Extreme-Right politics in Germany
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Poor results for far-Right in local elections
The far-Right polled poorly in regional and municipal elections on 26 March.
1 May 2006 (192 words)
Round-up from the press Oct-Dec 2004 on racial incidents
Trial of neo-Nazis who attacked and seriously injured a punk on 17 April and beat him with iron bars while shouting 'White power' and 'Sieg Heil'. Prosecutor's office does not recognise any intent to kill or rightwing motivation.
8 December 2004 (504 words)
Hanover prince probed over Nazi salute
Prince Ernst August of Hanover was under investigation after allegedly making a Hitler salute during an airport security check.
3 December 2004 (30 words)
Republikaner don't want alliance
At the national party congress the Republikaners have decided against any electoral alliance with the NPD and DVU.
2 December 2004 (27 words)
Youth sentenced to nine years for deliberate murder of Russians
The district court in Ellwangen (Baden Württemberg) sentenced an 18-year-old youth, Leonhard S.(a minor when the crime was committed) to nine years in prison for the deliberate killing on 19 December 2003 of three young Russians of German extraction in front of a Heidenhiem disco.
1 December 2004 (92 words)
Munich Catholic radio station denounced
A decision to award Radio Horeb, a Catholic radio station, one of Munich's coveted FM frequencies has caused an outcry among critics who say the programming is fundamentalist and racist.
1 December 2004 (131 words)
Top court allows Nazis to hold anti-Semitic march in Bochum
Two hundred Nazis, mainly from the National Democratic Party of Germany and the Free Nationalists marched through Bochum on 26 June to protest against the building of a synagogue.
1 December 2004 (85 words)
Stormy Hesse debate about right-winger Irmer
The Landtag deputy of Hesse, CDU member Irmer, who has made such extreme remarks about asylum seekers, homosexuals, Muslims, Turkey's accession etc that he has provoked debates in the parliament, has not been denounced by the CDU.
28 November 2004 (174 words)
Neo-Nazi Munich bomb trial starts
Martin Wiese and three other men (all members of the Southern Comrades group) who are alleged to have planned to bomb the opening of a Jewish centre in 2003, went on trial in November.
26 November 2004 (122 words)
Brandenburg DVU involved in phone-taps decisions
The chairperson of the DVU faction in the Brandenburg Landtag has been elected to a committee which has to approve phone-taps by the Office for the Defence of the Constitution.
21 November 2004 (71 words)
Jewish leader warns of danger in alliances
Paul Spiegel has warned of the danger of the NPD/DVU alliance and the call for the Republikaner to join them.
10 November 2004 (64 words)
Far-right parties make electoral pact
The National Democratic Party (NPD) which won twelve seats in Brandenburg and its erstwhile rival the German Peoples Union (DVU) which got six seats, after the parties agreed not to run against one another, are to extend their pact.
9 November 2004 (133 words)
Fresh inquiry hope over Jewish student's death
The mother of Jeremiah Duggan, who was killed by cars in a Wiesbaden road in 2003, after attending a far-right extremist meeting, is hoping that with a German lawyer handling the case, an inquiry might be reopened into the death.
8 November 2004 (52 words)
Extremists gain support in Saxony
In Saxony's elections, the extremist National Democratic Party gained 9.3 per cent of the vote and has twelve out of 123 deputies in the parliament, only one fewer than the SPD.
23 October 2004 (62 words)
Neo-Nazis charged for Munich plot
Eight months after the foiled explosives attack on the new Jewish centre in Munich, charges have been brought against neo-Nazi Martin Wiese as the ringleader.
7 October 2004 (135 words)
NDP leader faces inquiry
Udo Voigt, head of the National Democratic Party, is under investigation by the Berlin state prosecutor for comments he made praising Hitler in an interview with Junge Freiheit, a radical weekly.
29 September 2004 (54 words)
NDP leader faces inquiry
Udo Voigt, head of the National Democratic Party, is under investigation by the Berlin state prosecutor for comments he made praising Hitler in an interview with Junge Freiheit, a radical weekly.
29 September 2004 (53 words)
Deportation of race hate victims
A row has broken out between senior politicians because of the decision to deport two men who had earlier been victims of racial attacks.
24 September 2004 (131 words)
Extremist parties make significant gains in regional elections in the East
The far Right made significant gains in regional parliamentary elections on 19 September as the country reacted to Schröder's attempts to cut unemployment benefits and end high unemployment.
22 September 2004 (435 words)
Extremist parties make significant gains in regional elections in the East
The far Right made significant gains in regional parliamentary elections on 19 September as the country reacted to Schröder's attempts to cut unemployment benefits and end high unemployment.
21 September 2004 (434 words)
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