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Annual Report of the Office for Protection of the Constitution 1999 Table of Contents Bundesministerium des Innern [http://www.bmi.bund.de/publikationen/pdf/VSB1999_englisch.pdf] Annual Report of the Office for Protection of the Constitution 1999 Table of Contents Organizational Data .............................................................. 7 1. Organizational Data pursuant to Section 16, para. 2, of the Federal Act on the Protection of the Constitution (BVerfSchG) ........ 7 1.1 Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) ....... 7 1.2 Military Counterintelligence Service (MAD) .............................. 7 2. Other Organizational Data ................................................................ 7 Right-Extremist Endeavours ........................................... 9 I. Overview ................................................................................... 9 1. Ideology ...................................................................................... 9 2. Developments in Right-Wing Extremism ..................................... 9 II. Overview in Statistics ............................................................ 13 1. Organizations and Member/Supporter Potential ....................... 13 2. Criminal Offences / Acts of Violence ......................................... 15 2.1 Overview .................................................................................. 15 2.2 Targets of Acts of Violence ....................................................... 18 2.3 Breakdown of Violent Offences by Land (Federal State) ............. 20 III. Right-Wing Extremists Prepared to Use Violence .............. 23 1. Right-Extremist Violence Potential ............................................ 23 2. Right-Extremist Skinhead Scene .............................................. 24 2.1 Skinhead Music .................................................................................. 26 2.2 Marketing of Skinhead Music .............................................................. 27 2.3 Fanzines ............................................................................................ 28 IV. Neo-Nazism ............................................................................ 30 1. Overview ................................................................................... 30 2. Neo-Nazi Organizations ............................................................ 32 2.1 "Support Organization for National Political Prisoners and Their Relatives (reg’d)" (HNG) ............................................................ 32 2.2 "Free People’s Bloc" (FVB) ................................................................. 33 2.3 Neo-Nazi Circle around Frank SCHWERDT (formerly: "The Nationals (reg’d)") ....................................................... 34 2.4 "Combat Union of German Socialists" (KDS) ...................................... 36 ÃÃ V. Political Parties ...................................................................... 38 1. "The Republicans" (REP) .......................................................... 38 1.1 Goals ................................................................................................. 38 1.2 Organizational Structure, and Development ........................................ 43 2. "German People’s Union" (DVU) .............................................. 49 2.1 Goals ................................................................................................. 49 2.2 Organizational Structure, and Development ........................................ 54 3. "National Democratic Party of Germany" (NPD) ....................... 57 3.1 Goals ................................................................................................. 57 3.2 Organizational Structure, and Development ........................................ 62 3.3 "Young National-Democrats" (JN) ....................................................... 65 4. Small Right-Extremist Political Parties and Associations of Voters ................................................................................... 67 VI. Intellectualization Efforts of Right-Wing Extremism .......... 69 VII. Revisionism . ........................................................................... 72 VIII. International Connections .................................................... 75 1. International Meetings ............................................................... 75 2. Increased Propaganda Activities from South Africa .................. 77 3. "National-Socialist German Workers’ Party/ Overseas and Development Organization" (NSDAP/AO) ......... 77 IX. Propaganda and Communications Media ........................... 78 1. Periodical Publications .............................................................. 78 2. Independent Publishing Houses and Distributors ..................... 78 3. New Communications Media .................................................... 81 3.1 Internet ............................................................................................... 81 3.2 Non-Partisan Right-Extremist "Info Telephones" ................................. 83 3.3 Mailboxes ........................................................................................... 83 4. Annex: Right-Extremist Attempts to exert an Influence within the "Dark Wave" Music Scene ........................................ 83 X. Overview of Major Publishing Houses and Publications ........................................................................... 86 ÃÃ Left-Extremist Endeavours ............................................ 87 I. Overview ................................................................................. 89 Left-Extremist Developments ........................................................... 89 II. Overview in Statistics ............................................................ 91 1. Organizations and Members/Supporters .................................. 91 2. Criminal Offences / Acts of Violence ......................................... 93 III. Violent Left-Wing Extremism ................................................ 99 1. Autonomists ............................................................................ 100 2. Other Militant Left-Extremists .................................................. 105 IV. Political Parties and Other Groupings ............................... 108 1. "German Communist Party" (DKP) and Periphery .................. 108 2. "Party of Democratic Socialism" (PDS) ................................... 115 3. "Association of Anti-Fascists (Umbrella Organization), reg’d" (BdA) ..................................... 123 4. "Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany" (MLPD) .......................... 125 5. Trotskyite Groups .................................................................... 126 6. "Red Aid (reg’d)" (RH) ............................................................. 128 7. "Young Democrats/Young Leftists" (JD/JL) ............................ 129 V. Fields of Action .................................................................... 131 1. Campaign by Left-Wing Extremists against the Council Meeting of the European Union (EU) and against the World Economic Summit in Cologne .................................................................. 131 2. "Antimilitarism" ........................................................................ 134 3. "Anti-Fascism" ......................................................................... 137 4. Campaign by Left-Wing Extremists against Nuclear Energy and the Use of Genetic Engineering .............. 139 5. Actions against "EXPO 2000" ................................................. 141 VI. Propaganda and Communications Media ......................... 143 1. Publishers, Distribution Companies, and Periodic Publications 143 2. New Communications Media .................................................. 143 Security Endangering and Extremist Activities by Foreigners .......................................................... 145 ÃÃ I. Overview ............................................................................... 146 II. Overview in Statistics .......................................................... 150 1. Organizations and Member Potential ...................................... 150 2. Criminal Offences / Acts of Violence ....................................... 152 III. Main Activities by Individual Foreigner Groups ............... 155 1. Turks (excluding Kurds) .......................................................... 155 1.1 Overview ................................................................................ 155 1.2 Left-Wing Extremists ............................................................... 156 1.3 Turkish Islamists ..................................................................... 162 2. Kurds ...................................................................................... 167 2.1 Overview ................................................................................ 167 2.2 Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK - Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan) ......... 167 3. Arabs ...................................................................................... 173 3.1 Algerian Islamic Groups .......................................................... 173 3.2 Egyptian Islamists ................................................................... 175 3.3 Other Extremist and Terrorist Groups from the Near East ....... 176 3.4 "Arabian Mujahiddin" (Fighters for Allah’s Cause) ................... 177 4. Iranians ................................................................................... 178 5.
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