Perplex: Nazi News…for Teens! September 24, 2007

The British Independent brings us the story:

Germany’s main neo-Nazi party has launched a youth propaganda campaign by distributing newspapers in schools that portray Adolf Hitler as a Second World War peacemaker and the Allies as warmongers.

State prosecutors in the east German city of Dresden said yesterday that police had confiscated some 150 of the offending newspapers circulated by the country’s neo-Nazi National Democratic party (NPD) at schools in the region.

They said the newspapers, entitled Perplex, carried a seemingly harmless front page picture of two hands about to join under the slogan “Young, Cheeky and German”. However, inside pupils were encouraged to turn their schools into German-only institutions and to despise foreigners….

German intelligence officials said the newspapers were part of a far wider campaign by the party to distribute tens of thousands of similar documents at schools nationwide.

These publications are being given out for free.

I sincerely hope no one believes this is going on in a vacuum. The rise of anti-Semitism must be fueled by a young populace: the average middle-aged citizen, no matter how virulently racist, has responsibilities which his 20-year-old counterpart does not. The middle-aged citizen will not chuck Molotovs as quickly as his younger counterpart. These organizations, to stay “doing their thing”, must keep their constituency fresh. Not to mention, these are young voters — or, at least, soon will be — young voters who the NPD wants to lock down.

The NPD holds Parliamentary seats in two eastern provinces in Germany. Eastern Germany has a number of “liberated zones”, where “local governments and judges either sympathise with or fear the neo-Nazi”. This, compounded with unemployment and hopelessness, provides fertile ground for the NPD to seep into school systems.

When the racists break into the education system in such a brazen manner, anti-racist education, by default, becomes a priority.