCary also told detectives that Hall had taken his son target shooting when they went on a trip to the border, so he knew how to shoot guns, and "admitted that the revolver was on a low shelf where the kids had access to it," the declaration said.
"Those children knew where that gun was and they could reach it," said Ambrosio E. Rodriguez, senior deputy district attorney who is prosecuting the boy's murder case.
Investigators said the house located in a tidy cul-de-sac in the suburbs 60 miles east of Los Angeles was filthy, with dirty clothing covering the floors and a stench of urine in the bedrooms. Empty beer bottles were strewn across the downstairs and National Socialist Movement and California flags were hanging in the living room.
In the garage, investigators found a .22 caliber rifle leaning against a wall and an unlocked cabinet about 10 feet away with ammunition.
Investigators reported that three of the five children living in the home knew where the couple kept their gun.
The boy's four sisters were placed in protective custody following the shooting.
Hall — who said he was proud to fly the swastika and believed in a white breakaway nation — was widely known in Riverside for organizing neo-Nazi protests and his failed bid last year for a seat on the local water board. His candidacy frightened many residents in the suburban region, which experts say has seen a rise in hate groups.
Court records show Hall and his ex-wife Leticia Neal slugged through a divorce and dispute over the custody of their two children nearly a decade ago. Each accused the other of child abuse. In 2003, the boy and his sister were removed from Neal's home when her 3-month-old twins by another father were hospitalized for failing to thrive.
Hall's children had bruises and injuries but social workers could not determine their origin or the extent of any abuse.
Hall was granted custody of the children in 2004.
Last year, Neal filed for joint custody, saying Hall's neo-Nazi ties made her "scared of what will happen to my kids."
Hall opposed the request, noting the children had not received a call from their mother in six years and were now doing better in classes and participating in after-school activities, according to court filings in the custody case.
The boy was being taught at home as a pupil of the River Springs Charter School.

The day before Jeff Hall's death, he held a regular meeting of members of the National Socialist Movement at his home.

Policeman probed over 'SS' symbol on helmet Officers says he scrawled his initials, not Nazi sign

The officer insists that he simply wrote his initials on his helmet.

A policeman is to undergo an internal investigation for allegedly displaying a symbol similar to the one used by the Nazi’s SS unit on his helmet. The officer was photographed during a protest by pensioners outside Parliament. Hundreds of elderly protestors were voicing the opposition to the government’s austerity measures and its pension reforms. The Greek Police said that it would launch a probe into the officer for “displaying on his service helmet symbols that are not compatible with police behavior.” According to reports, the officer told his superiors that he had simply written his initials, which are SS, on his helmet and not the Nazi unit’s symbol.

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Athens backs villagers' fight for German compensation over 1944 SS massacre George Papandreou's decision to support claims at International Court of Justice risks row with Berlin when its financial help is needed

A Nazi massacre remembered by Greeks as one of the worst atrocities of the second world war is threatening to plunge relations between Athens and Berlin to a new low amid rising criticism of Germany's failure to pay compensation.
The diplomatic dispute erupted last month after the Greek prime minister, George Papandreou, pledged his government would support the compensation claims of survivors and relatives of the massacre in the village of Distomo in June 1944, which left 218 people dead.
No previous administration has dared touch the case for fear of tensions with Germany. "This is about history. This is not anti-German," the Socialist leader told the Observer. "It is about something that happened over 60 years ago, of honouring the memory of Greek citizens who were sacrificed for their country."
At a time when Athens is fighting off bankruptcy with austerity measures – demanded by international creditors after the biggest bailout in history – Papandreou's move is popular.
Under Nazi occupation from April 1941, more than 300,000 Greeks starved to death, 130,000 were executed in reprisals, and most of the Jewish community was sent to the gas chambers.
The tragedy at Distomo, near Delphi, is ingrained in the national consciousness. Children are taught that on 10 June 1944 some 218 men, women and children were slaughtered by a Waffen-SS unit in reprisal for an ambush on German troops outside the village. It occurred on the same day as the SS massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane in France.
Bodies were found dangling from trees by the road to the village when a Red Cross team visited days later. The veteran leftwinger Manolis Glezos, who in the first defiance against the Nazis tore down the swastika at the Acropolis in May 1941, said: "Quite rightly, and very belatedly, they are asking for €165m (£140m) in compensation." The victims' remains are now housed in an ossuary at the site. Even Papandreou's critics have hailed his response – with the Greek state formally supporting a claim for compensation at the International Court of Justice – as statesmanlike.
At a time when Athens is so reliant on German largesse, the move has left many bewildered. Berlin is the biggest contributor to the €110bn EU and IMF-sponsored rescue package propping up the Greek economy. Resolution of the debt woes will depend greatly on German flexibility in granting extra time and financial aid to repay the loans. "I don't have any understanding of the Greek decision," the German foreign minister, Guido Westerwelle, said after Athens said it would back the reparation claim. "We are emphatically sticking to our position, and are confident that our legal opinion will prevail in court."
Germany has long argued that it settled the issue with a bilateral agreement in March 1960 that gave the Greek state the equivalent of €59m in damages for loss of life, looting and "enforced" loans, including gold seized from the central bank. But the villagers have always claimed they were never compensated. Campaigners say that under the deal they were left to believe they could file individual claims at a later date. They took the battle to a Greek district court, which backed their claims in 1997, then to the supreme court, which ordered that German assets in Greece be seized (an act no Greek justice minister has been willing to carry out). Relatives of the victims then joined Italian plaintiffs also seeking damages. Last year, after an Italian tribunal upheld the Greek court's ruling, Berlin retorted by taking the case to the international court.
Visiting Athens last week, Germany's former foreign minister Joschka Fischer defended chancellor Angela Merkel ("which I never thought I would do") before an audience of academics, diplomats and thinkers who found it hard to contain their frustration with Berlin.

Papandreou insists that, while dealing with the painful legacy of a historical event is one thing, meeting Berlin on matters of the economy is quite another. "We have excellent relations with Germany," he said. "They are our friends."

Poland asks Nazi camp museums to drop .pl websites

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WARSAW — Poland's culture minister said Tuesday he had asked museums at former Nazi death camps to drop their Polish .pl Internet suffix to help counter the false impression they were Polish-run.
The minister, Bogdan Zdrojewski, told Polish news agency PAP he had written to the directors of three museums in Poland asking them to use other suffixes for their websites, such as the more neutral, pan-European .eu.
The three memorial museums, run and largely financed by the Polish state, are Auschwitz-Birkenau (www.auschwitz.org.pl), Majdanek (www.majdanek.pl) and Stutthof (www.stutthof.pl).
"I've asked them to use the appropriate term systematically," Zdrojewski said.
Warsaw keenly watches the global media for descriptions of such camps as "Polish" because it says the term -- even if used simply as a geographical indicator -- can give the impression that Poland bore responsibility for Nazi Germany's World War II genocide.
The majority of the six million Jews who perished during the Holocaust were murdered in death camps set up and entirely controlled by Germany in occupied Poland.
A million of them died at Auschwitz-Birkenau, which has become the era's most enduring symbol.
Poland was home to Europe's largest pre-war Jewish population, some 3.5 million people. Polish Jews represented around half the Nazis' victims.
Around three million non-Jewish Poles were also killed over the six years that followed the Nazis' 1939 invasion, many of them in death camps.
In 1979, Auschwitz-Birkenau was added to the World Heritage List, which covers historically important sites recognised by UNESCO, the United Nations' cultural agency.
In 2007, at Poland's behest, UNESCO approved a formal name change from "Auschwitz Concentration Camp" to "Auschwitz-Birkenau German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp".

Alleged Nazi dies before trial date

BELLEVUE, Wash., Feb. 2 (UPI) -- A Washington state man, facing deportation and loss of U.S. citizenship because he allegedly was a Nazi war criminal, died of natural causes, an official said.
Peter Egner of Bellevue was 88 when he died last Wednesday, The Seattle Times reported Tuesday.
Egner was scheduled for trial Feb. 22 for allegedly lying to the government about his World War II activities, the Times reported.
Authorities said Egner was a member of the Einsatzgruppen, which spearheaded German leader Adolf Hitler's attempt to kill Europe's Jews and others the Nazis considered undesirable, the Times reported.
Serbian officials also wanted to extradite Egner to prosecute him as a war criminal who rounded up tens of thousands of Serbs, sending many to die in prison camps and torturing and killing others, the Times reported.
Egner lived in Portland for 40 years before Department of Justice investigators caught up with him, the newspaper said.
Egner, who first insisted he took no part in any war crimes and didn't know what went on in the camps, finally swore in depositions he was a guard in several transports that took people to death camps.
"We feel cheated by Egner's death. This was a complex case, but one where there was going to be a good resolution. Serbia had agreed to take (Egner) and prosecute him for his crimes," said Dr. Efraim Zuroff, Nazi hunter and the Israeli director for the Simon Wiesenthal Center based in Los Angeles.

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