The Uncle Adolf Birthday Bash: 20 April 2018

[Rev.Cambeul]

Good times with good friends at the Schild und Schwert/Shield and Sword/SS Festival at Ostritz
https://schildundschwertfestival.de

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Hundreds of neo-Nazis mass for festival to mark Hitler's birthday as anti-fascists stage rival protests and police with water cannon and armoured vehicles surround area

* 'Schild und Schwert'  - Shield and Sword, or SS -  festival taking place near the Polish and Czech borders
* Organisers say 1000 neo-Nazis are expected at event which also attract eastern European extremists
* Neo-Nazis long staged underground fund-raising but even seen as part of emboldened far-right movement
* Local people, churches and trade unions staged a demonstration against the festival in the local town

Tariq Tahir | Daily Mail (UK) | 21 April 2018

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5641417/Hundreds-neo-Nazis-stage-festival-mark-Hitlers-birthday-anti-fascists-stage-rival-protests.html

Extract: Hundreds of neo-Nazis were massing Friday on Adolf Hitler's birthday for a two-day festival in a remote eastern German town where citizens and anti-fascist groups staged spirited counter-protests.

Many of the mostly male right-wing extremists wore T-shirts with slogans such as 'Keepers of the Race', 'White is my favourite colour' and 'Adolf was the best' while the event was guarded by a group called 'Aryan Brotherhood'.

Hundreds of armoured police ringed the site of the 'Schild und Schwert' (Shield and Sword, or SS) festival near the Polish and Czech borders that was expected to also attract eastern European extremists.

http://video.dailymail.co.uk/video/mol/2018/04/21/4304073592639997489/960x540_MP4_4304073592639997489.mp4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxd9_aLVfzM

Organisers argue that the 'Reconquista Europa' festival - featuring far-right music, speeches, martial arts, a tattoo convention and merchandise stalls - is a political event, granting it legal protection under the German constitution.

They said they expected about 1,000 participants.

Authorities have been unable to stop the concert from happening because it is taking place on private property, but a court on Friday confirmed a ban on the consumption of alcohol during the event. Judges said the neo-Nazi bands would likely fire up the crowd and alcohol might make attendees more aggressive.

Source: https://www.timesunion.com/news/world/article/Court-bans-alcohol-at-neo-Nazi-rock-festival-in-12850604.php

While neo-Nazis have long staged underground concerts for recruiting and fund-raising, a major two-day music festival with a tent city and tickets selling at up to €45 (£40) is seen as an escalation of an emboldened far-right movement.

The Shield and Sword lineup features bands linked to the far-right and hooligan scene as well as a 'fight night' event Saturday called 'Kampf der Nibelungen', a reference from Germanic and Norse mythology, featuring boxing, kickboxing and mixed martial arts.

'To live is to fight,' declares the event website. 'At all times it was fighters who defended their clan, their tribe, their homeland.'

The SS festival organiser is Thorsten Heise of the far-right fringe party NPD, which is openly xenophobic and anti-Semitic.

Heise led journalists on a police-guarded tour of the ramshackle compound, a hotel and former industrial textile factory that closed soon after the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall and later suffered river flood damage.

A far-right merchandise sales man who identified himself as Tommy, 31, and wore a t-shirt with the slogan 'HTLR SCHNTZL', said Germany's biggest problem was 'the uncontrolled influx of foreigners into our homeland'.

'Look at the chaos, now we need concrete barriers at Christmas market,' he said, referring to security measures after a 2016 Berlin jihadist attack that claimed 12 lives.

The event comes as Germany, after a mass influx of asylum seekers since 2015, is witnessing a revival of far-right and ultra-nationalist groups and has seen the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) enter parliament.

Quote: "Shaven-headed and often heavily tattooed attendees" - Source: Daily Mail (UK)

[Rev.Cambeul]

Jews: They're never happy unless they are bitching about White people having fun ...

Hundreds of 'Neo-Nazis' Attend Festival in German Town
The Times of Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/hundreds-of-neo-nazis-gather-in-german-town-for-hitlers-birthday

Extract: Hundreds of neo-Nazis gathered Friday on Adolf Hitler's birthday for a two-day festival in a remote eastern German town where citizens and anti-fascist groups staged spirited counter-protests. Many of the mostly male right-wing extremists wore T-shirts with slogans such as "Keepers of the Race," "White is my favorite color" and "Adolf was the best," while the event was guarded by a group called "Aryan Brotherhood." Hundreds of armored police ringed the site of the "Schild und Schwert" (Shield and Sword, or SS) festival near the Polish and Czech borders that was expected to also attract eastern European extremists ... The two-day event was expected to attract up to 1,000 far-right extremists from Germany, the neighboring Czech Republic and Poland.