Nuclear Weapons Division

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The “Atomwaffen Division” (AWD) is a right-wing extremist group that first appeared publicly in Florida in October 2015 and has since spread to the USA and other countries. It is considered one of the most dangerous neo-Nazi groups today.

Your logo is a black coat of arms with the radiation warning sign . Their ideology is based on National Socialism and propagates anti-Semitism , white supremacy , hatred of minorities and excessive violence in order to bring about a worldwide apocalyptic "race war" . It glorifies right-wing extremist and Islamist mass murderers as role models.

The number of members in the USA is currently (2019) at 80 to 100 people, the number of applicants at more than 100. They organize themselves according to the action concept leaderless resistance in independent cells and train their followers in machine guns and bomb making. Three members have killed a total of five people since 2017.

The group has been promoting active members internationally since 2017. Similar groups emerged in Australia ( "Antipodean Resistance" ), Canada ( "Northern Order" ), Great Britain ( "Sun War Division" ), Eastern Europe ( "Fire War Division" ) and Scandinavia ( " Nordic Resistance Movement " ). Since June 2018 there has also been a "Nuclear Weapons Division Germany " (AWDD), to which experts have 24 to 36 members. Since autumn 2018, alleged members of this group have threatened German Jews and Muslims , and since November 2019 some German politicians as well.

After some of its members were arrested, the AWD in the USA announced its dissolution in March 2020. The German AWD, on the other hand, emphasized that it would continue to exist and grow.

Emergence

The Iron March

According to research by the civil rights group Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the AWD emerged from the neo-Nazi forum Iron March , which existed from 2011 until it was banned in autumn 2017. His motto was: “Gas The Kikes! Race War Now! 1488! Boots on the ground! "(" Gass the Jews ! Race war now! 1488! Boots on the ground! "). The right-wing extremist number code 1488 stands for the "fourteen words" by David Eden Lane and the Hitler salute . The website's official coat of arms carried the motto and other right-wing extremist symbols and signs , including the black sun and a skull mask with a swastika . This is "the face of fascism of the 21st century, the defense against individualism and egoism - we follow and serve the truth". The abbreviation GTKRWN for the motto sentences was the access code for users of the forum.

The Iron March websites , like The Daily Stormer, promoted hatred of Jews and a war for a global, violent revolution of the "white race". The participants debated texts of historical fascism by Corneliu Zelea Codreanu , Benito Mussolini , José Antonio Primo de Rivera and others, informed each other about fascist bookstores, blogs and sources and tried to build a corresponding movement. To do this, they used psychological warfare , identified enemies and their language to eliminate their influence.

The more than 1600 registered users of the forum were mostly young white men who belong to a growing white supremacy movement in western states and who gradually radicalized one another. They see themselves united in an international fascist struggle for the supremacy of the "white race". According to around 150,000 posts examined by SPLC, fascism has characteristics of a religious belief for them. Selected users wrote contributions to the forum's own magazine Rope Culture , created memes that called for genocide against Jews and non-whites and were later smuggled into online media such as Twitter and Facebook . Others incited one another to commit direct crimes, welcomed right-wing extremist terrorist attacks and recommended them to be copied. From the opening in September 2011 to the closing in November 2017, the Iron March supported at least ten neo-Nazi groups who affirmed terrorist violence for a world of the "white race" and some of them emerged from the forum:

The Iron March was taken offline in December 2017. On November 6, 2019, a stranger published the entire database of the forum under the name antifa-data . It contains user names, logins, e-mail addresses, IP addresses, all public contributions and the private messages of all previous users. Previous research by civil rights groups in the database could be checked, some have already been confirmed as correct. The research network Bellingcat made the data available and explained how they can be used for research. This enables the exposure of numerous neo-Nazis who have been active around the world since 2011, including many AWD members. Your announcement is awaited.

Foundation of the AWD

The neo-Nazi Brandon Clint Russell (username " Odin ") first appeared on the Iron March on March 22, 2014 at the age of 19 : He wanted to expand his knowledge and is currently reading the book For My Legionaries by the Romanian fascist Corneliu Zelea Codreanu , whose followers are ritual Drank blood. He posted photographs of him posing with a rifle and wearing a t-shirt that said Natural Born Killers and an imperial eagle . He extolled school massacres such as the Columbine High School rampage , the Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik , who murdered 77 people, and Adolf Hitler . He was also interested in nuclear weapons , studied nuclear physics for a few semesters at the University of South Florida and posted instructions for the improvised construction of nuclear reactors .

Russell's roommate Devon Arthurs ( TheWeissewolfe ) joined the Iron March as a 16-year-old on March 18, 2015, her later roommate Andrew Oneschuk ( Borovikov ) as a 17-year-old on March 28, 2016. His username referred to the Russian neo-Nazi Dmitry Borovikov who murdered migrants and an anti-fascist. Oneschuk cited an interest in right-wing extremist politics, nationalism and the search for contact with a group like the National Action as the reason for his joining. He was the reborn Breivik. These AWD founders discussed current events in the Iron March always under the aspect of whether they could accelerate the desired collapse of the state order.

In June 2015, in the Iron March , Russell asked another neo-Nazi to create a GIF with the phrase nuclear weapons intensifies for him. This was the first reference to the new group. It initially consisted only of Russell, Arthurs, and a few other teenagers who tested AWD promotional materials in private chats. In July 2015, Russell declared that his group was a militia and called itself "the Nuclear Weapons Division ." In September 2015, Arthurs told an applicant that AWD had around 16 members with him, mostly in Florida.

On October 12, 2015, Russell officially announced the foundation, name and goals of the AWD in the Iron March . It has more than 40 members and was created for at least three years. It is a fanatical comradeship that combines activism and militant training on weapons and other things, spreads awareness even with unusual methods and demands serious devotion from its members to the group and to the goal of an uncompromising final victory . Only those who are ready to go on roads, in forests and anywhere in the world and to work together in physical reality are suitable. "Key warriors" on the PC are unsuitable, although the group inconspicuously does a lot of hoes .

Right-wing extremism experts explain the emergence of AWD from a significant increase and radicalization of right-wing extremist groups before and since the inauguration of US President Donald Trump (January 2017). These groups see terrorist violence as the legitimate and only solution to their complaints, build on an uninterrupted tradition of right-wing terrorist attacks in the USA, radicalize themselves outside of fixed organizational structures and get their ideology and inspiration from the Internet .

ideology

Relationship to the alt-right

AWD is considered particularly extreme in neo-Nazism in the USA, but shares essential common ideological elements with other neo-Nazi groups:

AWD emerged from the Alt-Right movement and, like it, represents the ideology of white supremacy , but with the extreme variant of accelerationism : According to this, Western governments are irredeemably corrupt, so that elections and mass politics are pointless. White racists could only hasten the collapse of the "system" by sowing chaos and tension. Terrorist violence with firearms against non-white minorities and Jews is best suited for this. This idea emerged explicitly in the manifesto of the Australian mass murderer Brenton Tarrant and is constantly discussed in right-wing extremist forums. It goes back to the post-1990 theory of neo-reaction by Nick Land , which influenced Donald Trump's adviser Stephen Bannon and the Alt-Right. Since the Unite-the-Right march in Charlottesville in 2017, accelerationism has found growing support among neo-Nazis, who despise the Alt-Right representatives as ineffective cowards.

James Mason's victories

AWD primarily refers to the right-wing extremist author James Mason and his until then almost forgotten work Siege ("Siege") from 1992. The book was known on the Iron March since 2011 and was recommended more and more often from 2015 as an answer to current problems. Forum participants established the Read Siege meme and thus set a trend in the white supremacy movement. AWD management members tracked down Mason in 2017 and offered him the opportunity to spread his ideas on the Internet via the new Siege Culture website.

Siege is a collection of letters between James Mason and the incarcerated mass murderer Charles Manson . In it, Mason praises Manson's "Helter Skelter" terrorist murders as a method of overburdening government agencies and causing a white uprising. The collection includes Holocaust denial and hatred against Jews and homosexuals, calling for the formation of decentralized terrorist cells and armed struggle against the "system" and propagates a dominated by a "white race" of anti-feminism , anti-Semitism and racism embossed Universal Order . Mason glorifies Manson's murders and calls for leaderless armed terrorist cells as a means to hasten the overthrow of the government and the envisaged white revolution. He justifies this with an alleged control of Jews over all areas of American culture. He does not want to violate this system, but to kill it.

The Siege website took over large parts of older debates on the banned Iron March website and thus became the AWD platform. AWD sent prisoner Charles Manson to prison with letters glorifying violence. He is said to have designed the AWD logo. After Russell was imprisoned in May 2017 and Manson died in November 2017, Mason's ideology gained increased influence over the AWD. Fetishized terrorist violence became the core of their teaching.

More role models

In addition to Adolf Hitler and Charles Manson, AWD refers to a number of right-wing terrorists and celebrates their actions as contributions to the desired racist "cleansing" of the modern world. This includes:

AWD members had personal contact with Kaczynski. The Siege website recommends Mason's work as a call to battles befitting Timothy Mcveigh's fame.

AWD members also celebrate Islamist mass murderers like Osama bin Laden . According to a member, AWD often praised the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 with the slogan Osama was Right ("Osama was right"). As the Muslim Omar Mateen in attack in Orlando on June 12, 2016 49 visitors a homosexual clubs murdered and then the Islamic state known (ISIS), to Russell him have described as "heroes". At a memorial service for the murder victims of the attack in Orlando, the 21-year-old appeared Steven Billingsley with a skull mask and a sign that swastikas and the slogan God hates Fags ( "God hates fags ") wore. He then confessed to the AWD on Facebook. He wanted to make it clear to the “degenerate” that “they are to blame for what they get”, whether through a Muslim or AIDS . "Our race" should be kept pure, foreign religion should be fended off as well as homosexuality .

In the spring of 2017, AWD co-founder Devon Arthurs converted to Islam and committed himself to “ Salafist National Socialism” in the internal AWD chat . Russell let him go. After his murders in May 2017, Arthurs allegedly confessed to a comrade that he had become a jihadist because neo-Nazis were "soft" and AWD had taken in many LGBT people, whereas groups like ISIS "actually murdered homosexuals".

Even after Arthur's act, the AWD often referred positively to Islamists. In November 2018, a suspected AWD member recommended the book Management of Savagery (published 2004) to a member of the related group The Base . The author Abu Bakr Naji , a member of the Islamist terror network al-Qaida , described a professionalized guerrilla struggle with modern propaganda methods. His work also influenced the formation of ISIS. In May 2019, the European Fire Warfare Division, which is associated with AWD, took over the cover of a well-known ISIS video that instructs bomb construction, with the line “It's easier than you think”. According to these instructions, the bombs for the terrorist attack in Manchester on May 22, 2017, which left 23 dead, were built. A video version reduced to the instructions also appeared on a neo-Nazi channel on the messenger service Telegram . In June 2019, an AWD author said online under the title “The Islamic Example” that the cultivation of martyrdom and resistance among the Taliban and ISIS can be admired and imitated by neo-Nazis: “I want radicals, those young men who live their lives for are ready to give our ideas, no matter what it costs ”. The Internet brings this willingness to sacrifice closer. In autumn 2019 the AWD propagandist Dark Foreigner produced stylized portraits of Osama Bin Laden and quoted his saying: When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature, they will like the strong horse.

Right-wing extremism experts explain this rapprochement between neo-Nazis and Islamists from their joint affirmation of extreme violence for their ideological goals, their similar propaganda methodology and visual terror aesthetics as well as from their joint anti-Semitism.

Conflict over satanism

Since 2017, the Siege Culture website has offered works from right-wing esotericism , such as by Guido von List and Savitri Devi , as well as from Satanism and occultism , such as The Devil's Notebook by Anton Szandor LaVey and the three-volume work Hostia: Secret Teachings of the Order of Nine Angles (ONA). There was also the work Iron Gates , anonymous written by a member of Tempel ov Blood (a group closely related to ONA) , which depicts a brutal, fictional world dominated by sadistic child murderers after a nuclear war . How much Satanists influence AWD is unclear. Observers assume that AWD consciously attacks cultural taboos in order to integrate new supporters into the neo-Nazi scene and, with the appeal of the forbidden, to address especially young people who demand effective successes of the movement.

The ONA texts affirm human sacrifice , glorify Nazi Germany and deny the Holocaust . An introductory text calls on ONA members (called Noctulians ) to infiltrate right-wing extremist political movements in order to convert their followers to their own cult. The aim is to show fanaticism in action and to represent “heretical” points of view so that all right-wing people see ONA members as dangerous extremists. AWD recommended this text to its members in the “ Spirituality ” section of its library. The fiction Iron Gates named AWD there as required reading for AWD applicants.

This repelled some AWD members who only found the group's neo-Nazism attractive. In January 2018, a neo-Nazi who presented himself as a former AWD member published a dramatic article on the Internet that was supposed to document the growing satanic references of AWD. Satanism (not murderous terrorist violence) is a new "plague" in neo-Nazism. One will finally cleanse one's own ranks of this “scrap” so that satanic influence can never again gain a foothold in neo-Nazism. Other alleged or real AWD members then stated that the ONA texts and Iron Gates were only offered as memes. However, they confirmed that the critic had been an AWD member and had participated in internal chats. In addition, it turned out that the new AWD leader John Cameron Denton posted ONA logos under his pseudonym Vincent Snyder in 2014, praised the group at the Iron March in 2015 and combined ONA symbols with AWD propaganda in November 2016.

As a result, many AWD members resigned or announced their departure, as screenshots of group chats show. Even on the Gab network , people who had previously presented themselves as AWD supporters distanced themselves from the group. A former AWD supporter published chat logs and recordings of telephone calls there, which were supposed to expose the satanic references of AWD. The core of the conflict was disagreement as to whether and to what extent the ideas and goals of Satanism were compatible with National Socialism. Other neo-Nazis took up the ongoing debate within AWD and intensified the conflict with their own allegations against AWD. AWD members defended themselves: Moralism will not help the movement to survive in the coming race war.

As more and more users of the Daily Stormer mentioned the book Siege by James Mason, the founder of the website Andrew Anglin distinguished himself from AWD and wrote to his followers: Fuck siege, fuck their cult, fuck satanism - this is so gay it makes me sick. No autonomous neo-Nazi should succumb to a satanic death cult. Even Matthew Heimbach , founder of the now defunct Traditionalist Worker Party , distancing himself in December 2017 Guideline Read victories , Mason and Manson not to let go up to his group in the AWD.

Members

AWD is mostly made up of cadres of white young men, including some active members of the United States Army and Satanists. At first they organized themselves in the Iron March Forum and later met in real life to radicalize themselves.

According to Russell from 2015, subgroups exist in the states of Alabama , Florida, Kentucky , Missouri , Ohio , Oregon , Texas , Virginia and in the cities of Boston , Chicago and New York City . Other subgroups consist loud observers in the area of Seattle in Washington and in Richmond , Virginia. According to chat logs of AWD members decrypted by ProPublica , there were active AWD cells in at least 23 states in the United States in February 2018.

The exact number of members cannot be determined due to the decentralized form of organization. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) estimated that 24 to 36 people participated in AWD weapons exercises and hate courses in 2018. ProPublica estimated AWD to have around 80 members. According to one dropout, AWD has grown to around 80 members in 23 US states since the Unite-the-Right march in Charlottesville in 2017. The largest subgroups are in Virginia, Texas and Washington. Each department works independently. According to chat protocols examined by ProPublica, AWD supporters use at least 100 different user names. Access to the chats is strictly controlled; whether some participants use multiple names is unclear. The reservoirs of possible AWD supporters include the more than 1600 registered users of the Iron March forum.

After Russell's arrest in May 2017, a Vincent Snyder took over the administration of the AWD website. In January 2018, ADL identified him as the then 24-year-old John Cameron Denton of Montgomery, Texas. He currently lives near the small town of Conroe . On the internet he calls himself rape (" rape "). He shapes the AWD ideology, designs posters for the group and selects books that new recruits have to read in their admission process. His younger brother, Grayson Patrick Denton ( Nazgul ), also belongs to the AWD cell in Texas. His pseudonym "Leon" alludes to the Belgian fascist and SS standard leader Léon Degrelle .

Another leader of the AWD cell in Texas is Sean Michael Fernandez (" Wehrwolf "). He hailed the murder of his comrade Samuel Woodward on January 30, 2018 as an inspiration for copycats. The growing fear of AWD attacks is exactly what he wanted.

In the Iron March files leaked November 6, 2019, Vice journalists identified at least three active U.S. soldiers and dozen who claimed military experience. A member of the United States Navy ( Niezgoda ) wanted to found a fascist paramilitary group at the forum and was looking for comrades who would be willing to die for blood and soil . He is exempt from punishment and is using his wealth to equip his group. He doesn't go to rallies, but at the expected RaHoWa he will be “one of the worst nightmare”. An Alabama Marine Corps soldier ( ImperialGrunt ) asked AWD founder Brandon Russell about AWD cells in his area in January 2017. Russell insisted that he read Siege first and suggested meeting face-to-face. The applicant agreed and later told Russell that he had found a like-minded person in his unit for the targeted paramilitary group. He described the radicalization of his fellow soldiers, gave tips for military training and recommended his martial arts and knowledge of weapons.

With the leaked Iron March files, civil rights activists exposed 23-year-old Lauren Ahsley Paul from Zanesville, Ohio . It had the username rekse_ , later beautiful and white , and the email address francaise1996@gmail.com . On her Facebook page lauren.paulson.98 she introduced herself as a physics student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . On YouTube she shared National Socialist Black Metal and the band Burzum by Varg Vikernes , who was arrested in 2013 on suspicion of terrorism. She was in contact with Devin Arthurs online and said she designed AWD stickers and posted AWD posters at universities. From May 2017, after Arthur's murders, she was looking for “Muslim-free” right-wing extremist groups and designed propaganda material for the Silver Legion , which existed until August 2016, and then probably for the Aryan Underground group . The former group formed a few AWD supporters, including Evan Gillwood (username Zeroangle ) from Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Jared Casalinuovo ( Stealth_24 or arundel ) from Reading, Massachusetts, and Arthur's roommate Andrew Oneschuk ( Borovikov ). Her circle included Dillon Hopper ( Lauburu88 ), the leader of Vanguard America . Lauren Paul wrote her last Iron March post to Brandon Russell on May 7, 2017.

The investigative journalist Nate Thayer exposed more than a dozen AWD members by December 2019. Among them is Ryan Hatfield from Thornton, Colorado , who joined AWD at the age of 16 and quickly rose to become the leader of the AWD cell in Colorado . He served as James Mason's private secretary and contributed significantly to the dissemination of Mason's texts and documents on social media under his usernames RyanAW , Ryan Nolan Smith , Ryan Nuclear Weapons , Ryan Nolan Mason , Arthur Nolan Mason . His parents knew and approved of his AWD activities and gave him a machine gun. 33-year-old William H. Stoetzer ( PanzerViking , Saor ) from Cripple Creek (Colorado) has been a member of the AWD cell Colorado since 2016. He became an activist in 2007 as an activist for the radical environmental group Earth First! and Earth Liberation Front (ELF). The 16-year-old volunteer soldier Bella Oakley ( EdelweissSS ) from Denver applied to the AWD, was rejected as a woman and then met with Hatfield privately. Joshua Caleb Sutter ( Swiss Discipline ), founder of the satanist sect Tempel ov Blood , heads the AWD cell in South Carolina . Oswald N. Woods ( Ozzy or OzzyAW ) runs the AWD cell in West Virginia .

activities

propaganda

From the founding of the AWD in October 2015 to Russell's arrest in May 2017, AWD used flyers, posters and stickers to attract supporters at universities in the United States. In early November 2015, Russell and Devon Arthurs distributed AWD leaflets and stickers with anti-Semitic slogans and the appeal Join your local Nazis! In the University of Central Florida . . This was the first time the group came out in public.

In 2016, AWD put up similar propaganda posters at Old Dominion University , Boston University , University of Colorado , University of Chicago, and Suffolk University, among others . They carried a portrait of Hitler, the swastika and the slogans Join Your Local Nazis! or The Nazis Are Coming! . At the same time, AWD confessed itself on Twitter with statements such as University of Chicago got stickercausted tonight by Chicago's local Nazis: Atomwaffen. No Degeneracy, No Tolerance, Hail Victory too. Local police authorities started investigations. The AWD posters appeared in the context of a sharp increase in racist propaganda crimes at universities in the United States from 2016 to 2017.

Also in 2016, an AWD member provoked in front of the ADL building in Houston with a sign that read "Mary's Life Mattered". He was referring to Mary Phagan, who allegedly murdered the Jew Leo Frank in 1913. This case of anti-Semitic agitation led to the founding of the ADL.

At the Iron March in 2016, some AWD members welcomed Donald Trump's candidacy for the US presidency, but mostly only because they saw him as helpful in throwing world politics into chaos more quickly. While the former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke revered Trump as a “great white hope”, in November 2016 Russell viewed Trump as a “fagot” with a “pro-Jewish” worldview that merely shouted out phrases to his followers and expressed their love for the “system “Heat up.

In October 2017, AWD opened the new Siege-Culture (SC) website on Cloudflare . Five of the eight operators shown are AWD members. On the subpage Worldview , John Cameron Denton describes a meeting with James Mason in 2017: AWD helped him to publish his work Siege online and then decided on a direction of action appropriate to the work. The right movement has lured people into thinking without consequences for too long. If you visit this website, you can make history. That is the intention of the authors. In December 2017, AWD uploaded much of the content to the BitChute video service. The AWD videos primarily show exercises with firearms and urge their viewers to come out from behind their computers and take action. Masked AWD members burn the flag and constitution of the United States on some of these videos .

For years, AWD was able to distribute its propaganda videos, calls for murder and terrorism unhindered via various social media on the Internet. Its members and other white racists used, among other things, the Discord messenger service to exchange confidential information and organizational plans, for example to distribute bomb-making manuals and to prepare for the violent confrontation in Charlottesville (August 2017). AWD members celebrated the fifth murder from their own ranks on Discord in January 2018. On February 23, 2018, ProPublica reported on the chat services, web providers and gaming platforms used by AWD and printed some excerpts from the more than 250,000 Discord messages from AWD members. Shortly thereafter, Discord closed some servers from the Alt-Right environment, including the AWD site and their private chat forum. As a result of the ProPublica report, the Twitter user Deplatform Hate criticized the web provider Inktale for selling T-shirts with Nazi themes to finance its activities. These included portraits of Charles Manson and James Mason as well as slogans such as “Give hate a chance.” Inktale reacted quickly, removed AWD T-shirts and blocked associated providers.

Cloudflare had the neo-Nazi site Daily Stormer after the murder of Heather Heyer in August 2017 banned but offered the websites AtomwaffenDivision.org and SiegeCulture.com further protection against hackers. In response to criticism, a spokesman said that business relationships with the hosting providers of AWD websites would be maintained. It is their job to block AWD websites. Cloudflare will inform their owners about lawsuits that would be filed via the anonymous reporting form.

AWD has had two channels of its own on YouTube since June 2017, through which 13 videos were uploaded by January 2018. The first was called Fire up the Panzers and launch the nukes! The nuclear weapons division is here! A video titled Zealou's Operation showed masked men shouting gas the kikes, race war now, and then firing their armed guns. YouTube only provided the video with a warning that viewers could confirm with one click and then continue watching. There was a 17-person group on Steam who linked to AWD websites and the YouTube accounts. Its users had names like Pure Aryan 100% , showed photos of the mass murderer Dylann Roof as an avatar, swastikas, Nazi comments, demanded to read the book Siege and to prepare a "race war". Despite many protests and against its own guidelines, the operator Valve left such calls on Steam for years. After the fifth AWD murder in January 2018, both video platforms came under greater pressure to close AWD channels and delete AWD videos. Steam banned its AWD group immediately after the first media report about it. YouTube didn't respond to requests for weeks.

On February 28, the ADL asked YouTube, referring to its guidelines, to delete AWD videos and other anti-Semitic neo-Nazi videos immediately. On the same day, YouTube blocked one of the two AWD channels and removed all videos uploaded there. Reports about this criticized the previous refusal and assessed the change of course as late. AWD's second YouTube channel, SIEGEtv , stayed online and continued to spread Nazi ideology. Immediately after the main channel was deleted, AWD supporters again uploaded several exact copies of the deleted propaganda videos. According to Vice's research , videos of the AWD, the Iron March , the National Action , the Nordic Resistance Movement and the like remained on YouTube for weeks, months, sometimes years, despite reporting complaints, and could be found using a simple name search.

After a year off, AWD released a new recruitment video in May 2019 entitled Accelerating Vengeance . A spokesman commented on a recording of a nuclear weapon test from 1952 with the words: “It is now 30 seconds to zero time. Put on goggles or look away. Don't take off your glasses or your face will burst ten seconds after the first light. ”Too hard techno music, masked men in camouflage showed drill exercises with rifles, close combat, target shooting in forests and on snow-covered land. In the following scene, AWD members layer the flags of Israel , the UN , Black Lives Matter and the counter-movement Blue Lives Matter , the Gadsden flag and the rainbow flag on top of each other. Then a member sets the flags on fire with a torch and a bottle of flammable liquid. The slogan “Join your local Nazis!” Follows, a website is announced and an e-mail address is displayed. A picture of the video comes from a Facebook page of the satanist Temple ov Blood . AWD members showed the books Iron Gates and Bluebird published by this sect . The video stayed online for hours, was copied several times and uploaded again in the following days. Each of the copies received hundreds of viewers. YouTube removed only a few copies. The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) filed a complaint on May 17 that YouTube did not respond to for days. On May 20th, the AWD video had more than 2,300 views and was now also seen on Vimeo , BitChute, the Internet Archive , Reddit and neo-Nazi channels on Discord; Left there stood on 4chan and Gab. On May 12th, an AWD supporter called on to join AWD and wrote: “The Saints Are Coming!” Meant were right-wing terrorist mass murderers such as Dylann Roof, Robert Bowers, Brenton Tarrant and John Earnest, the AWD as saints with Christian iconography represents.

After the attack in the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018 (October 27), the web host GoDaddy blocked the Gab network used by AWD and many neo-Nazis. The domain registrar Epik offered itself as a replacement and won Gab and Bitchute as customers, among others. AWD continues to spread its propaganda there. Like many other neo-Nazis, AWD members have multiple accounts on the Minds network, founded in 2015 . Among other things, they exchange encrypted e-mail addresses and links to other AWD accounts on other platforms in order to maintain their internal communication even after blocking. The AWD main account on Mind has been inactive since mid-2017, but received more than 20,000 views by May 2019.

AWD members use and recommend the ProtonMail program from the Swiss company Proton Technologies for encrypted internal communication . A spokesman emphasized that the company would block accounts or block users as soon as they learned that they were using ProtonMail for criminal purposes. To do this, they are working together with the Swiss law enforcement authorities.

Notice plans

AWD propagates guerrilla warfare and terrorist attacks with the aim of overthrowing the US government and sparking a "race war". AWD primarily threatens blacks, migrants, homosexuals, Jews and Muslims and is planning, among other things, attacks on the water and electricity supply in the USA and on nuclear power plants in order to cause a meltdown .

On May 17, 2017, Russell posted the 342-page manual Tactics of the Crescent Moon: Militant Muslim Combat Methods as a PDF at Iron March . It describes paramilitary tactics used by Islamists in Chechnya , Mujahideen in Afghanistan and Hezbollah in Lebanon , including dealing with landmines . On May 19, the day he was arrested, Russell's Iron-March account disappeared . But he still tried to send instructions on how to build bombs to AWD members while he was in custody.

His successor Denton has been calling on AWD members since 2018 to pay money into a joint fund and to acquire real estate in rural areas in order to break away from the "system" and to be able to implement the AWD goals. He plans to use these properties to attack US federal agencies and urban infrastructure such as subway stations and waterworks.

Training camp

AWD members are armed and ready to use their weapons. In so-called hate camps , they are preparing for the “race war”, which they see as imminent, with target practice, some of which is led by US soldiers . According to a dropout, newcomers are subjected to waterboarding , among other things .

Michael Lloyd Hubsky ("Komissar"), leader of the AWD cell in Nevada, organizes AWD training camps there. He was considering blowing up power plants and gas pipelines in the United States. He has a map of the west coast with such targets and is allowed to carry firearms concealed. He described how thermite grenades can be made at home and rifles upgraded to fully automatic weapons. He is seeking a federal license to manufacture rifles in order to create a weapons storage room for AWD. He organized shooting training in Death Valley , Nevada, and made attending private combat training in Front Sight near Las Vegas compulsory for new AWD recruits to train them in the use of machine guns, knife fighting, wrestling, climbing and rappelling. In the fall of 2017, AWD held a hate camp in the Shawnee National Forest, Illinois. The ten participants came from Texas, Kansas , Oklahoma, and New Jersey . In Washington state, AWD members met in an abandoned cement factory (“Devil's Tower”) near the small town of Concrete (Washington) and shouted the slogan “Gas the kikes, race war now!” While they fired their volleys. AWD propaganda videos document this.

Kaleb James Cole ("Khimaere") organizes these exercises and creates the videos for them. He lives in Blaine, Washington , runs his state's AWD cell, and owns an AK-47 with a large ammunition magazine. He had previously lived in Bellingham, Washington, and in Anacortes he had followed a Jewish shopkeeper with Nazi flags in front of his shop. He has significant influence on AWD's propaganda, recruitment, and organization. Cole and another AWD member from the USA toured Poland in December 2018 and posed for propaganda photos wearing AWD skull masks in front of the Auschwitz concentration camp . US border guards found the photos on the return trip to the USA. US authorities then took nine firearms from Cole, including a Kalashnikov assault rifle.

Murders

In the spring of 2017, Arthurs and Russell moved into a joint apartment in Tampa, Florida. Arthurs had dropped out of school and was unemployed. A little later, 18-year-old Andrew Oneschuk and 22-year-old Jeremy Himmelman moved in with them. Both were AWD members from Massachusetts . On May 19, 2017, Arthurs murdered Oneschuk and Himmelman. According to the FBI report , he first took hostages, confessed to the murders, but let them go and arrest himself. He led the investigators to the apartment with the murder victims, where they found Russell. The AWD founder was wearing Florida Army National Guard camouflage clothing and had just found his murdered comrades. In his room there was a framed picture of the mass murderer Timothy McVeigh, racist and Nazi propaganda writings. A large SS flag hung on the wall next to the dead ; on a shelf lay a black steel helmet , many copies of Hitler's Mein Kampf and the Turner Diaries . Russell's garage was full of bomb-making materials, including sacks of potassium chlorate , potassium nitrate, and iron oxide, as well as ammonium nitrate and nitromethane . Timothy McVeigh used this mixture for his attack in 1995. There was also a refrigerator full of hexamethylene triperoxide diamine (HMTD). This highly explosive substance is popular with terrorists around the world because it is easy to make yourself using recipes that are circulating online. Parts of a pipe bomb, self-made time fuses from rifle boxes, empty ammunition containers with fuses as detonators, radioactive material and two counting tubes were also found .

In an interrogation by the local police, Arthurs named contradicting motives for the crime: he wanted to prevent attacks planned by the roommates; he had previously converted to Islam and became an ISIS supporter; his two roommates mocked his new faith. All four flat share residents were members of the AWD. Your apartment served as an AWD center. AWD was oriented towards the terror group The Order of the 1980s. Russell and those killed were experts in bomb construction and had planned a bomb attack on a nearby power plant with the HMTD. In addition, Russell had announced and planned attacks on countless people, government buildings, nuclear power plants, synagogues, power lines and the like. He got firearms and showed his roommates how to use them. If given the chance, he would purchase the confiscated explosives again. He had joined the Florida National Guard in order to receive combat training and equipment useful for AWD. The group is attractive to US soldiers and is aiming to recruit them. AWD has 60 to 70 permanent members who can be determined from decrypted AWD chats. Arthurs repeatedly offered to help: he would open his computer and it would be easy to break into the computers of other AWD members. That could definitely expose major terrorist plans and save lives. The interrogator promised to report Arthur's information to the FBI.

Russell admitted during interrogation that he was a National Socialist and member of the AWD, had manufactured the HMTD and owned the other fabrics. However, he claimed that he was only using it to practice for a military engineering course, making fireworks, and using it to inflate balloons. One expert denied that HTMD was suitable for this.

Despite the findings and Arthur's statements, the FBI released Russell after the first interrogation and took him back to his apartment. Thereupon he immediately got himself firearms, ammunition and bulletproof body protection, loaded them into his car and left the city to the south. He was arrested on the way. The police who stopped him believed he was planning a massacre. There were two rifles, ammunition, binoculars and a skull mask in his car. His companion, the 20-year-old neo-Nazi William James Tschantre , had given up his job the day before and withdrew all his savings to move away with Russell. He testified that they bought guns and ammunition and wanted to go south to no destination with no intention of harming anyone. Russell said he legally acquired the guns for hunting. The prosecutors requested an arrest warrant against him for illegal possession of explosives and the risk of flight.

According to the indictment, Tschantre was also an AWD member. According to him, AWD in Florida had around 30 members at the time. He shared with Russell in an Internet forum about fascism, Nazism and "current trends" of hatred of the government and visited gun shops with him. He knows Russell's roommate and planned to move in with them before the murders. Russell had checked out willing AWD supporters to exclude “complete idiots”. Russell refused to testify about AWD. Because of Arthur's statements, however, the investigators saw enough evidence for serious attack plans and requested that he be arrested as an extreme threat. Russell was charged with possession of unregistered explosives. Until then, the authorities only noticed AWD through leaflets; the murders and finds afterwards made the group widely known for the first time. Neo-Nazi websites described the AWD members who were killed as "fallen Aryan brothers" and the perpetrator as a Muslim traitor.

Russell joined the Florida National Guard in February 2016. After his arrest, their leadership investigated how one could overlook his neo-Nazi sentiments. According to the report, he wore an AWD tattoo on his shoulder, but the U.S. military did not have a file to match such tattoos. Superiors had warned him twice for making statements against homosexuals. He had asked for protective vests and took them home. But he had not tried to recruit soldiers for AWD and had not shown his right-wing extremist stance: therefore it was not negligent to take him on and train him. The report did not contain Arthur's statements and warnings to other military agencies about AWD.

Although, according to ProPublica, at least seven former US soldiers were identified as AWD members in the following year, the US Army did not open an investigation into this until the end of 2018. The FBI did not interview Arthur's father, to whom he first confessed, or a quarry company whose site Russell had mapped out by the end of 2018. The mass murderer Timothy McVeigh had stolen detonators from such a quarry for his attack. An FBI explosives expert testified that Russell's materials were suitable for a similar attack. However, the FBI left the AWD members unmolested and did not disband the group so that they could continue to recruit and train weapons in their hat camps .

Russell was sentenced to five years in prison in January 2018. Arthurs was declared culpable in February 2018 and was admitted to a mental health facility.

The 17-year-old Nicholas Giampa from Lorton (Virginia) has radicalized himself from an enthusiastic Donald Trump fan to a neo-Nazi and AWD supporter since spring 2016. His Twitter account @ doctorpepper35 showed this process. Right from the start he was often racist and anti-Semitic against Trump's critics, calling them “kike”, “cucks” or “globalist scum” and wrote something like: “Go back to the gas chamber .” He claimed that Trump's opponent Hillary Clinton literally had Murdered people and affirmed the actions of dictator Bashar al-Assad in the civil war in Syria since 2011 . From Trump's election victory in November 2016, Giampa stopped tweeting. When he took it up again in July 2017, he had befriended a schoolmate. On July 26, when Trump expelled transgender people from the U.S. Army, Giampa boasted that he had induced a transgender person to commit suicide and encouraged others to do so. They are not people so that human rights do not apply to them. He now retweeted prominent representatives of the alt-right movement such as Michael Peinovich and sought contact with the racist Traditionalist Worker Party , Identity Evropa , VDARE and Vanguard America . In September 2017, he retweeted a quote from British fascist Oswald Mosley , who defended the Hitler salute. From then on, he praised the Turner Diaries and James Mason's book Siege , encouraged reading, and praised the account @RyanAtomwaffen's book collection , which included Siege and Hitler's Mein Kampf. In October, Giampa mowed a large swastika in a field in his neighborhood. In response to complaints, his parents said they knew and would take care of it. His mother defended Confederate generals on her Facebook page and posted a photo of her son with a machine gun at the ready. Days later, Giampa praised Hitler as a hero on Twitter. From November he called himself "Nazi" and the Democratic candidate for governorship in Virginia "Jew doll". The Jews are "everyone's enemy". He welcomed fascist marches in Poland as an attempt to get rid of Muslims and Jews: both were unable to adapt and threatened national culture. He constantly worried that white men might lose their access to firearms. On November 20, 2017, he wrote that the murderer Charles Manson, who died the previous day, had "done the right thing". On November 23, he called for Jews and transgender people to be shot. Jews are good targets for target practice. On November 25th, he blamed Jews for communism and World War II . On November 26th, he denied the Holocaust. A few days later, he retweeted a call from Vanguard America , AWD and other neo-Nazi groups to unite for a “white revolution”. On December 5th, he supported the politician Paul Nehlen , who had demanded an unlimited ban on Muslims and incited against “Jewish billionaires”. Giampa's user profile last showed a skeleton wearing an SS helmet.

On December 20, 2017, his girlfriend's mother spotted some of these tweets on her daughter's cell phone. She urged them to part with Giampa and informed the headmaster of the find. On December 22, 2017 at night, Giampa broke into his girlfriend's home in Reston, Virginia , shot her parents and then tried to shoot himself, but survived. He was charged with two murders as a minor.

In Lake Forest, California on January 3, 2018, 20-year-old AWD member Samuel Woodward murdered 19-year-old former classmate Blaze Bernstein , a homosexual and Jewish, with more than 20 knife wounds. After his arrest, Woodward gave Bernstein's advances as a motive. The other AWD members celebrated him as a “one-man demolition force for gay Jews” and created T-shirts with his portrait and a swastika on his forehead for his criminal trial. According to statements from two school friends and an AWD dropout, Woodward (username “Arn”) had been an avowed neo-Nazi and anti-Semite for a long time. On social media, he called himself a "national socialist". He had joined AWD in early 2016 and had attended AWD meetings in Texas and a three-day AWD course in firearms, wrestling, and survival training. Photographs show him in rough terrain in Texas; In some photos he wears a skull mask and shows the Hitler salute, in others his face can be seen. He is said to have recruited more AWD members in California. Before the murder, he had encouraged homosexuals to contact them on social media. Bernstein had responded to such an invitation and arranged to meet Woodward. Since both knew each other only briefly and the AWD websites constantly portray Jews and homosexuals as being destroyed, an anti-Semitic motive was assumed. Woodward has been charged with hate murder and faces a life sentence with no early release.

More crimes

The then 17-year-old marine and AWD supporter Vassilis Pistolis ( VassilistheGreek ) also took part in the right-wing extremist march in Charlottesville 2017 . He had previously announced in the Iron March that he would kill someone there if necessary. In clashes, he kicked several counter-demonstrators and hit them with a wooden club, including a transgender woman, even when she was on the ground. He then boasted online that he had “cracked three skulls” and showed photos of a bloody flag with the comment “Not my blood”. At another right-wing extremist rally, he waved a flag with the AWD symbol. After internal criticism, he left AWD in November 2017 and joined the Traditionalist Workers Party . ProPublica journalists identified him with photos, videos, internal Iron March chats and statements from an AWD dropout. In response to inquiries, he denied his presence in Charlottesville and only admitted his chat posts, but stated that they were jokes and that he had just spied on AWD. As of May 2018, the United States Marine Corps investigated the allegations. In October 2017, a Marine veteran reported Pistolis' behavior to the Marine Corps. In June 2018, a military court sentenced Pistolis to one month in prison for disobedience and false testimony and downgraded his rank. What role his right-wing extremist activities played in this remained unclear. The Marine Corps sought his release. Police investigations have been dropped.

After the assassination attempt in a synagogue in Pittsburgh on October 27, 2018, the neo-Nazi Edward Clark ( DC_Stormer ) who was friends with the assassin committed suicide. His older brother Jeffrey Clark had previously welcomed letter bombs on the Gab network that neo-Nazis had sent to prominent Democratic politicians ( Barack Obama , Hillary Clinton ) and to George Soros : They were a “dry run-up” to things that were to come. He later praised the Pittsburgh assassin Robert Bowers as a "hero". Each of his murder victims deserved death and worse. He considered killing Jews and African Americans himself. Relatives called the police. She found ammunition, bulletproof vests, helmets, a swastika flag, a gallows rope and AWD leaflets at the brothers' home in Washington, DC . According to research by ProPublica and Frontline , the brothers belonged to the right-wing extremist group Vanguard America and had switched to the AWD after the march in Charlottesville. Jeffrey Clark was arrested and charged with gun and drug possession. During his interrogation, he admitted membership in racist groups and said that he and his brother had been interested in firearms since the 2016 presidential election because they expected a civil war to come. Robert Bowers murdered Jews in retaliation for the migrant caravan with which Jews wanted to destroy America. He had known Bowers' Gab account, but never had personal contact with him and did not mean calls for violence seriously. However, a judge interpreted Clark's posts as a specific call for attacks similar to Bowers' and extended his pre-trial detention. According to internal chats, both brothers had belonged to the AWD cell in Virginia until at least September 2017. In October 2018, Clark received a suspended sentence for illegally possessing weapons.

In February 2019, the FBI arrested the AWD member Benjamin Bogard , who had planned a bomb attack. Investigators found videos of child pornography and rape on his cell phone .

On June 5, 2019, the FBI arrested Brian Patrick Baynes from Fairfax . In May 2018 he had acquired an assault rifle and ammunition magazine with false information about his drug use. He later tried to buy a pistol illegally. He had three assault rifles, 14 magazines with more than 1,300 loads of ammunition. He admitted all allegations. According to internal AWD chats and statements from a dropout, he belonged to the AWD cell in Virginia (username Ted Bundy ).

In August 2019, the FBI arrested Conor Climo , a former soldier and security guard. He was charged with planned attacks on a synagogue and LGBT bar. He was an AWD member and also associated with the AWD subgroup fire war division .

In August 2019, 34-year-old Cameron Brunson Blake carved anti-Semitic slogans in a synagogue in Los Angeles and threatened a Jewish man and his child on the property that he would kill them. After his arrest, investigators found references to the AWD in Blake's online posts. He was charged with a hate crime. He faces six years in prison.

On September 21, 2019, the FBI arrested 24-year-old soldier Jarrett William Smith in Fort Riley, Kansas. He had wanted to fight with the right-wing extremist "Azov Regiment" in Ukraine since 2016 and, as a soldier, had been in contact with a US citizen who had fought in Ukraine since 2017. On social media, he described how to turn cell phones into bombs. According to the indictment, he planned first to destroy the radio mast of a local news station, then to attack the headquarters of a large news network in the United States with a car bomb. In conversations with an agent whom he thought was a comrade, he described the construction of the car bomb and revealed that he wanted to meet other "radicals" and kill anti- Nazi members. During the police interrogation, he confessed that he regularly gave instructions on how to build bombs on the Internet and that he also gave this information to people who informed him of murderous intentions. He wanted to cause chaos with it and he didn't care if people died because of his knowledge. He faces up to 20 years in prison. Smith is one of many US soldiers who forge terrorist plans in contact with racist organizations such as AWD. FBI agent Ali Soufan said that around 17,000 foreigners, including US citizens, have visited Ukraine since 2014 in order to acquire right-wing extremists' paramilitary skills and then use them in their own country.

In September 2019, the FBI arrested Andrew Jon Thomasberg , 21 . He was an employee of a local gun shop, had ordered an assault rifle without the knowledge of his boss and then sold it privately to Baynes. The FBI later found 20 firearms in his home. According to AWD chats, he joined the AWD with Baynes and other neo-Nazis after the march in Charlottesville from Vanguard America and then, according to witness statements, headed the AWD cell in Virginia. He showed himself under the username GrecoViking as an avowed National Socialist who wanted to bring about a race war, hated non- whites, adored Manson and Mason and knew about weapons production. He was interested in mythical Nazi stories. He wanted to find the legendary "blood flag" of the NSDAP again, to preserve it and to carry it on as the "torch of the NS". He engraved the AWD logo on one of his weapons and showed a photo of it on the AWD discord server. Compared to Baynes, he described the right-wing extremist assassins Robert Bowers and Brenton Tarrant as "saints" and also praised the attack on a synagogue in Poway (April 27, 2019): unlike AWD, the perpetrator had at least done something. He himself was ready to hurt non-whites and was on the verge of gunning down African Americans in a mall like Dylann Roof. - The arrests from June to September 2019 followed a roughly one-year FBI investigation into the AWD, which showed a considerably increased risk of right-wing extremist terrorist attacks and massacres.

On November 4, 2019, police arrested 23-year-old Aiden Bruce-Umbaugh , who was traveling with the leader of the AWD cell in Washington state, Kaleb James Cole . According to the police report, both wore camouflage clothing. In their car they found two rifles (Sig Sauer, AR-15) and two assault rifles (AK 47), a pistol, up to 2000 rounds of ammunition and small amounts of drugs. A court in Lubbock, Texas issued an arrest warrant indicting Bruce-Umbaugh of illicit gun possession. From 2017 to 2019, at least 11 AWD members in the United States received prison sentences for a variety of crimes, including murder, illegal gun possession and possession of child pornography.

The 23-year-old FKD supporter Conor C. was also arrested in 2019. He had deposited explosives and an illegal weapon in his apartment in an attempt to attack Jews and the LGBTIQ community.

In February 2020, the FBI arrested five other AWD members and charged them with coordinating a campaign of intimidation against journalists and threatening certain perceived opponents, including faculty from Old Dominion University, an African-American Baptist church and former cabinet member Kirstjen Nielsen . In Virginia, John Cameron Denton and others were charged: They are said to have triggered police operations up to 134 times with false emergency calls about an alleged danger situation ( swatting ) and threatened investigative journalists from ProPublica because of their reports on the AWD. According to the authorities, further charges were directed against Kaleb James Cole in Seattle, 24-year-old Cameron Brandon Shea from Redmond, Washington, a recruiter from AWD, 20-year-old Taylor Ashley Parker-Dipeppe from Spring Hill, Florida, who was 20 year old Johnny Roman Garza from Queen Creek, Arizona, John William Kirby Kelley (a student at the university concerned) and two foreigners.

Related groups

Since 2017 AWD members have been traveling from the USA to Great Britain, Germany, Poland , the Czech Republic and the Ukraine in order to recruit followers there too. According to British counter-terrorism experts, groups similar to AWD-USA now exist in Australia, Canada, Germany, Great Britain, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. Because of these international contacts and networking, Europol proposed in 2019 that suspicious right-wing extremists in this environment be placed on an EU terrorist list analogous to Islamists .

Experts now see all of these groups as part of the AWD network. They classify them as a network of "white power terrorists", predominantly made up of young men, who operate on the concept of "leaderless resistance" and benefit from the strengthening of right-wing populist groups and parties, from which they also Propaganda de facto ”.

The Base

In November 2016, an unknown neo-Nazi with the pseudonym Norman Spear , who claims to be a war veteran, founded the social network The Base with a login page and an active Twitter account ( @ normanspear1 ) on the Internet. The name and concept of the network may be deliberately based on al-Qaida (Arabic for “the base”). Spear wants to bring together terrorist neo-Nazis of all kinds and prepare with a training program for a violent uprising against the US government known as “race war”. He sees all western states secretly controlled by Jewish stockholders and wants to unite “white nationalists” in the fight against them in order to accelerate the collapse of state governments worldwide and to build a purely white society out of the ruins. To this end, Spear and his colleagues produce terrorist propaganda in encrypted chats, organize personal meetings and discuss violent attacks on minorities, especially Jews and African Americans. They provide a comprehensive collection of manuals on Lone Wolf Tactics, Firearms, Bombs and Chemical Weapons Manufacture, Data Acquisition, Interrogation Techniques, Counter-Surveillance and Guerrilla Warfare. The network offers paramilitary camping courses designed to enable participants to participate in terrorist attacks. A selection process is used to assign applicants to suitable groups who will train them in the terrorist trade. Applicants with experience in the military and handling explosives are preferred.

The Base quickly received support from neo-Nazis and had around 50 members in November 2018. The AWD, the new Eco-Fascist Order (EFO), the Volkish group and other right-wing extremist organizations are among them. They see the network as a coalition with a division of labor between writing, education, propaganda, organizing and carrying out violent actions. Spear presented the base in a podcast The Darkest Hour in September 2018 and emphasized: The white power movement is still mostly taking place on the Internet, and that has to change fundamentally. His group is geared towards real training and wants to build a national squad of coaches. One does not have to turn every weak white man into an Aryan warrior for victory, but only unite the best comrades who are ready to do what is necessary in battle.

Spear received encouragement from various prominent neo-Nazis and senior AWD members on the Gab network and on Twitter, even after deleting his original accounts there. The base continues to distribute images of soldiers with balaclavas , maps and rifles to illustrate detailed military planning. The map of a human body shows the best places to slash and stab an opponent in close combat for self-defense. In their secured chats, members design memes to infiltrate a neo-Nazi agenda into popular culture. Above all, the user Poilu creates posters and memes from photos that group members upload of themselves or revered militant role models. The manufacturers are not concerned with popularity, but with the hoped-for effect of inducing individuals to engage in terrorist violence. The group also advertises members on neo-Nazi sites such as Fascist Forge , the successor to the Iron March . Spear aims to have an open, non-covert Internet presence in the medium term. Actions that could not be assigned to his group could also spread their message and accelerate the achievement of their goals. Base members recommend European allies to dig up undetonated bombs and ammunition from the Second World War and use them as unconventional explosive devices (IED) or grenades for their own purposes. Base members with usernames such as Rimbaud and Grimoire supported the Pittsburgh assassin Robert Bowers and discussed how his attack could be used to escalate with similar violence. Violence, especially against Jews, is to be affirmed, since no Jew is innocent. Grimoire extolled the value of his combat experience by claiming that he had machine guns killed civilians, including women and children, in Afghanistan. However, like AWD , Base members only discuss plans for specific terrorist attacks at real meetings, for example at their paramilitary training courses known as hate camps.

Applicants can register with pseudonyms, but must indicate “race” and gender, which neo-Nazi or pro-white organization they belong to and what military, scientific and technical experience they have. The application form filled in at Wordpress is then checked by the base . If it is accepted, the applicant is invited to a Riot chat server , a system for encrypted messages. Members can also invite users directly to this server. There the applicant will be checked again. The base's private chat contains eight channels: a general discussion room ( empire ) and smaller channels for self-defense, books, music, action reports, coaches, survival training. On the library page, the user will find links to upload PDF copies of books. This archive has 20 sections including guerrilla war tactics, weapons manufacturing, survival methods, military espionage, weapon use. In each section there are manuals for download, such as for the manufacture of explosives and chemical weapons. They are also compiled from weapons magazines, military manuals, and internet blogs. The Guerrilla Warfare Channel contains an archive of videos on BitChute . The eighth chat channel is for the user's region: from there he can send direct messages, arrange meetings and training. Each region has its trainer who is selected based on what skills they can teach their comrades. Photographs and experience reports document regular, national and international member meetings. To encourage this, Spear offers a monthly price for members who show the most offline activity and who can take meetings with at least two members. There should also be several long-term projects, including a secure communication network on Ham Radios (amateur radio).

Because it is attractive to all violent neo-Nazis, practically introduces them to individual terrorist violence and trains autonomous trainers for it, observers like the SPLC and ADL see an enormous risk potential for public safety in the base . Terrorism expert Amarnath Amarasingam sees the growing cooperation with terrorist groups such as AWD as a sign of an escalation in the neo-Nazi scene , which is cause for great concern. They put aside ideological differences for the common cause in order to share their limited resources in the interests of all. The relatively small number of members in particular increases the risk of terrorist attacks by "lone wolves".

On September 21 and 22, 2019, 18-year-old neo-Nazi Richard Tobin from New Jersey and volunteers sprayed several synagogues in Michigan and Wisconsin with graffiti of swastikas and wolf fishing rods . After Tobin's arrest, the FBI found in his computer data that he was an active member of The Base and AWD and arranged mutual contacts between the two groups. He headed a cell at the base and had planned vandalism at synagogues across the United States under the name "Operation Kristallnacht" to commemorate the November 1938 pogroms . He also created propaganda for AWD, sold AWD insignia and raised money for a new edition of James Mason's writings. During his interrogation, Tobin said he was considering a suicide bombing or an attack with a barrel-bombed truck (like Timothy McVeigh). He was also about to slaughter African Americans in a shopping mall with a machete . According to the FBI, his computer data showed his "obsession" with Nazi propaganda, terror and brutal acts of mass violence, including edited videos of the terrorist attack on two mosques in Christchurch , photos of murder victims there and of acts of violence against Jews, African-Americans and other minorities, and instructions for building Truck bombs. With the indictment against Tobin, his group, its close connection with the AWD and its dangerousness became better known for the first time.

Antipodean Resistance

On February 29, 2016, Australian neo-Nazis (user names " Chud " and " Kehlsteinhaus ") advertised at the Iron March neo-Nazi forum for "younger National Socialists, 14-25" for a new, as yet nameless group. She will "take the fight to the enemy", for example to a synagogue, in order to "intimidate the scum" and "let them know that you mean business". From October 10, 2016, the Antipodean Resistance (AR) group emerged with its own partial forum at the Iron March . The AR flag is blue with a black swastika. The AR logo shows a skull mask and a white Akubra hat resting on a swastika, with a black sun in the wreath as a background.

Like AWD, AR represents an openly National Socialist, extremely anti-Semitic, racist and homophobic ideology and calls for guerrilla warfare and terror. All Australians of non-European origin are viewed as enemies, but “the Jews” are considered the primary and absolute enemy who, as world Jewry, supposedly controls banks, governments and media and is planning a “white genocide” through mass migration to predominantly white countries. AR member "Xav", whose user profile named "Jews gas" as his "interest", quoted the group motto: "We are the Hitlers you have been waiting for." Others wrote: "We National Socialists here will be like our brothers overseas bring back our nations ”. They don't want masses, but fanatics who are ready to fight and who actively strive for “the rebirth of our people” in everyday life. The immediate goal is to unite all fanatical National Socialist young Australians in a youth movement and further spread their own ideology, mainly through posters, stickers and physical activities, later also through marches and rallies.

Right from the start, AR members emphasized their contacts and ideological proximity to the AWD in the USA, the British National Action (NA), the Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM) in Scandinavia and others. On February 21, 2017, the AR website named NA, NRM and the historical NSDAP as the most important inspiration. AR banners from January 2018 on freeway bridges carried the sentence “White Revolution is the only solution”, which had also appeared on Iron March posters in Toronto (Canada) in November 2017 . The skull symbolism adopted by the SS and the right-wing extremist numerical code 1488 connect AR with the Iron March and other neo-Nazi groups that emerged there. Although the AWD is not mentioned on the AR website, AR and AWD use identical images, symbols, masks, slogans such as Join your local Nazis in their propaganda material , have the same conditions of admission and offer similar activities, especially combat and firearms training. AR relies on the same ideological models, such as William Luther Pierce and his Turner diaries and James Mason and his book Siege . There are online and real contacts between members of both groups.

According to its own information from January 2018, AR had around 300 members in Australia by then, mostly young men. They keep their identities as secret as possible, always hide their faces in videos and photos with skull masks and do not show any tattoos. According to evidence, many members come from wealthy families and attend private schools. Subgroups exist in Adelaide , Ballarat , Bathurst , Bega , Bendigo , Brisbane , Devonport , Gold Coast , Hobart , Launceston , Melbourne , Newcastle , Perth , Sunshine Coast , Sydney , Toowoomba and Townsville . Since February 2018, there has also been an AR branch for women called the Antipodean Resistance Women's Alliance (ARWA).

AR's preferred training areas include Grampians and Wilsons Promontory in Victoria, Brisbane Forest Park , Mount Glorious , Mount Beerburrum , the Gold Coast and Queensland Hinterlands, Mount Warning and others. However, the main activity of AR is spreading propaganda. AR posters have few recurring themes: Jews, homosexuals, migrants or Aborigines and Nazis. They demonize Jews as poisoners of Australian society, urge homosexuals to commit suicide, show Hitler portraits and the striker slogan "The Jews are our misfortune". This began on October 9, 2016 in Melbourne: An AR poster showed the shooting of a homosexual with the text "Get out of our streets with the sodomite filth". On December 3, 2016, an AR poster called “Stop the Hordes” called for the removal or killing of “duneskins, shitskins, niggers, chinks”. A hand marked with the Star of David above it should symbolize “the Jew” who is supposed to be behind the immigration of non-whites. On February 13, 2017, the appeal “Reject Jewish Poison” followed with a caricature in the style of a striker and the slogan “National Socialism or Nothing.” For the “Hitler birthday” on April 20, 2017 AR posters called: “Legalize the execution of Jews ”,“ Executed Jews ”(linked to the photo of a shooting of Jews in 1941), 420 Blaze It (related to crematoria in Nazi extermination camps ) and 420 Raise It (related to the Hitler salute). On Australia Day 2018, AR posters fueled hatred against Aborigines and called for the deportation of Chinese students. Hundreds of such posters were distributed to universities at night to recruit young members.

In September 2018, AR members put swastika stickers on the Jacklyn Trad office window in Queensland. On the same day, the Prime Minister had sharply criticized a speech by Fraser Anning , in which he called for a “final solution” for migration and thus alluded to the Nazi term “ final solution to the Jewish question ” for the Holocaust. In addition, she had removed five employees from Fraser's Katter's Australian Party because they refused to distance themselves from Fraser's choice of words. She interpreted the stickers as an attempt to intimidate.

In October 2018, a parliamentary inquiry in New South Wales found that 35 younger MPs from the National Party of Australia had neo-Nazi ties. One of them appeared in an AR propaganda video with statements celebrating Hitler. 15 MPs from the party resigned. The party expelled 20 members for life after investigative collective Unicorn Riot exposed their far-right stance and contacts in chats on Discord . Lisa Sandford and Justin Beulah , who later dropped out, also spread AR propaganda in 2017.

In 2018, anti-Semitic incidents in Australia increased 59 percent from the previous year. Right-wing extremist vandalism, graffiti and threats on the Internet peaked since 2014. The increase was largely due to activities by AR, including attempts to infiltrate the National Party, recruit new members and spread Nazi ideology. The perpetrators were, on average, younger, better educated and more politically adept than before.

The later right-wing extremist mass murderer Brenton Tarrant posted a five-star rating for a company owned by the 24-year-old fascist Marcus Christensen in December 2017 . This belonged to the Australian neo-Nazi group Lads Society and distributed AR propaganda images on the Internet. Their logo with the skull symbol adorned his bank card. He denied direct contact with Tarrant; the leader of the Lad Society , however, admitted online contacts with Tarrant since 2015 and said he had tried to recruit Tarrant for his group.

Northern Order

In spring 2018 the AWD group Northern Order became known in Canada . It was initially classified by the group Antifasciste Montreal as a pure internet phenomenon, until journalists from Vice found a member in Ontario : the 22-year-old chief propagandist with the username Dark Foreigner . In 2017, at the Iron March , he introduced himself as a National Socialist from Ontario who wanted to practice “fascist activism” in Canada, acquire the skills useful for propaganda and train a comrade in it. He blamed former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau for Canada's multicultural society and expressed himself anti-Semitic. He showed particular hatred towards queer people whom he wanted to be "the very first to gas". He illustrated books by Alexander Slavros , the founder of the Iron March , created numerous typical AWD graphics and sold them online as prints on t-shirts and mugs. On platforms like 4chan , pictures of him were always shown in debates about AWD; other neo-Nazis obtained his permission to do so. It is unclear whether he also made AWD videos. His followers included a dark folk band in Norway and Jordan Peterson , a controversial professor at the University of Toronto . On January 29, 2018, exactly one year after the right-wing extremist attack on the Center culturel islamique de Québec , posters with his pictures and the signature Northern Order appeared in a mosque in Ottawa .

By July 2018, Vice found ten Canadian members of Northern Order who were coordinating their activities with AWD-USA. One member ( Alba ) openly planned to create an autonomous ethnic state of all-white settlers in rural British Columbia , similar to what neo-Nazi Craig Cobb attempted in Leith ( North Dakota ) in 2012 and AWD leader John Cameron Denton in the United States aspires to. Alba presents himself as a member of the Canadian Army. Other members of his group seek military training in insurgency tactics. Dark Foreigner has already participated in an AWD hate camp . Stickers from the group in Toronto and Montreal demanded: “join the white jihad.” There are also other Canadian groups that represent white supremacy , strive for an ethnic state and use the images and ideology of AWD. Canadian counter-terrorism experts consider Northern Order's approach of refraining from publicly effective activities, coordinating with AWD and secretly preparing for terrorist attacks across borders as a warning sign.

Solar War Division

From October 2017 to April 2018 posters and graffiti appeared in Cardiff ( Wales ) with the AWD slogan Join your local Nazis , Nazi Zone , swastikas and links to a website belonging to the right-wing extremist System Resistance Network . In September 2018, Wales Extremism and Counter Terrorism Unit (WECTU) police arrested a 19-year-old as a suspect.

According to months of research by the BBC , the Sun War Division was created in 2017 as a British subgroup of the AWD. It was initially estimated to have a maximum of ten to fifteen members. Its founder and leader is the 22-year-old student Andrew Dymock (pseudonym "Blitzy") from Bath . He and other members were previously active in the System Resistance Network , which committed racist attacks in ten British cities. Oskar Koczorowski, a student from London, is considered the chief propagandist . He was previously part of the neo-Nazi National Action , which was banned in December 2016 as the first British right-wing extremist group since 1945. Both communicated in encrypted chats with AWD-USA; Dymock planned to visit AWD members in the United States. He described his group as "nuclear weapons with fewer guns," "fully on universal order," and declared that "all police officers should be killed" and "rape to death." Koczorowski showed photos of himself with the AWD mask near the British Parliament and a video showing a British flag being burned. Propaganda pictures of the group portrayed Prince Harry as a “racial traitor” because of his marriage to a “mixed race woman”, demanded that he be shot, glorified the Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik and called for the murder of white women who engage with non-white men. Other members said they had encouraged young women to self-mutilate because of this and showed pictures of it. Other pictures showed a naked girl lying on the floor with a swastika and runes carved into her skin , while Dymock swings a book by James Mason through the air about her. Dymock is said to have been questioned by British police on allegations of sexual assault on underage girls. When asked, he denied the allegations.

On December 6, 2018, one day after the BBC's initial report, three members of the group were arrested and charged with producing and spreading terrorist propaganda on the Gab network, among others. Oskar Koczorowski and 19-year-old student Michal Szewczuk from Leeds admitted they had instigated terrorist attacks against Prince Harry and police officers. Szewczuk also admitted the possession of suitable documents. He had called for the "systematic slaughter" of women and rape of babies and had instructions on building bombs, practicing Islamist terror and a manual on "white resistance". Investigations have been initiated against the third group member.

In June 2019, Koczorowski was sentenced to 18 months 'probation and Szewczuk to more than four years' imprisonment. According to the judgment, the terrorist propaganda she had produced herself was uniformly violent and threatening, contained rape and execution, targeted non-whites and Jews, openly encouraged acts of violence against public figures and promoted the right-wing extremist terrorist groups “Sun War” and AWD, which in turn had a racist and anti-Semitic ideology , represented the complete exit from the "system" and intended terrorist violence. Experts had testified in detail the relationships between both groups and their dangerousness. Szewczuk's sentence was higher for violating previous parole terms, advocating extreme, violent misogyny on his own blog, and calling for the rape and beheading of infants and the torture of women. The Solar War Division is believed to be the most extreme neo-Nazi group in Britain since the National Action was banned in 2016 based on the results of the investigation .

Fire War Division

A neo-Nazi group called the Feuerkrieg Division (FKD) first appeared on various websites in Europe in January 2019. According to research by the Amadeu Antonio Foundation , the group wanted to distribute its leaflets in Belgium , Germany, Estonia , Great Britain, Ireland , Canada, the Netherlands , Norway and Russia in 2019 and then prove this with photos on their Telegram channel. Like the AWD, the FKD represents accelerationism according to James Mason (“victory culture”), calls for “racial war” or “holy war” or “white jihad” and for attacks on synagogues and mosques, claims that Jews control the “system” , encourages members to “sacrifice” themselves and use violence to “repair” the political and cultural “system” until there are “white ethnic states”, and shows pictures of self-made warheads. According to the ADL, the FKD had around 30 members worldwide in 2019. According to Spiegel, it had grown to around 70 people by February 2020, 32 of them in the USA, nine in Great Britain, and six each in Germany and Canada. The specialist book author and scene expert Roland Sieber estimates FKD to have a total of around 50 to 70 members. They are mostly young, ideologically stable and very violent neo-Nazis.

Its leader said he lived in the Netherlands, but the group also had at least one member in Estonia. He praised the murders of Dylann Roof and Robert Bowers: They had increased racial, religious and ethnic tensions and thus attracted more recruits to the National Socialist movement. In February 2019, FKD distributed propaganda material on WordPress , YouTube and the Gab network; FKD also had accounts on Twitter and Fascist Forge . Above all, people were addressed who were inspired by the book Siege to become active in real life. Through the Gab account, FKD distributed numerous images and texts that encourage violence against government officials, Jews, feminists, LGBT people, and leftists, including a picture of the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City and a poem that related to the murder Calls on Jews and synagogues burning.

Until June 2019, only one British FKD cell with its own emblem and email address was known. On June 13 and 14, 2019, the @FK_Division account in the Gab network announced that FKD had formed “official new cells” in Great Britain, Ireland and Germany. You are looking for additional members there. On August 3, 2019, the FKD account posted the picture of a skull pierced with swords, which appeared as the new FKD emblem in all subsequent posts. The poster referred to the mass murderers Dylann Roof and Brenton Tarrant, to the National Socialist Liberation Front (NSLF) from 1974 and contained photos of the Eternal Wignat , who appeared as FKD members. On August 5th, FKD announced on Telegram that a "Canadian cell" had been founded. A poster showed the Star of David on a map of Canada and the statements: “Our fire is growing. Only bullets will stop us! ”(English)“ God strafe Canada ”(German). As usual in the FKD propaganda, the poster contained the known e-mail address and the appeal Join your local Nazis . Many of the FKD posts on Telegram also recruit members in the United States, especially in California, Texas, New York, and the Great Lakes region . According to the detailed information, FKD members already live in these areas and have formed cells there or are aiming to do so. This raised the question of whether FKD could still be considered a European subgroup of AWD or how AWD should be viewed as an international right-wing extremist network.

The US soldier Jarrett William Smith (username “Anti-Kosmik”) arrested in September 2019 belonged to both the AWD and the FKD. An FKD leader from Estonia ( @CommanderFKD ) identified him as an FKD member in the right-wing extremist chat group Slovak's War Room on Telegram . After his arrest, FKD published a "tribute picture" of Smith and called him "our comrade". The communication decoded by anti-fascists shows that the FKD sees itself as an international group of its own, not as a Baltic or European part of the AWD. Nonetheless, in media reports, FKD is usually considered to be a splinter, branch or spin-off of AWD.

On October 5th, 2019 the FKD commander announced in the internal chat: “EksD has left the channel ... He will be back. Unless it fails, something big will happen ... Be silent, brothers. ”The next day, a self-made explosive device was lying in front of a building in Vilnius whose wall had been smeared with a swastika. The bomb didn't go off. On October 8th, a video entitled “Our threats are not empty” appeared on the FKD channel on Telegram, which showed press reports about the attempted attack and photographs of self-made explosive devices. On October 12th, "EksD" reported back to the FKD chat group: "Everyone probably knows why I have canceled ... The only question left is when you negroes will do your part." Other internal chat protocols published by Der Spiegel magazine uncovered, showed how FKD networks globally, spreads hatred and plans attacks.

As early as June 13, 2019, the FKD announced a German cell on its now deleted Gab channel "Feuerkrieg Division Official". From July 2019, FKD opened a Telegram channel. The first post related programmatically to National Socialism, to Anders Breivik, and announced “activism” with bloody images. On August 21, 2019, FKD called on Telegram to join the German group, again referring positively to National Socialism, the murder of Walter Lübcke and Brenton Tarrant's mass murder in Christchurch. On August 22nd, FKD published eight photographs of the posters they had hung up in Germany. On September 12th and October 16th they each posted graffiti from Germany. They also shared a photograph of a boy who was allegedly pushed by a refugee, actually by a mentally ill person, in front of a train in Frankfurt am Main. On October 28, FKD posted anti-refugee and racist images from Vienna and shared the live video of the assassin Stephan Balliet during the attack in Halle (Saale) in 2019 . The image and text contributions from FKD on Telegram are clearly anti-Semitic, racist, glorifying Nazi, terrorist and inciting violence. On the Telegram channel, FKD members network with sympathizers from many parts of the world and share instructions for building weapons.

According to the Spiegel report, the members of the German FKD cell call themselves “Teuton”, responsible for patches with the FKD logo, “Dekkit”, responsible for propaganda, “Napola88”, “Wolfskampf” (underage) and “Jus -ad-bellum ". The 22-year-old alleged leader called himself “ Heydrich ”, stated that he had completed military training with the Bundeswehr and built a weapon himself in the basement of his parents' house. In January 2020, he announced that he wanted to “become a saint”, for example through an act against “a house of the faith of bad people”. According to right-wing extremist language, he wanted to commit a major attack that was racist, Islamophobic, anti-Semitic, anti-feminist or against LGBTIQ.

When he asked in the same post about a suitable place for it and wanted to know who knew of such an attack target, the LKA Bayern arrested the man on February 5, 2020 in the Cham district at his parents' house. He had already got himself several weapons and built a weapon himself. The Munich Public Prosecutor's Office stated that he was urgently suspected of preparing a serious, state-endangering act of violence. Chat history on the Darknet or Telegram also shows the violence of the other FKD members, who said, for example: "We are not afraid of death and kill anyone who gets in our way". They wish synagogues should burn again, and they offer online means to do so, worship Robert Bowers, the Pittsburgh killer, the Christchurch assassin Brenton Tarrant, praise the murder of Walter Lübcke and the murders of Stephan Balliet. The co-founder Wolfram from the Netherlands stated in an interview that FKD initially only had one server, concentrated on online networking and then continued to grow through further activities. "Dekkit" visited the USA in 2019 and is said to have met with AWD members there, possibly to discuss a merger of the two groups.

The 22-year-old leader Fabian D. ("Heydrich") became the spokesman for the German FKD cell in mid-2019 , according to Spiegel research . He posed masked in photographs with his self-made rifle and Hitler's “Mein Kampf”. Like Stephan Balliet, he had not previously been noticed as a right-wing extremist and had no reference to the regional neo-Nazi scene. Apparently he radicalized himself through right-wing extremist chat groups on the Internet. Until his arrest he worked as an electrician in shifts in a medium-sized company. Security circles described him as a "gun fanatic" and "security fanatic". Shortly before, he had applied for a job in the IT department of the Bundeswehr.

According to a report by Eesti Ekspress , in January 2020 the police in Estonia identified a 13-year-old who had co-founded the FKD in October 2018 and who had appeared on the Internet as its “commander”. Accordingly, he was responsible for the recruitment of new members and decided on their admission. He shared bomb-making instructions, requested an attack in London, and suggested that the "100. Birthday ”of the NSDAP in February 2020 to organize military training camps. Since young people under the age of 14 are not criminally responsible in Estonia, the police did not arrest him, but they did manipulate him with a home visit and other legal action. Other FKD members were also arrested in other states, including a 16-year-old in Great Britain. He had instructions for building weapons and bombs on his computer. A 24-year-old in the US state of Nevada confessed in February that he had planned attacks on a synagogue and an LGBTQ club. On February 8, 2020, the FKD announced its dissolution online. According to internal chats, however, this statement was only intended for the public; they will continue under a new name.

Nuclear Weapons Division Germany

According to research by the magazine Der Spiegel , an AWD member traveled from the USA to Germany at the end of 2017 and confirmed this in internal chats with a photograph of the Wewelsburg , a former SS Ordensburg near Paderborn . In these chats, AWD-USA announced a German-language propaganda video that appeared on the Internet in early June 2018. In it, men with skull masks announce the founding of a German AWD and declare: “National Socialism is alive. German freedom fighter, follows the nuclear weapons division. We are preparing for the long, final battle in the rubble that is soon to come. The knives are already being sharpened. ”The video shows torch-lit marches by masked“ immortals ”in southern Brandenburg and Bautzen in Saxony in 2011 and 2012 as well as a parade of the neo-Nazi party“ The III. Weg ”, in which British neo-Nazis from the National Action group also took part. Further scenes greet the “true comrades” in English in the USA, announce that AWD will also prepare for the fight in Germany, show the loading of a pistol and flags with the hammer and sword logo of the right-wing extremist “anti-capitalist collective”. The images of actions by free comrades-in-arms are combined with historical images of parades by former National Socialists and images of war. In the end, a man with a skull mask and AWD flag poses in front of the Wewelsburg. The German recruitment video was also distributed by AWD-USA.

In July 2018, the federal government responded to a small inquiry from the Die Linke party : "At the beginning of June 2018, the German security authorities received evidence of the existence of a group called 'Atomwaffen Division' as part of the 'Coordinated Internet Evaluation Law' (KIA-R) in Germany. "The Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) saw no evidence of a terrorist organization :" The risk from extreme right-wing and right-wing terrorist acts of violence in the Federal Republic of Germany remains at an abstractly high level, even after the announcement of the existence of a German offshoot of the AWD Level. “The GETZ registered the German AWD, but had no information on their membership. The Federal Ministry of the Interior has been monitoring AWD since June 2018 for indications of activities against the free democratic basic order .

At least one German took part in an AWD hate camp in the Nevada desert. German AWD members wrote in an email in 2018 that their group was still very small and was "in the initial phase of the formation of the German nuclear weapons division". Her focus is on “violence and killing as well as propaganda that leads to such violence and killing.” They announced that they would start an advertising campaign in Germany.

In autumn 2018, a member of AWD-USA traveled to Germany to pursue an anti-fascist who had fled to Germany from AWD. The US authorities warned the German police of the man's intentions. In November 2018, the German police warned the threatened woman and asked her to hide her place of residence and to ensure her safety. You know the identity of the US citizen who has entered, his organization and contact persons, but you do not know where they are. Because the woman continued to receive attack and death threats, she made the case public in November 2019 and referred to the growth of AWD. The group is an international terrorist organization and must be treated as such by the authorities.

In November 2018, shortly before the anniversary of the November pogroms in 1938 , there were leaflets and letters in the Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Center of the Humboldt University in Berlin , showing men in camouflage clothing with skull masks and assault rifles, named an email address and the "German students" called out: "Do not abuse your spirit any longer in the service of the enemies of the people!" One should prepare for the civil war and follow the "Atomwaffen-Division". Above it was the AWD logo, a swastika and a serial number that referred to at least 40 other such pamphlets. The Register Berlin group , which has been recording right-wing extremist incidents in the city since 2008, first noticed similar leaflets in 2011 shortly after the terrorist group National Socialist Underground (NSU) was exposed. The authors are to be assessed as an authentic and dangerous right-wing terrorist group because of the language, quality, relation to reality and the planned distribution of their texts. The Berlin police and state security initiated an investigation on suspicion of "using symbols of unconstitutional organizations", but found no suspects.

In April 2019, leaflets signed with "Atomwaffendivision Deutschland" appeared in Frankfurt am Main , which carried calls for violence and unconstitutional symbols. In May, leaflets signed with "Atomwaffendivision" were in a library at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . They showed a masked man who attacked a person praying with an ax in front of a mosque , and called for the murder of Muslims, rabbis and imams . Another leaflet showed a man with a skull mask and assault rifle in front of the burning Brandenburg Gate and called for "total civil war". The accompanying text asserted the thesis widespread among neo-Nazis of an allegedly threatened annihilation of the “white race” through supposedly Jewish-controlled migration and mentioned the adoption of the UN migration pact in December 2018.

At the end of May 2019, AWD flyers were lying on Keupstrasse in Cologne in a hallway near the scene of the nail bomb attack on June 9, 2004, which is assigned to the NSU. Under the title “Message to the Muslims in Germany” they showed a hooded man who beheaded a praying Muslim with an ax. Muslims in Cologne received the flyers signed with "Atomwaffendivision Deutschland" as threatening letters. The authors turned to the "Muslims in Germany" and threatened them: "Targeted attacks on you will start soon." The Muslims are "the willing tool of the Jews to destroy Germany and Europe". Unknown distributed them between May 29 and June 3 in the Cologne-Mülheim district and put them in postage boxes in unfranked envelopes. The publicist Bahar Aslan drew attention to this on Twitter. The state security determined.

On October 27, 2019, a sender “atom11” wrote an email to the politician Cem Özdemir ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ): “You too, the left-wing Turkish pig, have now made it onto our death list […]. Right now you are the first on our list so consider yourself very lucky. We are the Nuclear Weapons Division Germany and we are continuing what began in America, because we are a globally networked right-wing extremist organization with contacts to militant groups throughout Europe and America. [...] It is our goal to become the largest right-wing extremist organization after the end of the Third Reich. "One plans to execute Özdemir at the next public rally or to intercept him in front of his apartment:" They become a Turkish pig for all their mistakes, as well as them their party. "18 minutes later, the same sender wrote to Bundestag Vice President Claudia Roth (The Greens):" You are currently number two on our hit list. "By the end of the week (November 9, 2019), you had written in the social media" to distance themselves clearly from the Greens ”. “The impending cleansing phase was initiated with Mr. Lübcke and Mr. Hollstein. Many more will follow. Among other things, you and Mr Özdemir. ”The senders put the threat in the series of the right-wing extremist knife attack on Andreas Hollstein (November 27, 2017), which he survived, and the right-wing extremist murder of Walter Lübcke (June 2, 2019). Both emails ended: "Sincerely, Atomwaffen-Division Deutschland".

The sender (s) have not yet been identified; It is unclear whether they are AWD members or imitators. The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution is placing these emails in a current wave of right-wing extremist threats against German politicians. Investigative journalists also see possible references to death threats against politicians from senders such as " NSU 2.0 " and others, which have increased significantly since 2018.

The BKA recorded its first assessment of an abstract danger situation even after the death threats against Roth and Özdemir in November 2019. Terrorism expert Peter Neumann ( King's College London ), on the other hand, found the threats "very concrete and specific". He estimated AWD in Germany to have 24 to 36 members nationwide with an extremely high propensity for violence.

After a tip from the FBI, the German police arrested the 31-year-old Kyle M. on November 7, 2019 and refused him entry after an interrogation. He is considered a leading member of the AWD-USA, has been to Germany several times according to the AWD videos, possibly played in National Socialist Black Metal (NSBM) bands and had close contacts with German right-wing extremist musicians, including the convicted murderer Hendrik Möbus . AWD member Kaleb Cole is also said to have attended NSBM concerts in Europe.

After joint research by ZDF and T-online.de in the leaked data from the Iron March , German neo-Nazis also communicated there, including an AWD supporter from Eisenach . He had declared there in 2017 that he would choose the Holocaust instead of freedom for the Jews; Germany is his religion, Hitler his prophet. He rejected the NPD as a party “full of subhumans” and the AfD as not being radical enough. He asked neo-Nazis from the USA to contact him if they wanted to take action in Germany. Indictments of sedition are easy to circumvent legally. On the page xplosives.net , which was closed in August 2019, he gave routine tips on the manufacture of explosives and the disposal of chemicals. He had already tried HMTD, processed his initial explosives "always directly into detonators" and obtained live ammunition from the rifle club and from relatives using gun ownership cards. In the Iron March forum he presented himself as a Hitler supporter who had taken care of German Facebook pages and blogs with “NS”, “Revolt” and “Street Art” in their names. These pages showed the production of graffiti such as “Nazi Kiez” and works by a right-wing sprayer group in Eisenach. The "Revolt" page criticizes conspiracy theories that question the terrorist intent of Halle Stephan Balliet's assassin. According to the chats, the Eisenacher produced propaganda videos for neo-Nazi groups such as the German “Anti-Capitalist Collective” (AKK). This has been cooperating with the British National Action (NA) since 2016 . Several NA members who had traveled to Plauen for a May Day rally recommended the Iron March to him. With this information he sought contact with leading members of AWD-USA. He received the name and an email of an AWD video manufacturer. The German AWD video from June 2018 contains identical scenes from the Plauen May demonstration as the AKK videos, so that the Eisenacher is considered the manufacturer. He signed his chats on the Iron March forum with a rare username that also appears on other right-wing extremist social media. There he welcomes terror, a National Socialist revolution, and looks for prescriptions for explosives. On the Fascist Forge page he described himself: He was in his early 20s, led a local neo-Nazi group and was initially active in the AKK. He does martial arts in a group, has participated in shooting training in the Czech Republic and in the neo-Nazi festival "Schild & Schwert" in Ostritz , Saxony . He was arrested there for illicit passive arming and later convicted. He described Eisenach as his home, whererechte had its own house for events and meetings. According to the Thuringian state parliament member Katharina König-Preuss , he may have participated in the NSBM festival "Asgardsrei" in Kiev . The band Absurd by Hendrik Möbus, who allegedly has contacts with a member of the AWD-USA, also played there. The Office for the Protection of the Constitution of Thuringia did not comment on possible contacts between Eisenach neo-Nazis and the AWD, but want to examine them.

The Eisenacher was registered as an "anti-democrat" in the Ironmarch forum and, according to Katharina König-Preuss, has been an active neo-Nazi for years. He trained with the neo-Nazi martial arts group "Knockout51", which is connected to the "Flieder Volkshaus" of the NPD office. He has participated in at least one right-wing shooting training course in the Czech Republic and has contacts with the far-right Azov militia in Ukraine. As a result, a highly dangerous neo-Nazi milieu had formed in Eisenach that could be ready to implement the death threats made by the AWD against political opponents.

A few hours after the T-online report, the “National Awakening Eisenach” group announced on Facebook that it was disbanding immediately and completely. The Eisenacher was a leading member of this neo-Nazi group. He denied on his Instagram profile that he worked for the German AWD branch. He found this “spastis” “always ridiculous”. He did not comment on his contacts with AWD representatives in the USA.

The BKA denied a house search in Eisenach and the seizure of data carriers, which Tagesschau.de reported on November 18, 2019. Nevertheless, German security authorities and the Federal Prosecutor General AWD and possible German contact persons have been watching more closely since the data leak.

Activities since March 2020

Alleged resolution

On March 15, 2020, the Internet medium Vice.com received a press release on tape. In it, long-time chief ideologist James Mason claimed that AWD had officially resolved to dissolve the group immediately on March 9, 2020 and commissioned him to make this public. The extent of the state infiltration and the many arrests had hindered the functioning of the group so badly that it was pointless to fake any remnants of organizational activities. Everything that can now be found on the Internet under the AWD label is to be viewed as a fraud. Mason quickly condemned a widespread propaganda video by a group calling itself AWD as a fraud in the fall of 2019. His audio tape was circulating online and is mostly considered genuine. Experts, on the other hand, doubt a complete cessation of all group activities. You see the announcement in response to heightened law enforcement by the FBI. This had arrested five AWD members in the USA, including John Cameron Denton, and six members of the group The Base in February 2020 .

German-English Telegram channel

Immediately after the alleged self-dissolution, the "Atomwaffendivision Deutschland" (AWDD) published a statement that it was still active. It circulated renewed calls for the murder of Jews and Muslims, whose anti-Semitic and racist motives are almost identical to previous AWDD leaflets. On March 18, 2020, AWDD created a Telegram channel and published there, among other things, a “German translation of the Atomwaffen Division Program” and two sound recordings in German and English. In the German version, a distorted voice said: “This is a message from the Germany Nuclear Weapons Division. We are very sad that our American comrades were forced to liquidate their cells. However, we have remained practically untouched here in Germany. We have managed to prepare several people for the coming battle and to free them from the greedy hands of the system. We want to continue with that. We in Germany will remain active - until the bitter end. Sieg Heil! ”The following day a twelve-page document with the title“ Atomwaffen Division Deutschland Programm ”appeared on the channel with ideological and strategic considerations,“ rules of conduct ”,“ recruiting requirements ”and National Socialist“ required reading ”, including Hitler's“ Mein Kampf ”or James Masons Book "Siege". AWDD is "not only in a dangerous fight against the Jews, but also against our own people." Once again, AWDD referred to the militant forms of organization "lone wolves", "small cells" and "leaderless resistance activities". The Holocaust was denied and demanded, National Socialism glorified. Two graphics repeated the killing scenarios known from earlier leaflets: A person in a skull mask takes an ax or a knife to behead a Muslim praying in front of a mosque. Image composition, visual language, fonts and textures are similar to the work of the Canadian graphic designer "Dark Foreigner", which appeared in 2017 on the English-language website atomwaffendivison.org.

From March to July 2020, 18 AWD graphics with German-language content were published on the Telegram channel. since their design and distribution differ greatly, they were presumably created by different people. At least three graphics translate exactly your English-language templates. Most of the motifs are currently only available with German text. Some of them have been translated into Russian and distributed by an "Atomwaffen Division Russia" (AWDR) on various social media platforms and by individuals.

Classifications

Right-wing extremism expert Roland Sieber emphasizes: AWD is a transnational network that promotes right-wing terrorism worldwide, wants to bring about the expected apocalyptic "race war" with violence and explicitly calls for the murder of political opponents, Jewish, Muslim, homosexual and black people. The open reference to National Socialism and Hitler, the racist ideology of "white superiority", the concept of leaderless resistance and accelerationism are characteristics of the AWD ideology. The reference to Mason's work "Siege" is a worldwide trend in the white supremacy movement. More and more groups wanted to accelerate the collapse of state order through terror and sexual violence against children and minors. Every right-wing extremist murderer and violent criminal, including Islamist terrorists, are a role model for them. Like the “Islamic State”, they spread their terrorist propaganda globally via the Internet and tried to recruit new followers for attacks worldwide. AWD hate camps are comparable to IS terror camps. In addition, AWD and FKD built on existing terrorist structures with their calls to join local Nazis. In Germany these are networks around " Combat 18 " and " Blood and Honor ", which organized firearms training in Eastern Europe.

Political scientist Jan Rathje (Amadeu Antonio Foundation) also warns against underestimating the danger posed by AWD, and believes that further mobilization for terrorist violence via existing networks such as “Combat18” or “Blood and Honor” is possible.

See also

literature

  • Barry J. Balleck (Ed.): Hate Groups and Extremist Organizations in America: An Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara 2019, ISBN 978-1-4408-5750-8 , pp. 49-53

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  1. ^ Issues in Terrorism and Homeland Security: Selections from CQ Researcher. 2nd edition, Sage Publications, 2010, ISBN 1-4129-9201-X , p. 82
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