AFP
Germany on Tuesday made a fresh attempt to outlaw the far-right National Democratic Party of Germany as the country’s 16 regional governments filed a motion with the Federal Constitutional Court. The states argue that the NPD espouses a racist, violent ideology similar to that of Hitler’s Nazi party and that it wants to overthrow the democratic order through militant action. The photo shows NPD supporters at a rally against an asylum-seekers’ home in Berlin.
Source: Spiegel
Germany launched a new push to outlaw the NPD party on Tuesday amid doubts whether the legal bid will succeed, and whether a ban would significantly curb the country’s violent far-right scene. But if the motion fails, right-wing extremism will flourish, analysts warn.
Germany on Tuesday made a fresh attempt to outlaw the far-right National Democratic Party of Germany as the country’s 16 regional governments filed a motion with the Federal Constitutional Court. But doubts persist whether the court will rule in their favor, and whether a ban would significantly curb right-wing extremism in Germany.
The states argue that the NPD espouses a racist, violent ideology similar to that of Hitler’s Nazi party and that it wants to overthrow the democratic order through militant action. A previous legal bid to ban the NPD failed in 2003 due to mistakes made in preparing the case. Officials say the new motion is more watertight.
“The ideology and the whole NPD party is xenophobic, inhuman, anti-Semitic and anti-democratic,” said the interior minister of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, Roger Lewentz of the center-left Social Democrats.
The motion cites an NPD brochure for party officials which states: “An African, Asian or Oriental can never be a German, because handing out printed documents (…) doesn’t change their biological heritage. Members of other races will therefore (…) always remain foreign bodies regardless of how long they live in Germany.”
The party also indirectly glorifies Nazi leaders including Adolf Hitler and Rudolf Hess, and trivializes Nazi crimes, say the backers of the motion.
The NPD refers to Allied bombing raids on Nazi Germany as the “Bomben-Holocaust.” Its leader, Holger Apfel, is on record saying the Holocaust memorial in Berlin should be razed to the ground.
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This time NPD has dragged AMJ in its anti Islam compaign. First it fixed blood soaked pig heads in mosque plot. Later accusations were lavied on AMJ from state assembly floor. Let us hope it gets finally banned.