Left-Extremist Endeavours

Fight against "repression
exerted by the state"
National Media Union
"Radio Germania" also on
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Committee of the "National-Democratic Party of Germany"
(NPD), and on the NPD’s campaigns prior to the Landtag elections
in Brandenburg and the elections to the Berlin Chamber of
Deputies.
SCHWERDT’s co-operator Christian WENDT, who until then had
taken a rather critical attitude towards the NPD, has in the
meantime become engaged in - at least part of - this party’s activities.
In the September issue of the NPD organ "Deutsche
Stimme" (DS - "German Voice"), he was listed as the "chief subeditor".
SCHWERDT and his periphery continued their attempts at stigmatizing
the Federal Republic of Germany as a despotic state in
which nationally minded citizens were exposed to severe oppression.
In connection with the alleged announcement by an industrial
undertaking in the Land of Brandenburg that in future steps
would be taken under labour law against "right-wing violent offenders",
SCHWERDT, in an article in the party organ "Deutsche
Stimme" of the "German National Democratic Party" (NPD),
made the following comment:
"With the slogan of ’anti-foreigner hostility’, attempts are being
made in the FRG to repress absolutely normal national
sentiments. This has even been carried to the point where
people are threatened with losing their jobs. ... If those
innumerable action alliances against the right wing do not
have an effect, then the nationally minded citizens should, at
least in the workplace, be made acutely aware of what way
the wind is blowing. The justified question as to what on earth
this has got to do with the much-invoked principles of
democracy and the rule of law, will almost get stuck in the observer’s
throat in view of such machinations."
(SCHWERDT in "Deutsche Stimme", no. 5/99, p. 4)
In the summer, during the Landtag election campaigns in Brandenburg
and Thuringia, the "Berlin-Brandenburger - Zeitung der
nationalen Erneuerung" (BBZ - "Berlin-Brandenburg Newspaper
of National Renewal") and "Neue Thüringer Zeitung" were circulated
as hardcopy for the first time in two years. Both publications,
together with four other newspapers, have formed a "Nationaler
Medienverband" ("National Media Union"); for the first
time they designated themselves as regional issues of the NPD
party organ "Deutsche Stimme" (DS).
After a temporary ban on broadcasting imposed repeatedly by
the Medienanstalt Berlin-Brandenburg (MABB - Land supervisory
authority for private broadcasters), "Radio Germania", for which
SCHWERDT’s follower Mike PENKERT is responsible, in January re-
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