Neo-Nazis roam Europe

The tragic bombing in Norway has made the world see the horror of extreme right-wing forces. The neo-Nazi ideology promoted by the suspect Breivik has made the world tremble with fear. The tragedy caused Norway to fall from "heaven" to "hell". In other parts of Europe, the ghost of neo-Nazis still lingers.

Although World War II is history for Europeans, the rise of neo-Nazism is becoming "increasingly dangerous".

Zlín is a small city in the Czech Republic. On the surface, there is no place more peaceful and conservative in Europe: you can always see babies being pushed in the squares covered with marble. Mothers in cars were taking a walk; in front of the government's city hall, groups of couples were hugging and taking photos to celebrate their weddings.

But such a peaceful town is always troubled by extreme right-wing forces. Just in the summer of 2009, hundreds of extreme right-wingers gathered here and had fierce physical confrontations with the police. A similar conflict occurred in the nearby city of Otyukvas in 2007. In the end, the local police dispatched armored vehicles and helicopters to quell the dispute.

In 2008, in the Litvnov district, riots by neo-Nazis not only caused trouble for 1,000 police officers, but also injured innocent civilians. During a conflict, several rioters threw three Molotov cocktails at a Romanian family in a nearby village. The flames burned three people, including a 2-year-old girl, who burned more than 80% of her body skin. suffered severe burns in the accident.

The little girl’s grandmother still remembers that on the day of the riot, a group of people drove up to their door, shouted “Gypsies, burn them to death” and threw Molotov cocktails into the room. In the end, the house was completely destroyed.

On the 69th anniversary of Jewish Day in the capital Prague, neo-Nazis attempted to join the protest march. Telescopic batons, homemade fireworks, axes, clubs and pistols were all found on the 30 neo-Nazis arrested in District 9 of Prague, the capital.

Neo-Nazis tried to march through the former Jewish ghetto on the 69th anniversary of "Reich Kristallnacht". Police in Prague, Czech Republic, successfully blocked their plan and arrested nearly 50 right-wing extremists.

The Czech police claimed that they prevented a possible bloody conflict. Pavel, the mayor of Prague at the time, also said, "I am satisfied that the matter has ended here."

Despite the numerous police checkpoints, small-scale conflicts still occurred. According to the Czech News Agency, neo-Nazis fired at the crowd with gas pistols, causing one person to be slightly injured. In addition, three people were injured during the conflict and were sent to the hospital for emergency treatment.

At the other end of the city, about 2,000 people attended a rally in the Old Town Square sponsored by Jewish groups in the wind and rain. Leaders of local Jewish groups, writers, politicians and relatives of victims of Nazi concentration camps Deliver a speech calling on people to remember history and not allow neo-Nazi ideas to rise.

What is worrying, however, is that far-right parties such as these are increasingly gaining influence in the Czech general election. In 2009, the five-year-old European mid-term parliamentary election was announced, and the Czech far-right neo-Nazi Workers Party achieved an unprecedented 1% vote share.

In eastern Germany, the activities of far-right forces have been around for a long time and have even intensified.

As early as the 1990s, after the reunification of the two Germanys, neo-Nazi organizations had many followers, mainly young people from East Germany at that time. Because East Germans have experienced economic recession and rising unemployment, many East Germans have lost their jobs. They hate immigrants and believe that foreigners have taken away their job opportunities. They have launched many violent incidents to attack foreigners.

In August 1992, in the city of Rostock in eastern Germany, hundreds of neo-Nazis gathered together and attacked an apartment building used to house refugees. In the end, the incident was classified as common arson.

There are such riots not only in the east, but also in the west. Soon, 370 far-right elements arrested during the Rostock riots traveled to western Germany and carried out violent attacks on Turkish immigrants there. In the end, thousands of police were dispatched to quell the chaos.

After entering the new century, many far-right violent incidents against foreigners continued to occur in Germany. In 2000, in Brandenburg in the east, a Turkish youth was persecuted to death by "skinheads"; in Mecklenburg, two Vietnamese were beaten seriously by neo-Nazis; in July, in Dessau, a A Mozambican was beaten to death; in Leipzig, a geologist from India was brutally beaten and seriously injured.

Not only that, in the same year, there were three violent clashes between neo-Nazis and anti-Nazis in Berlin and Hamburg, in which 16 police officers and 25 demonstrators were injured.

Most of these neo-Nazis involved in violent activities are young people between the ages of 16 and 25. They will collectively make gestures to salute Hitler, hold regular rallies to listen to far-right speeches, and even sing together, which is banned by the government. Nazi military song.

In the new century, the activities of these neo-Nazis have become more flexible. They no longer rely on large extreme right-wing parties (such as the German National Democratic Party NPD), but participate in smaller groups. “That makes it harder for the authorities to hunt them down and they become small local parties.

At the same time, they are constantly seeking to qualify for election to gain greater influence.

In 2004, in the city of Saxony in western Germany, the National Democratic Party won a seat in the parliament for the first time in the local election. “They are starting to look like an ordinary party,” said an expert on right-wingers.

"The National Democratic Party is a dangerous organization. Don't be fooled by its democratic appearance. It is the real Nazi party," said Olaf, a reporter for the British "Independent". He was interviewing several National Democratic Party cadres and retirees. Later, he wrote "Insider of the German National Democratic Party".

The book writes that the National Democratic Party claims to be a middle-class party to the outside world, and during elections, "intellectuals" and well-dressed short-haired men in the party will come forward to solicit votes.

These parties are good at propaganda to the younger generation of Germans, especially through the Internet. Their ideas are particularly likely to gain popularity among anti-American elements, anti-Islam elements, and anti-globalization elements. With the economy in recession and unemployment rising in Germany, the NPD has succeeded in winning over some radical jobless groups.