Nazi punk

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Nazipunk is a common term in the punk scene for people with neo-Nazi or racist views who stick to the style of punk. The majority of the punk movement is hostile to them because they see the self-image of the punks and National Socialist ways of thinking as contradicting one another. Nevertheless, some individuals and bands with right-wing extremist and at least right-wing attitudes existed and still exist.

The name itself may have appeared for the first time in a song by the Dead Kennedys called Nazi Punks Fuck Off (Eng. 'Nazipunks, piss off!'). Its text, however, explicitly mentioned punks with a weakness for Nazi symbolism in only one place. The rest of the text criticized violence on the dance floor and machismo, the protagonist of which compared Dead Kennedys singer Jello Biafra to jocks and Nazis, and the elitist paintwork of the hardcore punk scene with its dress codes and rules.

Historical background

In its early phase it was common in many punk bands to flirt with neo-Nazism, mostly openly ironic and satirical . There were lyrics such as Masterrace Rock ( The Dictators ), Blitzkrieg Bop ( Ramones ), Belsen Was a Gas ( Sex Pistols ), Nazi Baby ( The Vibrators ), (I Wanna Form My Own) Nazi Party ( The Models ). Other song lyrics were also seen as controversial, such as White Riot ( The Clash ), Puerto Rican ( Adam and the Ants ), I Feel Like a Wog ( The Stranglers ) or Love in a Void ( Siouxsie and the Banshees ) could be racist or anti-Semitic be understood. On the other hand, many groups also flirted externally with Nazi symbolism, not only bands like the Sex Pistols, Joy Division or Siouxsie and the Banshees, but also lesser-known groups like The Skids . Crispin Sartwell assumes that punk has adopted right-wing politics as the standard with its definition in contrast to the hippies . However, it is difficult not to see punk as a whole when examining the politics of the formative bands as an anarchist movement. The ambiguity attracted people who were actually racist and who no longer represented anything ironic or a reference to Pop Art for Nazi symbolism , but a serious commitment. A militant neo-Nazi group called the Punk Front was founded in the vicinity of the British National Front , which was recruited exclusively from punks and produced a number of Nazi punk bands (including The Dentists , The Ventz , Tragic Minds , White Boss ). From the neo-Nazi part of the punk scene, the groups Skrewdriver and Brutal Attack emerged, which later externally adapted the skinhead style, in which most of the former Nazipunks followed them and became and with a new sub -scene , the "Nazi skinheads" White Noise and Rock Against Communism formed a musical movement whose bands mostly played simple street punk , often with heavy metal and hard rock influences, and can be viewed as "Nazipunk".

What began in London in the late 1970s was repeated a few years later in the USA and Germany. In Nazi Punks Fuck Off, Jello Biafra criticized violence on the dance floors and compared the perpetrators to Nazis. Shortly afterwards, real neo-Nazis revealed themselves within the scene. In the American hardcore scene, cynical texts such as White Minority ( Black Flag ), Guilty of Being White ( Minor Threat ) or Public Assistance ( Agnostic Front ) were interpreted as racist and hardcore punk groups suddenly saw themselves as clearly racist and confronted right-wing fans. In addition, there were some groups that were not right-wing extremists themselves, but also attracted a neo-Nazi audience through patriotic and nationalist slogans. The Dead Milkmen criticized the group The FU's and their fans in one of their songs : "We hate blacks, and we hate jews, and we hate punks, but we love the FU's" (from the piece Tiny Town from the album Big Lizard in My Backyard ). The death rock and gothabilly group Radio Werewolf also flirted with neo-Nazism , which also attracted a corresponding audience. In the wake of British RAC bands, however, American Nazi punk and " NS-Hardcore " groups such as FFF, White Pride , Max Resist and the Hooligans , Mid Town Bootboys and The Bully Boys formed , who, like their British role models, soon became largely as Skinheads appeared and in the vicinity of which the neo-Nazi organization Hammerskins emerged. In the course of time, numerous punk street gangs also took on the appearance of skinheads, some of whom also took up right-wing extremist views and Nazi habitus (initially mainly the aforementioned FFF, but later mainly "Public Enemy No1" and the "Nazi Lowriders") and sometimes under influence older right-wing organizations like the American Front or prison gangs like the Aryan Brotherhood got caught.

In Germany, some punk bands took over the "Nazi chic" of the Sex Pistols, so u. a. Punkenstein or Smash. The music industry also played a role here. For example, the record label Teldec gave the group Big Balls and the Great White Idiot a scandalous Nazi image, which was rejected by the band. Others came under criticism for controversial texts and a. Dachau Disco ( Cretins ), Militürk ( lunch break ), Ewiger Hass ( Junge Front ), Party in the gas chamber ( Middle Class Fantasies ), Dachau ( A + P ), Turkish blues ( rabies ), also band names ( SS Ultrabrutal ) and artwork as well as clothing style caused confusion, especially with OHL or German American friendship . Some band members like parts of Circle of Sig-Tiu (with Josef Maria Klumb ), Böhse Onkelz , Cotzbrocken or Daily Terror actually developed, at least temporarily, into the politically right-wing and even right-wing extremist corner.

In the wake of controversial bands and images, the first Nazi punks soon appeared in Germany, so u. a. the Hamburg group Savage Army (SA). But as in the USA and Great Britain, most of the former Nazi punk soon adopted a skinhead appearance, with the majority of the first generation of skinheads in Germany being recruited from former punks.

Also later there were bands and individuals who call themselves or were called Nazipunks, and others. a. with the second and third generation of the Hatecore scene or the autonomous nationalists . In some cases, the demarcation of ideological neo-Nazis from groups of people who only express reactionary or patriotic views and who cross the line to nationalism , chauvinism , sexism and homophobia is fluid. In this sense, the term "Nazipunk" is also used as a pure swear word within the punk movement .

Nazipunk bands

Examples of music groups known as Nazipunk bands are:

Others

Nazi punk in pop culture

The Nazi punk subculture found its way into some films, notably the “ Punxploitation ” category, including Nazi punk in The 1984 Class , Punk! or Surf Nazis Must Die on.

Controversy over bands

There are also some controversial bands in the punk scene who are said to have a not openly neo-Nazi attitude.

  • The Exploited was and is often criticized because of their front man and songwriter Wattie Buchan, as they sometimes have sexist and homophobic lyrics ( Fuck a Mod , Porno Slut ) and the 12 ”EP War Now has anti-Semitic abuse in the credits. Jello Biafra from the Dead Kennedys accuses the band of always having a conservative stance. He also blames Wattie Buchan for an attack on a Dead Kennedys and MDC concert in 1981, in which both members of the British Movement and the Exploited Roadcrew were involved. The band distances itself from neo-Nazi allegations.
  • The German band SS-Kaliert was also accused of being Fascist because of the controversial lyrics . In addition, the guitarist of the band, who is not clearly positioned on the left, stood out with a t-shirt from the band The Jinx . Because of these allegations, the band took a clear stand in their song Eye for an Eye and in interviews. Faschistenpack has not been played live by the band for over four years.
  • There were further allegations against Willi Wucher from the band Pöbel & Gesocks that he had private contacts with neo-Nazi circles. Wucher played in the 1980s with the Oi! Band Body Checks , which called for violence against punks in one of their pieces, reformed itself in the 90s with the participation of only one original member (not Wuchers) and a reunion with Torsten Lemmer's record company Funny Sounds -Album recorded. In his old fanzine Scumfuck he once reported on attending a Skrewdriver concert, which earned him criticism from readers and other fanzines. He also had a brief business relationship with the record company Dim Records . In several articles on the homepage of Indymedia , he finally tried to get rid of the allegations.
  • The former APPD politician Karl Nagel was also suspected of being neo-Nazi for a long time, as he was accused of having urged right-wing extremists and leftists to cooperate with the APPD, and he had a link to the cross front on his homepage. He had attended at least one cross-front meeting of the national anarchists. Later he met Christian Worch .
  • The band OHL , which, among other things, speaks out clearly against links in its lyrics and on the covers of several releases , is also affected by such allegations. She is also accused of glorifying soldiers because of her band name and album names and album covers, which almost exclusively show soldiers. Since OHL also speak out against right-wing radicalism at the same time , they are often referred to as “ CDU punks”. Politically, the group locates itself in radical liberalism .
  • The band V-Punk was accused of being close to right-wing extremism in a blog because their singer Zeljko Topić, who has since died, was in contact with the right-wing extremist scene.

Literature:

* Hate, Drugs & Punk Rock, Dennis Bauers

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b August Brown: Jello Biafra on 'Nazi Punks' and hate speech. Los Angeles Times , August 9, 2012, accessed September 6, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Punk & the Swastika Songs & Lyrics
  3. ↑ Crispin Sartwell: Political Aesthetics . Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY / London 2010, pp. 112 ( google.com [accessed September 6, 2014]).
  4. ↑ Crispin Sartwell: Political Aesthetics . Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY / London 2010, pp. 114 ( google.com [accessed September 6, 2014]).
  5. ↑ Simon Reynolds: Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984 . Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006. p. 65.
  6. ^ A b Steven Blush, George Petros: American Hardcore: A Tribal History . Feral House 2001, pp. 32-35.
  7. ↑ EVIL WILHELM (MALOUF) ( Memento of the original from April 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / zinnober.net
  8. ↑ Interviews - BIG BALLS & THE GREAT WHITE IDIOT
  9. ↑ Battle cries BRD Tour 2002
  10. ↑ Karl Nagel goes punk - THE AMAZING CAREER OF A TERM THAT HAS CHANGED LANGUAGE AND POLITICAL CULTURE ( Memento from December 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ Greece welcomes newest MP: A 'Nazi punk' musician. Ynetnews , July 26, 2012, accessed February 6, 2015 .
  12. ↑ JELLO BIAFRA & THE MELVINS - It's a holiday in Iraq
  13. ↑ NARDWUAR vs. Jello Biafra
  14. ↑ Exploited article on the Conne Island homepage
  15. ↑ Reactions to a French fan page
  16. ↑ The Right Edge of Punk (T. 2)
  17. ↑ www.querfront.de switched off!
  18. ↑ “From punk to neo-Nazi? Karl Nagel last battle ” by Ernst Corinth on April 13, 2001 on Telepolis
  19. ↑ “The« Supreme Army Command »is absolutely non-partisan! Political currents u. Directions in their extreme forms run counter to the self-image of the group members. Therefore it seemed necessary, after the accusations against the National Socialist [sic!] Past a. the neo-Nazis of the present (see 1. lp [sic!] "Home Front" + 2.LP. "1000 Kreuze") now also take a stand against the extreme left. Right and left want the masses to be manipulable !! Defend yourself in time !!!!!!! ”OHL: October Revolution , Rock-O-Rama 1983.
  20. ↑ "Political currents u. Directions in their extreme forms run counter to the self-image [sic!] Of the group members. Right and left want the masses to be manipulable! Defend yourself in time! "OHL: Scorched Earth , Rock-O-Rama 1983.
  21. ↑ “OHL fights all forms of political extremism and religious fanaticism. Right, left and religious systems that rise to the form of a state have only the oppression and manipulation of the people as their goal and thus the destruction of freedom. OHL also opposes that blind and deaf mass of ignoramuses who cannot or do not want to see reality. ” The Supreme Army Command ( Memento from May 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive ).
  22. ↑ Jennes: Scumfuck Interview ( June 15, 2009 memento in the Internet Archive ).
  23. ↑ V-Punk have played out ( Memento from June 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  24. ^ V-punk and no end dk May 6, 2002