Left-Extremist Endeavours

Ab jetzt ... Bündnis für
Deutschland
Bund für Gesamtdeutschland
(BDG)
camp". Its efforts failed because of the unwillingness of the other
right-extremist parties to give up their autonomy. At present, the
DLVH has a membership of only some 300. Its activities are
mainly initiated by Jürgen SCHÜTZINGER, a member of the
Executive Committee, who has initiated a "German Peace Party"
to provide against the event that the DLVH might disband 75) . The
DLVH participated unsuccessfully in the local elections in North
Rhine/Westphalia, with its Cologne front runner Manfred ROUHS,
the publisher of "Signal", (cf. Chapter VI below). In the local
elections in Baden-Wurttemberg on 24 October, SCHÜTZINGER
retained his municipal council mandate in Villingen-Schwenningen
by winning 4.4 % of the votes.
The political party "Ab jetzt ... Bündnis für Deutschland" ("As of
now ... Alliance for Germany") which was founded in 1997 and is
now led by Helmut FLECK, has about 150 members in ten Land
Associations and various Kreis Associations. By making comparisons
with the crimes committed by other nations and by
presenting doctored figures, the Party relativizes the Nazi Holocaust.
It persistently repeats revisionist demands for the restoration
of Germany within the state borders of 1937 76) . In the local
elections in North Rhine/Westphalia, the Party won an electoral
mandate in Siegburg.
The small party "Bund für Gesamtdeutschland" (BGD - "Union for
All of Germany"), which was founded in 1990 and is led by Horst
ZABOROWSKI and which formerly was closely connected to "Ab
jetzt ... Bündnis für Deutschland", champions similar revisionist,
antidemocratic and xenophobic views. The BGD labels democratic
parties as "licensee parties" 77) , invokes a Germanic
"Thing" democracy, and warns against dissolution of the German
people and its displacement by a "mixed population" 78) .
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