Combat League of German Soldiers

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The Combat League of German Soldiers (KDS) was a neo-Nazi group founded by Erwin Schönborn , which mainly pursued the denial of Nazi crimes.

The KDS emerged in 1975 from the Frankfurt Circle of German Soldiers , also initiated by Schönborn , in order to consolidate its structures. The federal government maintained connections to the military sports group Hoffmann , the farming community of Thies Christophersen and the German citizens' initiative of Manfred Roeder . The declared goals of the KDS included a. the "enforcement of the German Volkstum ", the "punishment of all resistance fighters as traitors " and the release of Rudolf Hess .

In leaflets, the KDS offered a reward of 10,000 DM for “every perfectly proven 'gassing' in a 'gas chamber' of a German concentration camp”. In Frankfurt am Main and Nuremberg , KDS members distributed leaflets to schools named after Anne Frank , in which Anne Frank's diary was described as a forgery and "product of Jewish anti-German atrocity propaganda", the "lie about the six million gassed Jews" should support.

After Operation Entebbe , in which Israeli special forces violently ended the hijacking of a French plane, the KDS declared the Ugandan security forces killed in the process "as victims of Zionist crimes" ". In 1977 the KDS founded a" citizens' initiative for the death penalty and against immorality and pornography. " “, Which campaigned for the reintroduction of the death penalty in the Federal Republic of Germany .

documentation

  • Karl-Heinz Walloch: Two days in May (1978). Documentary about the activities of the NPD in Hamburg and their cooperation with the groups ”Kampfbund Deutscher Soldiers” and ”Aktion Nationale Sozialisten”

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Vulnerable Youth . Die Zeit, April 21, 1978
  2. ↑ Fabian Virchow: Against Civilism: International Relations and the Military in the Political Conceptions of the Extreme Right . Springer, 2006, p. 290.
  3. ^ Jürgen Strohmaier: Manfred Roeder: an arsonist . Gaisreiter, 1982, p. 22f
  4. ^ Wolfgang Benz: Handbook of Antisemitism: Anti-Semitism in Past and Present. Organizations, institutions, movements. Volume 5, de Gruyter 2012, pp. 129ff.
  5. ↑ Michael Rindchen: The phenomenon of Holocaust denial in the seventies and in the first half of the eighties and the reaction of the judiciary, the public, and legislators . University of Kaiserslautern, script, 1999, p. 18f.
  6. ↑ Heritage lives . Der Spiegel, 36/1977, August 29, 1977.
  7. ^ Yvonne Hötzel: Debates about the death penalty in the Federal Republic of Germany from 1949 to 1990 . De Gruyter, 2011, p. 280.