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Strafmass is a right-wing rock band founded in Bremen in 2008 , which is affiliated with the neo-Nazi network Blood & Honor , which is banned in Germany .

Band history

The band was founded in 2008 by the neo-Nazi Denis Zadow from Bremen. Zadow grew up in the northern Bremen district of Blumenthal , was active in the youth group of the Bremen NPD from 2005 and was also involved in the right-wing rock scene. He appeared as a singer and front man of the band. Meanwhile, Zadow moved to Herne in North Rhine-Westphalia , where he participated in the right-wing rock band Schuldig .

The line- up of the band has changed several times in the meantime. The State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Bremen sees this in connection with the peculiarities of the right-wing extremist music scene in Bremen, which is known beyond Germany and to which the band Strafmass - in addition to the other active Bremen skinhead bands Endlöser , Endstufe and Hetzjagd - is assigned. The line-ups of these bands often changed, including among each other, and, according to the constitution protection authority, gave the impression that a large group of people were behind them - in fact, the right-wing extremist music scene in Bremen has consisted of around 10 to 15 people since the beginning of the 2010s.

The band receives support during their performances from the so-called "Strafmass-Crew", whose members appear with T-shirts on which, next to the words "Strafmass ... more than just music", a German ( Wehrmacht ) soldier with a pistol drawn and the abbreviation "C18" are shown. "C18" is the abbreviation for Combat 18 , the armed arm of the neo-Nazi network Blood & Honor.

The debut of the band Strafmass, the CD Wir Rechnen ab… , published in 2009 , was indexed shortly after publication by the Federal Testing Office for Media Harmful to Young People (BPjM). In 2010 the band released their second CD under the title Wir get dich alle… . Since then, more CDs have followed, and the band has also participated in various right-wing rock samplers .

Since 2009 the band has performed at several (right-wing extremist) concerts in Germany and other European countries.

Style and content

According to the Hamburg journalist, author and right-wing extremism expert Andreas Speit, the band Strafmass maintains a “very 'classic” right-rock music style that is based on the other right-wing extremist bands in Bremen, some of which have existed for much longer. New trends do not exactly set punitive measures, so Speit further, the "songs and the image move very much in the neo-Nazi head milieu". For example, the band's CD covers from 2010 and 2011 depict Wehrmacht soldiers.

According to Andreas Speit, classic right-wing rock had its origins in the neo-Nazi head milieu and the music was "almost always oi- oriented, with fast, hard chords" and "slogan-like shouting" songs that were "clearly racist and neo-Nazi." In terms of content, the lyrics also revolved around “their own scene life - 'drinking and partying'”, although other musical styles have since been added and the songs also “tell stories”, in which “current social issues [...] ] would be picked up ”. In terms of style, according to Speit, “everything from ska to hip-hop ” can be found, with punk rock being the standard.

In the form of the ballad Grandpa, for example, the band glorifies grandfather 's struggle as a pioneer in Russia during World War II and mourns his death with the words "Fly with the wind to Valhalla , into the realm of heroes and great warriors". The song is included in the Strafmass album Erhebe Deine Faust , the cover of which shows German child soldiers from this war in front of a black-white-red flag . In the same album, the band deals with Labor Day , May 1st, in a song of the same name and says: “Come on, come on comrades, come and line up, you can hear national resistance screaming from all throats!”, While the racist orientation of the group in the song Raise your fist becomes clear: "Immigration stop in every place, [...] Germany finally wake up, Germany raise your fist, Germany finally strike back."

Right-wing extremism

The Bremen State Office for the Protection of the Constitution has been observing the right-wing extremist band Strafmass since it was founded and describes it as a right-wing extremist skinhead band. According to the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the band sees itself in the "tradition of the banned British neo-Nazi group 'Combat 18', which is a role model for many neo-Nazis, mainly because of its militant orientation". The band Strafmass often moves in the vicinity of the other Bremen right-wing rock bands such as Category C , Endlöser, Endstufe and Hetzjagd.

According to the Bremen Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the songs of punishment clarify their “hateful attitude towards foreigners, politically dissenters and the democratic constitutional state”. a. refers to the band's debut CD, released in 2009 and immediately indexed by the BPjM:

"We transgress their laws / we don't give a shit,
I don't know how often I hurt her / […] In the fight for ours
Nation is our every means right. [...] We act from the
Underground, the extreme direction is law. [...] Militants
Procedure, yes that is our way / we fight against the system
and against treason. "

Punishment was listed in the German Internet forum of “Blood & Honor”, ​​in which concerts by the band were also announced, along with ten other German right-wing rock groups as a “Blood & Honor” band. The band introduces itself on their website on Myspace with the slogan “Punishment - 88% Rock'n'Roll”. The number 88 is used by neo-Nazis as a disguised Hitler salute , it stands for HH as two eighth letters of the alphabet and is an abbreviation of Heil Hitler ( see also right-wing extremist symbols and signs ).

In 2009, punishment was announced for a “Blood & Honor” concert in the Netherlands and also performed with front man Denis Zadow at “Blood & Honor” concerts in Saxony and in the Dortmund area . When a right-wing extremist concert took place in Bremen in 2010 for the first time in many years, Strafmass was one of the bands involved. In the same year, Zadow organized a right-wing rock concert in Bremerhaven , where he also appeared with the band Strafmass and in which around 120 neo-Nazis from the Blood & Honor and its militant sub-organization Combat 18 took part. The CD sampler released in 2011 with the title Eine Jugend musiziert , in which punishment was involved, was indexed by the BPjM in 2012 because “the songs called for violence and racial hatred and glorified National Socialism”.

A "friendship party" planned for 2012 by the bands Strafmass and Endlöser, which was supposed to take place in Bremen, was banned by the Bremen City Office . In 2013 punishment occurred at the neo-Nazi event Fest der Nationalen in Berga in Saxony-Anhalt , in which around 800 neo-Nazis, mainly from Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia, took part. As a speaker u. a. the NPD politician Udo Pastörs on; the right-wing extremist songwriter Frank Rennicke and the right-wing rock bands Oidoxie , Kraftschlag , Kinderzimmerterroristen (KZT) and Painful Awekening were responsible for the musical program .

In 2014, the band Strafmass was invited to the mini-festival Rock für Deutschland , which the NPD Thuringia has been organizing regularly in Gera since 2003 , but canceled their participation at short notice. This was heavily criticized by the NPD functionaries.

In the annual reports for the protection of the Constitution of the federal state of Bremen, the band Strafmass has been mentioned continuously since it was founded, so far in the annual reports 2009 (2010 edition) to 2014 (2015 edition). The band and their members are assigned to the group of people “other violent right-wing extremists”. The Federal Testing Office for Media Harmful to Young People (BPjM) indexed four CDs up to 2012 in which punishment was involved.

Discography

Albums

  • 2010: strafmass - We'll get you all ... (CD, Odinseye)
  • 2011: strafmass - Raise Your Fist (CD, Front Records)
  • 2012: strafmass - Who plays with fire (CD, Germania Versand)
  • 2014: strafmass - The day he comes (CD, Germania Versand)

Sampler contributions

  • 2012: One for all, all for one (Sampler; CD, Germania Versand)
  • 2013: Flood - Solidarity Sampler (with Jungvolk, Rufmord, Act of Violence, Weisse Wölfe , Die Faschistische 4 and others) (CD, joint publication by Heimdall Versand and One People One Struggle Records)
  • 2013: Berseker 3 (with Sleipnir , Sturmrebellen, RKR, Integrationshelfer, Nordic Wrath and others) (Sampler; CD, Heimdall Versand)
  • 2015: The new attack begins (with Sleipnir, Hateful, Sturmrebellen, Söhne Germaniens, Mini, etc.) (Sampler; CD, Germania Versand)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f g State Office for the Protection of the Constitution Bremen : Constitutional Protection Report 2009 . Ed .: Senator for the Interior and Sport . June 18, 2010, p. 28 ( online [PDF; 3.3 MB ] Constitutional Protection Report 2009 of the State of Bremen ). online ( Memento of the original from January 1, 2016 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 / www.inneres.bremen.de
  2. a b c d e Christina Denker: Right skirt from Blumenthal . Neo-Nazi scene: The protection of the constitution sees right-wing music as a problem in Bremen-Nord . In: The North German . May 7, 2013, p. 3 ( online - (Note: The year the band was founded (= "2009"), as stated in the newspaper article, differs from the information in the 2009 report on the protection of the constitution (= "2008").) ).
  3. a b c d Ulla Scharfenberg: Of wolves and people. (No longer available online.) In: mut-gegen-rechte-gewalt.de. Web portal of the Stern initiative Courage against right-wing violence , January 5, 2012, archived from the original on January 7, 2016 ; accessed on January 7, 2016 (report). 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 / www.mut-gegen-rechte-gewalt.de
  4. Info: Denis Zadow. In: Website antifa-bremen.org, section “What was going on? (2015) ". antifa-bremen.org, c / o Infoladen Bremen, October 2015, accessed on December 2, 2015 .
  5. a b c State Office for the Protection of the Constitution Bremen: Verfassungsschutz Report 2013 . Ed .: Senator for the Interior and Sport. June 17, 2014, p. 35 ( online [PDF; 2.3 MB ] Constitutional Protection Report 2013 of the State of Bremen).
  6. a b State Office for the Protection of the Constitution Bremen: Report on the Protection of the Constitution 2014 . Ed .: Senator for the Interior and Sport. April 14, 2015, p. 32–33 ( online [PDF; 2.4 MB ] Constitutional Protection Report 2014 of the State of Bremen).
  7. a b c Otto Belina: "Music is our weapon" . In: The Right Edge - Magazine by and for anti-fascists . September 2012, ISSN  1619-1404 , p. 14 ( online [PDF; 3.9 MB ]).
  8. a b c d State Office for the Protection of the Constitution Bremen: Constitutional Protection Report 2010 . Ed .: Senator for the Interior and Sport. April 15, 2011, p. 30–31 ( online [PDF; 3.3 MB ] Constitutional Protection Report 2010 of the State of Bremen). online ( Memento of the original from January 8, 2016 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 / www.inneres.bremen.de
  9. a b Radek Krolzczyk: Bremen's right rhythms . In: Kulturzentrum Schlachthof (ed.): Zett - The magazine for urban culture . Bremen April 2012, p. 7 ( online [PDF; 758 kB ] Interview with Andreas Speit ).
  10. Mario Assmann: blows, kicks, throwing stones . Neo-Nazis in Bremen: The hard core is extremely violent . In: Verden news . April 21, 2013, p. 14 .
  11. ^ Andreas Speit : Undisturbed Nazi celebrations . Bremen: Right can party . In: taz.die tageszeitung , northern edition . June 13, 2011 ( online ).
  12. See the website of the band Strafmass on Myspace (accessed on January 9, 2016).
  13. a b c State Office for the Protection of the Constitution Bremen: Report on the Protection of the Constitution 2012 . Ed .: Senator for the Interior and Sport. June 21, 2013, p. 34–35 ( online [PDF; 2.3 MB ] Constitutional Protection Report 2012 of the State of Bremen). online ( Memento of the original from January 8, 2016 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 / www.inneres.bremen.de
  14. ^ Hooligans and Nazi bands: The annual review from Bremen. In: fussball-gegen-nazis.de. Internet portal Football Against Nazis of the Amadeu Antonio Foundation , May 5th 2012, accessed on 7 January 2016 .
  15. Pascal Anbich (editor): successful legal rock model. The right-wing extremism office takes stock of Saxony-Anhalt >>  Rechtsrockland Saxony-Anhalt. (PDF, 1.47 MB) In: Impulses for a living democracy - On the current occasion. Together - network for democracy and cosmopolitanism in Saxony-Anhalt e. V., June 26, 2014, accessed January 7, 2016 .
  16. On Saturday, “Rock für Deutschland” spreads hatred in Gera again. In: netz-gegen-nazis.de. Internet portal Netz gegen Nazis of the Amadeu Antonio Foundation, July 3, 2014, accessed on January 7, 2016 .
  17. Felix M. Steiner: Right rock disaster in Gera. In: Publikative.org . Amadeu Antonio Foundation blog , July 9, 2014, accessed December 3, 2015 .
  18. a b State Office for the Protection of the Constitution Bremen: Report on the Protection of the Constitution 2011 . Ed .: Senator for the Interior and Sport. August 29, 2012, p. 31–32 ( online [PDF; 3.1 MB ] Constitutional Protection Report 2011 of the State of Bremen). online ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 / www.inneres.bremen.de