Youth Resistance (Berlin Group)

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Lettering on a house wall in Kreuzberg 36 , with spelling mistakes and subsequent corruption, photographed on November 10, 2015, MLM stands for Marxist-Leninist-Maoist

The youth resistance was an anti-Semitic , Maoist , Stalinist , militant group from Berlin that existed from 2015 to 2019 and, according to the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, left-wing extremists . In graffiti the group was also abbreviated as JW . The group is said to have been particularly active in Berlin-Neukölln . Other left groups distanced themselves from the association.

The group was best known for their willingness to use violence , for their aggressive anti-Zionism and hatred of anti-German people . The members of the group are said to have perpetrated violence against left-wing groups. People outside the left-wing extremist scene who speak out in favor of Israel's right to exist are also said to have been attacked. Jews were threatened with murder. The group also took part in the annual al-Quds day in Berlin.

According to the Berlin Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the youth resistance is said to have emerged from the environment of the Revolutionary Action Cells (RAZ) and was organized in a strictly dogmatic and cadre-like manner. The RAZ was investigated in 2013 for the formation of a criminal organization based on several bomb attacks. Spokesman in Berlin is said to have been a rapper with the pseudonym "Taktikka". In addition, what he calls himself, TJ Detweiler enjoyed a leading role in the group. The youth resistance is said to have been associated with the Maoist group Socialist Left (SoL) from Hamburg. However, a feud developed from it, as the Berliners should have felt controlled by the SoL. The feud was fought with long publications about internals on the Internet as well as physical confrontations.

The group sought a civil war in Germany to overcome the system. The positive reference of the group to terms such as “people”, “fatherland”, “homeland” and “fame and honor” or the insulting of opponents as enemies of the people were atypical for a group operating as left. A member of the group was also formerly in the NPD .

The Berlin Office for the Protection of the Constitution observed the group and mentioned it in Chapter 6.4 of the Berlin Office for the Protection of the Constitution 2017. Left - wing extremist anti-Semitism (pp. 191–196). Left as well as Greens demanded a repressive treatment of the small group, since a dialogue with it is not possible.

Within the democratically oriented left in Berlin, the group was seen as isolated.

On June 9, 2019, the group announced its dissolution. On the morning of June 26, 2019, the police and the public prosecutor's office searched nine apartments of seven members of the group in Berlin and North Rhine-Westphalia, and among other things, weapons, data storage devices, mobile phones and masking items were seized . The announced resolution is rated by those familiar with the scene as a tactic to make investigations more difficult.

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  4. ↑ Julius Betschka: Israel haters demonstrate on May 1st in Neukölln. April 27, 2018, accessed on December 13, 2018 (German).
  5. ↑ Sebastian Weiermann: Mood making with the splinter group (new Germany). Retrieved December 13, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Frederik Schindler: Al-Quds-Day in Berlin: Protest against Israel enemies. In: www.taz.de. June 2, 2019, accessed June 2, 2019 .
  7. ↑ a b Erik Peter: Attacks on dissidents in Berlin: “What are you doing here? You Zionist ” . In: The daily newspaper: taz . May 17, 2018, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed December 13, 2018]).
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  9. ↑ Report 2017. (pdf) Verfassungsschutz Berlin, p. 194ff , accessed on December 23, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Left scene wants nothing to do with the political sect "Youth Resistance". Retrieved December 13, 2018 .
  11. ↑ "Youth Resistance": The end of youth resistance. In: Blog of the "Youth Resistance". June 9, 2019, accessed June 10, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Stefan Laurin: End, off, over: The Maoist thugs gang youth resistance has announced its dissolution. In: Ruhrbarone . June 9, 2019, accessed June 10, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Alexander Fröhlich: Mao's thugs from Neukölln dissolve. In: Tagesspiegel . June 10, 2019, accessed June 10, 2019 .
  14. ^ Group from Neukölln: Police are searching apartments in left-wing extremist "youth resistance". June 26, 2019, accessed on June 27, 2019 (German).
  15. ↑ Raid on seven "youth resistance" members. Retrieved June 27, 2019 .