Left-Extremist Endeavours

Denial and relativization of
atrocities committed in the
"Third Reich"
with the past and from joining the international community as a
member enjoying equal rights. Moreover, the Party tries to revive
notions of an alleged Jewish predominance and denounces "new
Jewish claims" 56) . In the party organ "Deutsche Stimme", an
author states the following with reference to the central Holocaust
Memorial planned to be erected in Berlin:
"The Memorial ... is designed as a perpetual denigration of the
Germans, a memorial to the people’s everlasting collective
liability - what is more, a moralistic cudgel, a star for the
innocent descendants so that they shall never think about
history freely and independently. The barbaric memorial is
meant to fool us into believing that we are living in a country
of potential criminals where Jews have to monitor the morals
of Germans placed on probation. ... In fact, a clean break
should and must at last be made with the persecution of the
Germans. Thus, anybody who - after 50 years of democratic
development of the FRG, after undergoing a chastening
process and re-education by U.S. Americans, after reparation
and redress (amounting to more than 100,000 million
deutschmark) - ... calls for a central memorial, manifests
hatred, and not the will to build peace."
("Deutsche Stimme", no. 2/99, p. 12)
In addition, the NPD relativizes Nazi crimes - and even denies
the Holocaust. Thus, it provided an individual convicted of Holocaust
denial with a forum in its party organ 57) . In this way, the
Party tries to morally exonerate the Hitler regime in order to clear
the tarnished image of right-extremist ideology discredited by the
Nazi regime.
In the Bulletin of the North Rhine/Westphalia Land Association,
"Deutsche Zukunft" ("German Future"), an author once more
made reference to the allegedly scientifically based "Leuchter
Expertise" 58) claiming that the Zyklon B poison could not be used
for industrial-scale killing of human beings 59) .
With reference to the night of the November 1938 pogrom
["Crystal Night", of 9 November 1938], an author stated in "Deutsche
Zukunft":
"While not wishing to downplay the atrocities of that night of 9
November, we should recall the findings of revisionist
research which provide good arguments and evidence that
this event had been planned by Internationalists with the aim
of destroying the growing prestige of National-Socialist [Nazi]
Germany - and this aim was indeed achieved. ... The leading
Nazi politicians were unaware of what was going on and were
horrified, and Hitler who at the same time spoke to Nazi
veterans in Munich ... next to a synagogue which was not in
flames, evidently had no knowledge of all this. It is a pity that
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