Independent news

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Independent News (UN) is a right-wing extremist monthly magazine with the subtitle "Truth - Clarity - Openness", which has been published since 1969 and is distributed nationwide. The publisher of the twelve-page booklet is the “Freundeskreis Independent Nachrichten eV” in Oberhausen . Annette Kruse is responsible in terms of the press law, the monthly circulation is estimated at 10,000 copies. The magazine is or was printed and distributed by the company Verlag + Agentur Werner Symanek (VAWS) in Bingen.

history

The "Independent News" was founded in 1969.

In 2000 the UN caused a stir when it wrote to all school newspaper editorial offices in Germany. In attempting to contact the UN, it sent its propaganda material freely and free of charge and offered to cooperate. In January 2001, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution of North Rhine-Westphalia warned against attempts to advertise right-wing extremist publications in schools. In 2002 school newspapers were addressed again and a prize was awarded for the creation of essays on the subject of "Israel and international law".

Content profile

Assessment of the protection of the constitution NRW

According to an assessment by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution of North Rhine-Westphalia in 2007, “the UN [...] focused on articles that deny Germany's war guilt, contain the denigration of the free democratic basic order and denounce the supposedly ongoing 're-education' of the Germans by the victorious allied powers . Individual published articles come from the pen of well-known or formerly active neo-Nazis ”. Other standard topics are the relativization of German war crimes as well as the “multicultural society” or “ foreign infiltration ”.

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In the last few years there has been a generation change within the editorial team and the circle of authors, and younger activists from the NPD and the militant neo-Nazi scene have taken over the helm without changing the content significantly.

The journalistic design of numerous articles in the UN always follows the same pattern: Current and historical statements or articles or interviews from the daily press and from archives or other media are reproduced neutrally for an impartial reader, but the overall presentation then changes into what is actually intended incorporate political statement. Through the associative connection of the fundamental abstract components of right-wing extremist fear theories of cultural imperialism , plutocracy , Zionism and aggressive globalism as the supposed starting point for global political problem areas, the UN suggests a direct threat potential, which through permanent references to allegedly unjustified payments by Germany to foreign persons and organizations for an alleged causal one Connection with the current economic and political situation is expanded and thus takes concrete forms for the individual.

Young target group

The strong focus on a young audience and the school in particular is also reflected in the frequently updated website. This was set up around 1999, the treasurer Georg Linke is responsible for it. The website is linked by numerous other right-wing extremist websites, but the right-wing conservative study center Weikersheim also placed a link on the UN website for a while.

Issues of the series “On the timetable - replacement sheets for missing or falsified school books” appear on the website at irregular intervals, a commentary on historical and current political events that has been offered in print form since 1983, specifically aimed at pupils and teachers. The imprint of the website refers to a "timetable editor" of the UN. Registration is the domain to Mario Klostermann, "base manager" of the NPD -Kreisverbandes food .

Right-wing extremist interpretations are to be conveyed through the selection of topics and the predefined tendentious question within a final request and instructions for the preparation and implementation of project hours in the classroom, and existing undesirable curricula with corresponding learning successes are blocked in advance. It is cleverly suggested that scientifically proven findings are being published. Text passages from recognized educational works, such as “Geschichtliche Weltkunde” from the Diesterweg publishing house, are contrasted with statements from relevant “revisionist” publications. Then the assertion is made that the image of history conveyed in the classroom is based on forgeries that aim to "undermine the German sense of self".

Topics of the 'substitute sheets', in which the whole spectrum of historical revisionist , by völkisch -nationalist ideology is offered of the right-wing extremist scene and which are often attached to the regular UN editions as offprints, were for example:

  • “Germany wanted peace. The 16 points of the German Reich government from August 31, 1939 "
  • "Re-education - About the methodology of re-education of individuals and peoples"
  • " Israel and International Law: Exemplary UN Resolutions on the Middle East Conflict"

and more recently:

  • "What you should know for politics lessons: Secret truths about the US deployment in the Gulf"
  • "The Iraq war and international law: war of aggression is a crime against world peace"

Youth culture and extended affiliation

The UN is also trying to gain a foothold elsewhere. In October 2003, a sports club in Upper Lusatia received a letter from the UN, which was addressed to “board members and members of German football clubs” and in which the magazine and its further distribution were advertised. The letter denounced the " immigration policy and the transfer of our national right to self-determination to the EU ". Among other things, it is complained that the Germans are already a minority in the Bundesliga teams and can therefore no longer be referred to as a “German championship”. The football clubs were therefore called upon to “take care of politics a little more, with all the love for football or precisely because of it!” For this purpose, the UN provides “the necessary background knowledge that the mass media often use because of ' political correctness ' is kept secret ".

Web links

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  1. ↑ Protection of the Constitution of Baden-Württemberg
  2. ↑ Protection of the Constitution NRW
  3. ↑ APABIZ Profile: Independent News (UN)
  4. ↑ Ministry of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia ( Memento of the original from January 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.im.nrw.de