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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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