European White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan

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European White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (EWK KKK) was a racist organization with headquarters in Schwäbisch Hall . They are often confused with the European White Knights of the Burning Cross . In fact, the EWK KKK was an older and already dissolved organization. It existed between 2000 and 2003 and was based on the Ku Klux Klan in the United States.

history

The EWK KKK were founded on October 1st, 2000 and probably dissolved towards the end of 2002. At that time the group European White Knights of the Burning Cross (EWKotBC) did not yet exist. Also on the website of the EWKotBC any connection is denied and legal remedies are threatened if someone creates a connection. During its existence, the clan offshoot had around 20 members in the federal states of Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Hesse, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, North Rhine-Westphalia, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia.

The Klan offshoot only became known during the educational work on the right-wing terrorist NSU complex . Two police officers from Baden-Württemberg were members of the European White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in 2002. When the head of the group in Schwäbisch Hall was searched in 2003 , investigators found the names of the two officers. According to the ministry, both had left the group at this point. At the time, the two officers were working for the Böblingen riot police, which also included Michèle Kiesewetter , who was allegedly shot by the NSU terrorist group in 2007, something the investigating authorities did not know until they were exposed at the end of 2011. The NSU confidante Thomas Richter , who was under the code name "Corelli" long time undercover agent of the constitution protection, had connections to this group; evidence of an application for membership and meetings with members of the clan, it is assumed that Richter was a co-founder and member of the group.

In the course of the investigation, it was also revealed that the founder of the clan was probably Achim Schmid , an undercover agent of the Baden-Württemberg Office for the Protection of the Constitution . There were also connections to the right-wing extremist music scene. The founder was also a member of the music groups Wolf Pack , Hellhunde and Celtic Moon . He is also said to have appeared as a "songwriter Achim". One of the members also played in the right-wing rock band Legion Ost . Other members are also said to have been V men.

On December 3, 2019, the Jewish cemetery in Westhoffen was desecrated. Numerous gravestones were smeared with swastikas. The graffiti shows that the acts, together with the desecration of Jewish cemeteries in Quatzenheim, Reutenbourg , Rohr and Schaffhouse-près-Seltz, are related to the European White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. The black "14", which is emblazoned on a grave stone at the cemetery entrance, is the "Fourteen Words", a dogma of white neo-Nazis and racists: "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children" ( We need the existence of our people and a future for the white children ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ The police officers involved were aware of the racial hatred of the Ku Klux Klan in Schwäbisch Hall. Swabian daily sheet date = 2013-08-10, accessed on August 10, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Federal Government : Response of the Federal Government to the minor question from MPs Ulla Jelpke, Heidrun Dittrich, Jens Petermann, other MPs and the DIE LINKE parliamentary group (PDF). German Bundestag, printed matter 17/10688, September 13, 2013, p. 2.
  3. ^ Andreas Förster: Ku Klux Klan: German police officers at the Ku Klux Klan. In: Frankfurter Rundschau , August 1, 2012.
  4. ↑ Sven Ullenbruch, Lucius Teidelbaum: Burning crosses in the country. In: NSU-Watch.de , December 8, 2016.
  5. ↑ Mark Ragusch: Ku Klux Klan: cuttings in Germany. In: Antifascist Info Sheet , Volume 2, 2013, No. 99.
  6. ↑ Déjà-vu in Alsace , Jüdische Allgemeine, December 15, 2019 Retrieved December 26, 2019