Left-Extremist Endeavours
Left-Extremist Endeavours
Left-Extremist Endeavours
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- On 25 August, the Deputy Chairman of the Hesse Land Association<br />
of the RJ, Peter SCHREIBER, made an appeal for<br />
participation in a "European Comradeships’ Evening" in<br />
Diksmuide (West Flanders, Belgium) on 28/29 August on the<br />
occasion of the 1999 "IJzerbedevaart" #) (cf. Chapter VIII,<br />
section 1, below).<br />
- The October issue of "Nation & Europa" carried a report on<br />
an event staged in Neustadt-Glewe (Mecklenburg-Western<br />
Pomerania) on 18 September by the "Deutschlandbewegung"<br />
("Movement for Germany") initiated by the rightextremist<br />
Dr. Alfred MECHTERSHEIMER. This event, the publication<br />
said, had been convened at the invitation of the registered<br />
association "Nation Europa Freunde e.V."; apart from<br />
the publication’s editor NEUBAUER, the speakers included the<br />
members of the Hessian REP Land Association, Hans HIRZEL<br />
and Gottfried BURISCHEK, and the deputy chairman of the<br />
Hamburg Land Association of the REP, Jan PIGORS 18) -<br />
.<br />
According to a press release by the Baden-Wurttemberg<br />
Land Executive Secretariat of the NPD of 23 September, the<br />
REP and the NPD in Karlsruhe presented a joint list for the<br />
local elections in Baden-Wurttemberg on 24 October. In an<br />
interview with the broadcasting station Südwestrundfunk, the<br />
local REP frontrunner justified the candidacy of NPD<br />
members on the REP List - NPD membership did not play<br />
any role in his view. On the same broadcasting programme,<br />
the Chairman of the Karlsruhe Kreis Association of the NPD<br />
pointed out that this co-operation had been initiated by the<br />
REP 19) .<br />
- The Hessian Land Association of the "Republikanische<br />
Jugend" (RJ - "Republican Youth") on 26 September reported<br />
that the RJ, in co-operation with the Biblis (Hesse)<br />
Local Association of the REP had on 24 September<br />
organized a song recital by the right-extremist singersongwriter<br />
Frank RENNICKE (cf. Chapter III, sub-section 2.1,<br />
above) 20) .<br />
- In an interview with the NPD party organ "Deutsche Stimme",<br />
the Chairman of the Bergstraße (Hesse) Kreis Association of<br />
the REP, Hans-Peter FISCHER, declared that the November<br />
issue had stated that co-operation with the NPD not only was<br />
expedient, but also vital for all national and democratic forces<br />
from the so-called right-wing camp.<br />
Participation in elections The REP took part in the elections to the European Parliament,<br />
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