Neo-Nazis dominate tiny German village

[Judi Lynn]

Neo-Nazis dominate tiny German village
By DAVID RISING
The Associated Press
Sunday, February 6, 2011; 7:49 AM

JAMEL, Germany -- This is a town taken over by neo-Nazis.

Wooden signposts by the main road point to Vienna, Paris, and Braunau am Inn - the birthplace of Adolf Hitler. A far-right leader runs his demolition company from home, its logo featuring a man smashing a Star of David with a sledgehammer.

Every few months, townsfolk host outdoor parties where guests sing "Hitler is my Fuehrer" to chants of "Heil" around a massive bonfire.

Jamel is the most extreme manifestation of a chilling phenomenon in the former communist East Germany: a creeping encroachment of neo-Nazism that makes Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania one of only two states where Germany's biggest far-right party, the National Democratic Party, or NPD, sits in parliament.

The extreme-right is believed to be behind some 40 attacks in the state over the past year, including stones thrown through windows of political parties and fireworks blown up in a prosecutor's mailbox. Last year in Jamel, witnesses say, a neo-Nazi punched a visitor and shouted his allegiance to Hitler.

More:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/06/AR2011020600699.html

[Cirque du So-What]

1. I thought such activities were illegal in Germany

Resurgent nazism in Deutschland: not exactly what the world needs now...or ever.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

4. They walk a tight rope on that

Come very close but do not cross the legal line

[Toon Me Out]

2. And they so enjoy...

...their tea.

[Ian David]

3. They don't like being called Neo-Nazis anymore. Now, they prefer being called KrautBaggers. n/t