Fourteen words

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Fourteen Words (German: "fourteen words") is a veiled paraphrase for a widespread belief of white neo-Nazis and racists, especially in the United States , but now also in Europe : " We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children . In German: “ We have to secure the existence of our people and a future for the white children. “The US right-wing extremist David Eden Lane is considered to be the inventor of the Fourteen Words .

With our people ("our people") in Lane's sentence is not meant the nation of the United States, but the "Aryan race" . The sentence sums up the conviction of neo-Nazis, especially in the USA, which is very similar to the worldview of the German National Socialists : According to this view, the “ white race ” is superior to the other “ races ”. These other "races" - especially Jews and blacks - would try to fight the whites and drive them from their rightful place. The whites would have to defend themselves against this, both in order to secure the supposedly rightful place for their members living today and to make such a place possible for their future members ( White Supremacy ).

Most supporters of this world view understand the required assurance that the whites should stand as a ruling class over the other "races", which would be tolerated as useful servants but subjected to racial segregation . This concept is similar to the plans of the German National Socialists regarding the Slavs . Others tend to strive for a large-scale geographical separation, in which only whites are allowed to live , especially in North America . An annihilation of non-white people in the sense of a Holocaust has not been advocated by broad groups, at least so far.

The Fourteen Words are often further obscured by the number code 14; the creed is then essentially only recognizable to the initiated. The 14 often occurs in combination with other codes, in particular as 1488, 14/88 or 88/14, for example as a greeting in letters and emails, in song texts, as a t-shirt print, patch, jewelry, jacket emblem or on CD cases. The 88 can either refer to Lane 88 principles or stand as a code for " Heil Hitler " ( H is the eighth letter in the alphabet, see right-wing extremist symbols and signs ).

Since the mid-1990s at the latest, the concept and numerical code have also been adopted by neo-Nazis in European countries. A well-known right-wing rock band, which was founded in 1996 and in which several members of the forbidden Free Comradeship Skinheads Saxon Switzerland participate, bears the name 14 Nothelfer . Her song 14 Words says: “There is a sentence that you never forget! Fight, live, argue for him! 14 words, never forget! ".

1488 is also the name of a band whose 1995 album "Past Times", published on Doktor Records , a sub-label of Torsten Lemmer's right-wing rock label Funny Sounds , was classified and indexed by the Federal Testing Office for Media Harmful to Young People in 2013 as "harmful to young people".

André Eminger , supporter of the right-wing extremist terror group National Socialist Underground , used the code 14/88 several times in his written communication.

literature

  • Mattias Gardell : David Lane. In: Jeffrey Kaplan (Ed.): Encyclopedia of White Power. A Sourcebook on the Radical Racist Right. Altamira Press, Washington, DC 2000, pp. 167-169 (preview) .

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Jan Adam: inventor of the right-wing extremist numerical code “14 words” died. In: Endstation Rechts , June 27, 2007. Translation after Christian Fuchs , John Goetz : The cell: Right terror in Germany. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2012, p. 137 (e-book) .
  2. ↑ List of titles that were suggested to be indexed by the State Criminal Police Office and indexed by the BPjM (PDF). Ministry of the Interior and Local Authority Brandenburg, 2013.
  3. ↑ Stefan Aust , Dirk Laabs : Heimatschutz. The state and the NSU series of murders. Pantheon, Munich 2014, p. 383 f .; Andrea Röpke : NSU Complex: Brown Family Ties ( Memento from April 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: Publikative.org , April 2, 2014.