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Some 1,000 neo-Nazi protesters gather on Budapest's Heroes' Square
Feb 10, 2007, 18:43 GMT
Budapest - Some 1,000 Hungarian neo-Nazis and skinheads as well as dozens of like-minded foreigners protested on Budapest's Heroes Square Saturday.
The demonstration commemorated the escape attempt with which German Wehrmacht armed forces and pro-German Hungarian Arrow Cross Party members tried to break up the encirclement of Budapest during the Soviet siege on February 11, 1945. The protests were peaceful.
Participants were carrying the medieval Arpad flag used during the Nazi era, while individual speakers called for a 'fight of life and death' against globalization, which would 'besiege the whole of Europe.'
Among the speakers was Matthias Fischer, leader of the German National Democratic Party (NPD) in the Bavarian city of Fuerth, the internet portal Hirszerzoe said. A private citizen had registered the demonstration.
In previous years, the demonstrations on February 11 had been organized by the Hungarian subsidy of the international right-wing extremist group Blood and Honour. The Hungarian city court had banned the organization's Hungarian fraction in 2005.
Hungarian prosecutors argue they have virtually no discretion to act if private citizens register demonstrations, due to the relatively liberal Hungarian right of assembly.
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Who do you think you are?
I´m a german and it´s right that we have a lot of nazis in Germany.
I´m an antifascist from southern Germany.
Where ever nazis are marching through our cities there are protesters.
Often they get smashed or they have to turn around and go home.
In Göttingen has been a nazimarch last year.
There were 115 Nazis and about 7000 antifascist.
Please stop talking crap.
Yes,German,you're right. He is talking about a country he doesn't know.
But to talk about germany is easier as to care about the problems in the own country. You can't say Germany disrespects the time of the '3.Reich' and his mistakes. That's not true. In things like that is Germany more sensitive than a lot of other countries. And by the way....the people in Germany aren't nowadays also blame to the WW2 like people in other countries .
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The German elite's protégéFeb 10th, 2007 - 22:01:16
'Among the speakers was Matthias Fischer, leader of the German National Democratic Party (NPD) in the Bavarian city of Fuerth.'
If Germany had any respect at all for the six million victims of the Holocaust and their survivors, Matthias Fischer would not be allowed to incite racial hatred during his travels throughout Germany and to Hungary.
However, the outrageous and disgusting reality in today's Germany is that its government officials not only promote the rise of anti-Semitism and neo-Nazism but also allow German companies to transfer nuclear know-how and technical components to Iran for the purpose of producing nuclear arms such as long-range missiles that can reach Israel.
Inside Germany, the Nazi parties NPD and DVU are pursuing their anti-Semitic agenda totally unobstructed. Contrary to the outspoken anti-Semitism of government officials in the Third Reich, today's German governing officials are resorting to sweet talk while at the same time knifing Jewish people who live in Germany in the back.
The Nazi parties NPD and DVU have been legalized, receiving taxpayers' funds to promote and advertise their criminal intentions. The neo-Nazis were also voted into several Landtag parliaments where they spew their vitriolic and anti-semitic hate-filled speeches on a daily basis paid by taxpayers' monies.
Recently a German court has shown its sympathy with and support of a well-known Nazi, allowing him to carry deadly arms which could be used against Jewish targets.
Also, not long ago the phrase 'Glory and honor to the SS' was ruled legal by other German judges. Just think of it: The mass-murdering organization SS that was carrying out the Holocaust is considered glorious and honorable by German courts!
The effects on the lives of Jewish people trying to live a normal life in today's Germany are once again getting disastrous, as neo-Nazis and associated skinheads track down Jewish men, women and adolescents, terrorizing them and attacking them both verbally and physically, thus committing assault and battery.
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