Brigade 8
Brigade 8 is a neo-Nazi association in the style of a rocker club . This right-wing extremist form of organization is also known as "Brotherhood". The club comes from Schleswig-Holstein , but has several so-called chapters in unknown numbers.
history
"President" of the club, which is organized like a rocker club for all of Germany, is a right-wing extremist entrepreneur who also runs a merchandising business called Nordic War Clothing & Streetwear Company . Among the supporters of the clubs in the shipping trade is one central dispatch of Rene Herrman . The club's largest chapter was founded in Bremen. Further chapters are to exist in Thuringia, Saxony, Mecklenburg and North Rhine-Westphalia. The club uses symbols from the Outlaw Motorcycle Gang . The club's color is an iron cross with a skull in the middle and the words B8 Crew. The group uses frocks and typical names such as "President", but also NS names such as Gauleiter . On the Internet, especially on facebook and vk.com , members of Brigade 8 show symbols and gestures relevant to criminal law, such as swastikas and the Hitler salute .
The brotherhood is associated with the right-wing rock scene. Individual activists attended various events in this scene, and there are connections to the bands Bunker 16 , Endlöser and Punishment , among others . In addition, the right-wing rock band Legion Germania dedicated a song to the organization on their album Tag der Rache (2012, Freiheitsmelodien Tonträger). Brigade 8 shares its abbreviation 28 with the right-wing extremist organization Blood & Honor, which is banned in Germany .
In 2013, the Bremen and Schleswig-Holstein constitutional protection authorities warned of the group. In June 2013, an event by Brigade 8 in the Hanseatic city of Bremen was banned by Interior Senator Ulrich Mäurer ( SPD ). At the presentation of the Bremen Constitutional Protection Report 2012, he described the group as "anti-Semitic and in a blatant way inhuman".
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b David Janzen: Brotherhoods - Between Rocker Myth and "Blood & Honor" . In: The Right Edge . No. 144 (October / September), 2013, ISSN 1619-1404 , p. 16 .
- ^ Information from the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution on Brigade 8 Crew Bremen. (PDF; 332 kB) Senate Press Office Bremen, accessed on September 24, 2013 .
- ^ "Brigade 8" Nazi propaganda party foiled. District newspaper Syke , June 24, 2013, accessed on September 24, 2013 .
- ↑ The Office for the Protection of the Constitution warns of "Brigade 8". Norddeutscher Rundfunk , July 7, 2013, archived from the original on July 10, 2013 ; Retrieved September 24, 2013 .
- ↑ Interior Senator forbids right-wing extremist party. (No longer available online.) Radio Bremen , June 21, 2013, archived from the original on September 27, 2013 ; Retrieved September 24, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
