Three FAZ Press Reports + Statement From Pamyat (Russian Fascists) on NPD at end. -J. Right-Wing March Spills Over Into Violence ============================== BERLIN. A march by right-wing extremists in Berlin on Saturday sparked violent confrontations with leftist counterdemonstrators. Police ultimately separated the two groups using water cannons and truncheons. About 1,400 far-right supporters converged on the capital to protest government plans to outlaw the right-wing extremist National Democratic Party. Police in riot gear escorted the marchers on their route to Alexanderplatz, a central square, where leftist protesters blocked their way, showering them with insults, rocks and bottles. While moving against the leftists, police broke up the march and put participants on trains headed out of the city. Three far-right activists were arrested. German politicians and Jewish leaders have been preoccupied for months with how to combat attacks on foreigners and other minorities. Neo-Nazis have been blamed for at least three deaths this year, including the fatal beating of a Mozambican in June. Last week, police revealed that the 1997 death of a 6-year-old boy in a swimming pool in an eastern town may have been a neo-Nazi killing, and not a drowning as originally claimed by local authorities. (AP) November 26 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 2000 ________________________________________________________________________ Police Investigate Suspects' Alibis In Boy's Death ================================= By Peter Carstens DRESDEN. Dresden's public prosecutor is investigating the alibi of one of three young people arrested on suspicion of murder in connection with the 1997 death of Joseph Kandelberg-Abdullah. The suspect claimed during questioning that he was not at the open-air swimming pool in Sebnitz at the time in question. Two young men and a woman are suspected of having beaten the 6-year-old boy, forced him to swallow an unidentified liquid, tortured him and thrown him into the pool at Sebnitz on June 13, 1997. All three deny their guilt. Although investigators now suspect the death might have been the result of a hate crime, the public prosecutor has so far been unable to establish whether any of the three had ever belonged to a right-wing extremist organization. The large number of written statements that Joseph's mother collected following her son's death make it clear that the murder, if indeed it was murder, might have been committed out of hatred of foreigners. Because of the possible xenophobic background, the federal public prosecutor is considering taking over the case. The Party of Democratic Socialism, the strongest opposition party in the state of Saxony, has demanded that this should be done on the grounds that the attorney general's office of Saxony had "failed scandalously." In Sebnitz, meanwhile, a number of youths who are members of, or close to, the local right-wing scene have been allowed to gather freely in front of the family's home. Last Thursday, after the tabloid Bild reported the case with banner headlines, large groups of youths with short haircuts and boots were seen in front of the house where the family runs a pharmacy. A journalist reported seeing firecrackers being thrown toward the pharmacy from within the group. In conversation, one of the young people there even said he wanted "to set fire to their shop." Several witnesses observed how right-wing extremists were allowed, unhindered, to march past the house. According to a report in Bild, they shouted insults and murder threats at the dead child's mother. A journalist from Spiegel TV reported that four youths sang a ditty that translates as: "On the meadow, corpses lie, from their backs, knives protrude with a note that says: We're better." The reporter said he heard people muttering, "Tomorrow you die." The police did not intervene nor were they observed at the scene. This changed only after a visit by Saxon Premier Kurt Biedenkopf. Mr. Biedenkopf traveled to the town again on Sunday to take part in an ecumenical prayer service for Joseph. The premier criticized the media coverage, saying that Sebnitz had been "publicly condemned," and that even if an appalling event had taken place, there was no "clan complicity." Joseph's mother is to meet with German Chancellor Gerhard Schr�der in Berlin on Monday. November 26 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 2000 ________________________________________________________________________ Nurtured Hate ========== Volker Zastrow In Sebnitz, a small town in southern Saxony, a 6-year-old child is said to have been murdered at a public swimming pool by a group of young people. The alleged motive is xenophobia (the boy's father is from Iraq), perhaps backed up by business interests (a rivalry between pharmacists). Apparently, nobody at the crowded open-air pool helped the little boy, and the police closed the case prematurely after the sloppiest of investigations. Now, three years later, three key suspects have been arrested because the boy's mother took matters into her own hands. The case has everything that could make people jump to premature conclusions. Thus, one must be especially careful not to do so. The authorities must find out what happened, and that means one should hope the federal public prosecutor's office will take over the case. Considering the racist and political background of the incident, this is quite possible. The local authorities are clearly not to be trusted. The Sebnitz police is standing idly by while mobs of young people gather outside the bereaved family's home to yell slogans and while death threats are issued against the parents of the drowned boy. Children and young people from the town have no qualms about repeating inflammatory xenophobic statements in front of journalists. They are evidently used to talking like this. Our correspondent was even told that the Iraqi's pharmacy was also going to be burned down. What kind of person instills such hatred in young people? Whatever really happened at that swimming pool three years ago -- and the evidence is very contradictory -- the fact remains that an environment exists in which even the worst is possible. The last few days alone were sufficient to prove this. The existence of this environment may be the reason for the unimaginable callousness of some children and young people, whose hearts not even death can soften. This culture of hate is by no means something inherited from the former state of East Germany, which young right-wing extremists can barely remember. It is the fruit of the self-pity, the victim mentality, the resentment and the envy that have been nurtured in the new German states for years. November 26 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 2000 ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Front "Pamyat" http://abbc.com/pamyat http://abbc.com/pamyat/vndp.html http://abbc.com/pamyat/vndpeng.html http://abbc.com/pamyat/prengl.html Nationalism Is a Defensive Function of a Nation In Times of Highest Peril to Its Existence A Statement by the National-Patriotic Front "Pam'yat'" against banning the National-Democratic Party in Germany Moscow, Nov. 26, 2000 For over 30 years, the National-Democratic Party of Germany has lead the selfless struggle for the national interests of their Fatherland and the national ideals of their nation. The heavy burden that German patriots took upon themselves in the post-war Germany deserves the most sincere respect and solidarity by all European nationalists. The NDP's example shows the entire world that the national spirit and will of the German people are not broken. Until even a single true German is alive, a true nationalist Germany will also be alive. Only Germany's enemies and traitors of the German people could hurl senseless accusations against the NDP and demand its ban. Only two-faced politicians, void of honor and patriotism, could libel the best sons and daughters of Germany, who stand shoulder to shoulder in the ranks of the NDP. Only mercenary media could pour dirt upon the just demands and social program of the NDP. When Right parties gain strength, elements of the Left become hysterical. This is a universal law of political struggle everywhere. The present German Chancellor, a Social-Democrat Shroeder, is no exception. As with any left winger, he cannot stand obvious gains by the NDP in Germany or rightist movements in other countries. Instead of open and direct dialog with German nationalists, he organized their persecution with a ban on the NDP as his "final solution." So, who are Shroeder and his clique? Are they Germans? Are they patriots or cosmopolitans? Do they deserve to hold their positions, or their proper place is in the dustbin of history? Answers to these questions are clear to those who think as nationalists, the world over. There is only one conclusion that we can draw: That the NDP is feared not just in Germany, but also beyond its borders. An NDP victory will ensure the resurrection of traditional, strong and independent Germany -- a state of the German dreams, will and spirit -- free from American-Israeli dictate. Such a Germany, however, is anathema to international forces, which dream about a faceless, cosmopolitan and obedient Europe, where national and state borders will be erased. The destiny of patriots everywhere is to challenge these forces to a decisive and uncompromising battle, for the future of their peoples and countries. We Russian nationalists are following the struggle of our German comrades with deep concern. One cannot see without heart-felt pain the tragic fate that befell German and Russian nations during the XX century. Russia and Germany, whom God Himself ordered to live in peace, were pitched into two world wars against each other. Tens of millions of Germans and Russians, descendants of a common Arian race, were annihilated in a pointless fratricidal war. We must never see this happen again. The basis for future peaceful and fruitful cooperation between Russia and Germany must be laid down by true patriots of both countries. All history is in our favor. For instance, think about the "Alliance of the three Emperors" (Russian, German, Austrian), Bismarck's maxims, and the traditional dynastic, cultural, and economic ties between Russia and Germany. Not only do we wish to announce our solidarity with the NDP and register our protest against its ban, but also we are offering our comrades-in-arms a strong and true hand of Russian friendship. The hearts of Russian nationalists will pace with the hearts of their German counterparts. Their struggle is our struggle, because we are faced by the same enemy who will meet with the same fate: disgraceful eviction from our beloved countries. On behalf of millions of Russian patriots, the National-Patriotic Front "Pam'yat'" says "no" to any attempt to ban the NDP or limit its activities in any way. We stand ready to take any action for defending the interests of the NDP and to support by any means a friendly party. Today, on Nov. 26, 2000, the NPF "Pamyat'" stages its first demonstration in front of the German Embassy in Moscow. If our pleas will not be heeded by today's German rulers and the NDP will not be left in peace, the NPF "Pamyat'" will not abandon our patriotic German brothers in their struggle to save their own homeland. In unity is strength! Patriots of the world, unite! Long live NDP and "Pamyat'!" Long live world's Right Front! Long live Germany and Russia! Chairman of the Central Council National-Patriotic Front "Pamyat'" Dmitry Vasil'ev. 1. Shroeder, hands off the NDP! 2. Long live world's Right Front! 3. In unity is strength! Patriots of the world, unite! God is with us! 4. Let the Russian-German Alliance grow in strength!
