Left-Extremist Endeavours

Ethnic community and
national-socialism
Xenophobia (anti-foreigner
hostility)
establish the German national [ethnic] community."
("Deutsche Stimme", no. 4/99, p. 1)
In this context, the neo-Nazi Steffen HUPKA, who is a member of
the NPD National Executive Committee, launched the appeal to
respect the "laws of the take-over of power" and to follow the
inescapable sequence of revolutionary steps". Nationalists would
have to go to the people and explain what they understand by
ethnic community. A priority task was to create liberated zones
both as a physical basis and as a source of intellectual, moral
and spiritual strength. The initial prerequisite for this was the acquisition
of property for living spaces, workshops and cultural
work 53) .
The close affinity of the ethnic, or national, community ["Volksgemeinschaft],
to which the NPD aspires, to national-socialism is
shown by a definition given in the party organ "Deutsche Stimme"
54) : national-socialism was a form of socialism based on the
foundation of Germanity ... as a shaping factor of the German
ethnic community.
The "new order" for which the NPD strives, with its collectivist
model of the "national/ethnic community", which has been borrowed
from National-Socialism, is aimed directly against the free
democratic fundamental order which places the individual at its
centre. The fact that the Party’s aims are diametrically opposed
to the notion of human dignity and civil rights as enshrined in the
Basic Law is evidenced by the words of the then Deputy
Chairman of the NPD Land Association in North Rhine/Westphalia,
Wolfgang FRENZ 55) , agitating against human rights:
"Do human rights turn your stomach? ...
Last year, on 10 December, the UN commemorated the 50 th
anniversary of the ’Universal Declaration of Human Rights’.
What has been presented as a big step forward in man’s
history, really is, as a closer look reveals, a step towards the
’One-World’. This is the path of misdirected egalitarianism
which destroys deeply rooted organic ties and has Marxist
liberal roots."
("Deutsche Zukunft", no. 2/99, p. 13)
Its ethnic-collectivist agitation which is directed against human
rights is combined by the Party with xenophobia of racist motivation.
This view implies that only ethnically homogeneous peoples
("communities of the same people, sharing the same will
and aims and having developed over time") can properly represent
the interests of individuals as the "national-social overall
interest". The individual’s value thus primarily depends on his
integration into society. The following is an example of such
statements:
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