NPD update

Ina “Kitty Blair” Groll, seen above in an “88” shirt (88 stands for HH, short for Heil Hitler) quit her porn career to become a spokeswoman for Germany’s far right NPD. The party removed her after they found out that she had done interracial porn:

Now, in what the German press has dubbed the “Peniskuchen-Affäre,” NPD General Secretary Peter Marx—the second-highest-ranking figure in the party—has stepped down after he was photographed at a birthday party featuring a penis-shaped cake. Marx had reportedly been instrumental in recruiting Groll, who was also at the penis-cake party. Party head Udo Pastörs described the photos as “unsavory,” which could be either a moral or culinary judgment.

In other recent NPD news:

*Deutsche Welle, June 20: Second attempt to ban neo-Nazi NPD under way

In December 2013, the interior ministers of Germany’s states, along with the Bundesrat, the upper house of Germany’s parliament, filed its suit to have the NPD banned with the German Constitutional Court. It accused the NPD of aiming to form a purely German ethnic community and destroy the country’s democracy. The suit, put together by Berlin professors Christoph Möllers and Christian Waldhoff, also accuses the NPD of compromising “trust in the rule of law.”

It is the second time that politicians have tried to ban the far-right party. The 2003 attempt failed when it emerged that there were informants among the leadership of the NPD, who had provided the Verfassungsschutz, Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, with internal information about the NPD. Some of them could not even say for sure who’s side they were really on.

That mistake is not to be repeated in the current suit, which is why all informants have been removed from the NPD’s leadership, the authorities have said. The politicians involved are now sure that the material mentioned in the suit is “source-free.” “That means that no informants were involved in the things that we included in the justification of the application to ban the NPD,” Boris Pistorius, interior minister for Lower Saxony, told DW.

* Yahoo News, May 26: Germany’s first far-right NPD deputy in European Parliament

The son of a Nazi SA assault division member, Voigt, 62, was the chief candidate for the extremist National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD), which scored one percent in the German vote for the EU-wide election Sunday.

Three years after being found guilty in 2004 of promoting Nazism after he called Hitler “a great man”, Voigt questioned the number of Holocaust deaths and demanded the return of German land lost after World War II.

He also received a four-month suspended jail sentence for inciting violence after calling in a 1998 campaign speech for voters to engage in “armed combat”.

And in 2011 the NPD stirred controversy again, with posters depicting Voigt, on his motorbike, wearing a black leather jacket, with the motto “Gas geben” (Step on It) or literally “give gas” in what some saw as a reference to gas chambers where millions of Jews perished in Nazi extermination camps.

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The party was created in 1964, notably by former Nazi party members.

As head of the party, Voigt managed to triple the membership of the NPD and has sought to clean up its public image by urging skinheads to keep a lower profile.

* RT.com, June 11: German president has right to call neo-Nazis ‘loonies’ – top court

The German top court has decided that the country’s President Joachim Gauck can call members of neo-Nazis ‘loonies’, in response to a complaint by the far-right National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD).

It follows a comment the president made to students after a German anti-immigrant party protested against a new refugee center.

The complaint by the anti-immigrant party was dismissed by the Federal Constitutional Court, the Local reported.

* Huffington Post, May 26: European Elections: 9 Scariest Far-Right Parties Now In The European Parliament

The neo-Nazi NPD has been campaigning on a platform of stopping immigration and been called racist and anti-semitic. They have fought under the banner of slogans like “Money for granny instead of Sinti and Roma” and “the boat is full”, given interviews insisting Europe is “a continent of white people” and have marched with banners proclaiming the Nazi ideology of “National Socialism”.

The HuffPo article also profiles Golden Dawn (“Its main spokesman has a swastika tattoo, and a good number of the party’s members are in prison for being part of a criminal organisation. Its slogans have been daubed on mosques, synagogues and cemeteries. In May 2012, Golden Dawn ran in Greek elections under the slogan “So we can rid this land of filth”, set up ‘Greek-only’ food banks, and its spokesman has quoted from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion in parliament,..”); France’s National Front (“Jean Marie Le Pen suggested only last month that “Monseigneur Ebola” could sort out Europe’s immigration issue “in three months”. He has regularly been convicted under France’s race hate laws, and has called the Nazi gas chambers a “small detail”…); Hungary’s Jobbik ( “I think such a conflict makes it timely to tally up people of Jewish ancestry who live here, especially in the Hungarian Parliament and the Hungarian government, who, indeed, pose a national security risk to Hungary,” the party’s deputy parliamentary leader, Márton Gyöngyösi said) and several others.