Nazis fashionable in Germany: a new container for the same poison
Military boots with steel tip.Preferably, with white laces.Tight jeans.Bomber type hunter, if possible, with the Scottish pictures.Skinhead.This has invariably, the "look" of thousands of young German neo -Nazis for decades.Your hate uniform.The letter of presentation without words of his nationalist, racist and supremacist ideology.Until now.
A growing group of extreme right of Germany claims, increasingly high, an aesthetic renewal.They argue that German culture can be defended, hate Jews and Muslims and, at the same time, dress in fashion or eat vegan (a food option more linked to the left).They ask to put aside their death of the past and dive without complexes in popular culture.Be one more.And keep the political fund intact.
"I was a skinhead (shaved head) as a young man.As a nationalist, I thought I had to dress like this.But I ended that in 2002, 2003, because I realized that it was a complete stupidity, "he explains to the digital medium Vocativ Patrick Schröder, one of the most media faces of this ultra -rightist current."This is a political struggle, we do not intend to be a subculture.As a movement we should work in this way to fit better in the majority current, "adds this 30 -year -old bavaro that you always wear black and look hipster hairstyle, machine on the sides, but long and carefully combed at the top at the top.
Schröder, with few hairs in the tongue but cunning with the words so as not to stumble upon the strict German law, which hardly punishes the exhibition of national socialist symbology or the denial of the holocaust, is the soul of a channel in the YouTube videos portal of YouTube ofneo -Nazis and for neo -Nazis.The broadcast, on the way to the hundred programs and with an audience that has sometimes exceeded 5.000 visualizations, addresses the news of the ultra -right groups (prohibitions, concentrations, magazines,...), comments today - with special emphasis on the arrival of immigrants - and spice the up to two hours of direct false recording with acid attacks to other races and cultures, as well as with songs from neo -Nazis bands.
The start of emissions is always the same.Studyingly provocative to offend.Ambiguous enough not to end in court.He and, where appropriate, his companion, appear on the screen and greet with his arm upright, like the Nazis in the third Reich, but conveniently closing his hand at the last moment to form a fist.In addition, Schröder usually appears embedded in a black handker alphabet letter.
Vegan kitchen for neo -Nazis
Tim and Kevin -amamo fosh.They are the presenters of the first vegan cooking program for supporters of the extreme right, Balaclava Kücke (cooking cuisine), since the two always appear with the faces covered with this accessory.The broadcast is irregular and terribly amateur, but also receives thousands of visits on YouTube.His last program, hung two weeks ago, explained how to make a nutritious vegan breakfast for half an hour, while carrying the detractors of his ideology and foreigners.Everything also seasoned with a dozen "identity greetings" with the arm up.
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The emergence and the growing media impact - especially on the Internet - of this current that some have called "Nipster", crossing the words "Nazi" and "hipster", took a letter of nature following an image obtained at the beginning of the beginning of2014 by German photographer Jesuso Wred in which three neo -Nazis appeared in a concentration in Magdeburg.One of them wore a beard popular following the latest trends, large sunglasses, baseball cap and a fabric bag with the message: "Please do not push, I have a yogurt in the bag".The photo went viral on social networks.Then the American magazine Rolling Stone drew a detailed radiography of the movement and its objectives in a long report entitled "Heil Hipster".
The stir for the apparent success - at least media - of this group has unleashed an intense controversy among the veterans of the extreme right, who demand the orthodoxy of the shaved heads and the military boots in the aesthetic, as well as the violent attacks and the manifestationsas a way of political expression, compared to the subtle use of blogs on the Tumblr portal or the Instagram social network, stratagems that barely understand.
But, beyond this generational clash, the relevant thing is that this current is mostly alerting to scholars of radical groups and the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the German Secret Services of the Interior.The profile of the ultra -right -wing young people is blurring dangerously and it is no longer enough to attend to a certain haircut or scrutinize the concerts of certain radical bands (in fact now groups of Nazi hip hop prolifeAdolf, or even Nazi reggae).In addition, some observers have warned that the "nipsters" are taking advantage of new non -stigmatized forms to make their message more attractive.
Make somewhat modern racism
The expert in the extreme right Alexander Häusler, from the University of Düsseldorf, considers that after this current there is a conscious attempt to make racism something "modern and fashionable".Simone Rafael, editor Chief of the Site Netz Gegen Nazis (the Network Against the Nazis) ensures that it is a strategy to "bring the (nationalist) ideology to other circles" and to achieve "entry points" in popular culture such as theglobalization or protection of animals although "in the end it is always about anti -Semitism and nationalism," says this activist."They are becoming more subtle and confusing people who are not part of the extreme right," he explains.
The blog about neo -Nazism "Störungmelder" (problem communicator) of the conservative newspaper Die Zeit warns that this trend indicates that "ultra -right is not a problem yesterday": "Instead of highlighting the spectacular of the extreme right, we should pay attentionto the normality of ultra -right ".The author, who remains in anonymity for security reasons, follows: "Fashion anchoring in different subcultures allows you to arouse interest and seek potential successors.Low threshold offers facilitate entry into the scene (neo -Nazi).Through the assumption of daily assets, hitch points are achieved that allow precisely this ".
The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution estimated in its latest annual report - published on June 30 - that about 21 reside in Germany.000 ultra -rightist, of which half tends to violence, a very small figure in front of their around 80 million citizens, of which one in four have "migrant past", that is, some predecessor of foreign origin.
However, the growing migratory pressure in Germany -with more than 200.000 asylum petitioners arrived in 2014 and the forecast of about 400.000 For this year- he has converted the issue of refugees and immigrants into a hot debate where opinions of all kinds are crossed.This context explains the rise of the Islamophobic collective European patriots against the Islamization of the West (Pegida), which came to summon more than 20.000 people in one of their weekly concentrations in Dresden, and the migratory theses of Alternative by Germany, a Euroestptic party new wedge that has found a political reefophobia in xenophobia.
