Neo-Nazi Counter-Demonstration Turns Violent in Germany
- Posted on September 4, 2011 at 9:40am by
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Police clashed with anti-neo-Nazi demonstrators who gathered to disrupt an annual neo-Nazi march in the German city of Dortmund Saturday.
German news organization Deutsche Welle described the demonstrators as “left-wing extremists,” about 1,500 of whom tried to break through the barriers police put up to separate them from the marching neo-Nazis.
The annual march is one of the largest in the country, with some 750 members taking part, Deutsche Well reported.
By contrast, about 10,000 anti-Nazi demonstrators gathered to take part in the counter-march, which turned violent.
Police were pelted with stones and bottles, as well as being targeted with pepper spray and fireworks by the left-wing extremists. One police officer was severely injured, according to the police, with several others also hurt.
Officers used batons and water cannon to break up the rioters, with more than 270 demonstrators arrested.
The violence against police was condemned by the minister in charge of interior affairs for the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia, Ralf Jäger. Police had been “defending people’s right to demonstrate,” said Jäger.
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Comments (69)
Bernard
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 4:38pmHere lies the difference from the so called “peaceful” anti Nazi demonstrators who used violence and thuggery to get their point, while the Nazi’s peacefully marched. So who is the hateful bigot? The more the Muslims and their cohorts think that they can “conquer” Europe to Islam or the left wing push their shameless agenda, the resurgence of the Whites is an invariable. The White population is waking up from decades of black and Muslim propaganda. All white nations should have an equal if not greater level of power over the rising population of radical blacks and Muslims. I say to these Nazi’s “do what it takes to rid Germany of these Muslim parasites and their supporter”.
Report Post »db321
Posted on September 5, 2011 at 12:30amI smell the end of Political Correctness.
Report Post »Carolina Infidel
Posted on September 5, 2011 at 9:18amPeople forget how much Hitler, Stalin, and Musolini were adored, by Americans even, right up until Hitler started killing Jews. Read “Liberal Fascism”.
A Nazi, by definition can’t be right wing. What part of National Socialist don’t people get? This is a clash of leftists.
In our own country, if the right would just recede into the shadows(and take all the canned foods with them), our left would eat themselves. None of the groups cobbled together by their hatred for the right even like each other.
Report Post »retriever
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 3:26pmI cannot believe that it is happening again. Anyone who has Jewish ancestry better make plans to get out before “never again”, happens again!
Report Post »AmericanSubject
Posted on September 5, 2011 at 2:33amHistory does not repeat so much as PPL, too lazy to think for themselves, are led like sheep by thier leaders, who can only live in the past, repeating the same dogmas in the quest for power over others.
Report Post »ying
Posted on September 5, 2011 at 3:07amI don‘t know where they’re gonna run this time, though, because NOBODY is going to take them this time around! NOBODY, not even Africa! They have made enemies with EVERY single person on the planet, causing **** everywhere they go. And, what’s really stupid of them is that they were given a big chance in the U.S. of A., and they were taken in and cared for, in turn have stolen all our gold, destroyed our economy with usury, have stolen farms from American citizens and have made new enemies for us left and right!
Report Post »NuffSaid
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 3:10pmhere we go again 1928. The Nazi and the communists fighting in the streets. Wake up Germany. Who are you going to be this time?
Report Post »welovetheUSA
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 2:43pmWhy would anyone want to repeat history……….
Report Post »Mountain Dew
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 2:13pmGermany 1920′s all over agian. If I were Jewish in Germany right now I would take the first plane, train, or automobile the hell out of there as fast as I could go.
Report Post »fearandloathing
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 1:19pmIt was the fear of communism that help create Hitler’s Nazi party. Guess what? They’re back. The Nazi’s started out small and with the help of reactionaries, like these rioters, convinced the normal population that they were right. Pray that history won’t repeat itself.
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 1:34pmI‘m just glad they’ve properly categorized the Nazis as “Left-wing”. Yes, it’s true the propaganda of the time convinced people that Nazis were the opposite of Communists, but the reality is that Nazis are very similar to Communists. Hitler saw Communism as a competitor.
Report Post »dodgeball
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 4:38pm@JAYCEN…I don’t guy, I have read that statement a few times (in the article), and it seems that the newspaper (Deutsche Welle), might be leaning more left than what you think because it almost sounded like they were talking about the demonstrators and NOT the Neo-Nazi’s (that were marching), that were being called Left-Wing extremists. They said some of the demonstrators (about 1500 of them), were the ones who were trying to break through to get to the marchers. That sounds kind of scary when the good guys are being labeled as Left Wing Extremists. What does that make the Neo-Nazis?
Report Post »Carolina Infidel
Posted on September 5, 2011 at 9:34amThe original fascist was the Socialist who decide to kick everyone’s a** to get his way instead of using strikes and sit-ins. Same with Nazis, they just don’t like the “peaceful” means of Socialists. Most ignorant Socialists are pulling for Marxism/Communism and think that makes them cool Anarchists. They don‘t know that they’re all the same.
Report Post »I think the real problem is stupidity and naivity, not political affiliation. Ignorant Olympic Ambassadors rioting with mobs in UK, stupid teenagers looting because its fun, brain-washed radical muslims blowing themselves up and killing anything, and apparently anyone with nothing better to do will turn over cars after hockey games. The best intelligent folks can hope for is a plague that targets stupidity and generates from camels and goats.
Ready2Rumble
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 1:04pmWhat can be expected from leftists.
Report Post »georgeisn6
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 12:53pmCommunist’s have allways been a violent lot. and they will be showing us just how violent they can be here in this country, soon. WAKE UP PEOPLE;
Report Post »Azreal
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 12:50pmleft and right wings in Europe are not the same as what it is in the United States. Of course this isn’t really pointed out lol.
Report Post »johnj1952
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 12:15pmTurned violent! DUH ya think so?
Report Post »TexOkie
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 11:28amThe left always resorts to violence to get their way, even when they have a righteous cause. One might have expected those “terrorist” right wingers to turn violent, but nope, it was the left. Again!
Report Post »barber2
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 11:01amOh, and maybe you should review Sentence Structure/ run-on sentences….
Report Post »barber2
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 10:59amMr. “Me and My Friend:” In addition to that great phone deal, you need to buy an English grammar book . Look the Section on Pronouns: Nominative and Objective Cases.
Report Post »affinnity
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 10:55amI still don‘t believe Nazi’s are considered right wing.
I think of my political table like this:
LEFT Social Libertarian – Conservative Libertarian – Traditional Conservative – Conservative Christian
affinnity
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 11:04amThis table is not what I wrote and is missing over 1/2 of what I wanted to say. Please remove my comment. Thank you.
Report Post »affinnity
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 11:06amPlease remove my comment.
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 11:12amGood as far as you go, but I see no place on your political table for either neo-Nazis or the anti-Nazi demonstrators we see here. Properly to “plot” political/ideological movements, you need a 2-dimensional or even a 3-dimensional scheme.
Report Post »SamIamTwo
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 11:15amGB you need a bloody edit button, get with the program dood.
Report Post »Trance
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 11:30amPolitical nomenclature is different in Europe. Since the term “conservative” means to uphold tradition, or to preserve conditions, a conservative in Europe would be pro-socialist. Since the Nazi party was a German patriotic socialist party (or National Socialist), they can rightly be called conservative for Germany.
Report Post »kschmud
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 11:51am@affinnity
Report Post »The terms left & right in america are TOTALLY different from the terms left/right in europe. In europe the left are the (global communists) and the right are Nazis (national socialists)…they both want total government control.
Ballot_Box_Revolution
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 12:46pmDid you just not get to finish your table? That is how it looks. If so the start of it is there, and i’m just curious how can you put both (opposite) “libertarian” groups on the same side (left) one is for big government the other is for small government….I think you are just putting the libertarians on the left, because they are both the ones that are the activists for their views…..so your left and right are based on activism, and not political views?
That being said there are no Social Libertarians……that is an oxymoron.; There may be some socialist blindly calling themselves libertarians i have had a few discussions with a few of them, but in reality they are socialists. Libertarians are not quite anarchists, but pretty close…they believe in maximum freedom, but also recognize the necessary evil of a limited government.
Report Post »southernORcobra
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 10:54amthis is a tactic the neos use cause they know the Left cannot control themselves they tried to do this in DC awhile back but it didn’t work because there were enough police to round up the university students that showed up to cause trouble.
Report Post »DREDGE
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 10:54amI wonder if the Muslims had a demonstration against all non-muslims would there be demonstrators against them?
Report Post »Rob
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 10:34amI hate to say it, not proud, but living in Southern California I am starting to sympathize with the neos….
Report Post »Ray2447
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 10:25amWhy did the left wing extremists attack the neo-nazis? They have so much in common?
Report Post »kschmud
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 10:50amNo. The European Big Gov‘t Right vs European Big Gov’t Left…long term opponents. I cannot explain as well as Glenn does…perhaps someone can assist in the explaination…
Report Post »AntiLiberal74
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 10:56amThe European left wing and right wing are basically the Socialists vs the Anarchists. Neither of those groups bear ANY resemblance to the American right wing. In fact, both would identify themselves as left wing over here.
Report Post »kschmud
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 11:22amThe anarchists want no gov’t at all…I do not think you can consider them part of the european right or left…who each want total government (just a different structure of it)
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 11:59amKSchmud:
Report Post »There is a left-wing anarchism and there is a right-wing anarchism. Both hate large authoritarian institutions of any kind, whether corporations, governments, labor unions, churches or schools.The left-wing variety generally think that once these have all been destroyed, “free” individuals will somehow spontaneously group themselves into loose, temporary units, for purposes of production, trade, education or whatever. The right-wing variety prefer a tribal vision of a future society, in which people of the same ethnicity voluntarily meld to express their “spirit” or “soul” (a favorite word among both Aryan and African enthusiasts). Some of the counter-protesters you see here may be of the left-wing variety of anarchist, though many will also be communists who favor tight organization and discipline, not anarchists at all, and some are probably simple pacifists. The Nazis I would call anarchists of expedience: they like to create or provoke disorder in order to advertise themselves as the remedy for it, but anarchy is not at all their ultimate aim.
Av8r1969
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 10:24aminnocent police ? that’s a hoot…..
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 10:21amHere is something to consider; this appears to me to be another extention of the Van Jones principle of “Pressure, pressure and more pressure…Bottom up, top down, inside out.”
See if this makes sense…and consider the message Glenn has mentioned of one band of idiots in Europe who went underground due to their dramatic and dangerous ideology…I cannot recall the name of their group though.
A. Extremists (neo-nazi) make their usual yearly pilgrimage and insanity message displays.
B. Counter extremists show up in over 10:1 count to protest the protesters.
C. Police (the law, symbol of “the big man” of government) attempt to keep them apart.
D. News crews out in force to monitor what is happening.
A handful of professional provocotours (like those SEIU loves to use), in each side inflames their bands with the usual rhetoric and hate filled lies and distortions, starts an incident while being filmed “defending” themselves from the law or the other sides “brutal and barbarious actions on innocent people…” then flee and wait for the chain reaction to continue.
Result: Chaos, confusion, injuries and death in some worse cases.
Next time: Law enforcement turns stronger pressure on, more dissent happens, social cry for the govenrment to ‘save the people’, etc…and the repeat of history commenses yet again.
Before you scoff at this being able to happen, look at the old nation of Checklosilvakia.
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 12:03pmCzechoslovakia when? 1938? 1948? 1968? 1989? Just askin’.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 3:38pm@Lloyd — Apologies for getting the nations name wrong and the date is 1968 (the Pragu uprising).
The thing of that uprising is it is where Soros is suppose to have had his first, successful collapsing of a government.
Report Post »Enuff Zenuff
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 10:07amWhatever we resist, we cause to persist… so trying to keep these idiots apart just makes it worse and innocent Police are the ones getting hurt.
How about we put all those who WANT to resort to violence in a big arena and let them kill each other with their bare hands? Charge admission to fund the police department – which will cost much less once these idiots are done tearing each other up. If they believe violence is their best solution – let them experience it. To make sure they’re all used up, award the last man standing a million dollar WWF contract.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 10:54amCan we throw a few would- be suicide bombers into the mix?
Report Post »ashestoashes
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 9:57amThis is confusing. There is a left and a right in Germany? I thought that Germany was the birthplace of Nazism. Wow….and I guess they still live..even here in America.
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeMZGGQ0ERk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMLJJEDDDGc
Lloyd Drako
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 10:08amA Guide for the Perplexed:
The Nazis are the somber-looking young men mostly in black t-shirts marching quietly with red, black and white flags–the old colors of the 2nd and 3rd Reichs..
The militant anti-Nazis are the ones marching with a red banner (something about “Nazis Schei__”) and wearing helmets and body armor.
The people running around wildly with backpacks and including lots of girls as well as boys are probably just curiosity-driven thrill-seekers.
Report Post »ashestoashes
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 11:00am@LLOYD DRAKO LOL…Thank you.
Report Post »whosafraidofspookydude1
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 11:03amuh nope good ol usa and old Woodrow Wilson cronies taught goebels and other less known socialist fools their craft in late 20′s. look at w wilsons actions during ww1 democrats only regime in us to implement dissenter camps or blue print for Stalin and Hitler reeducation camps….that’s why any knowledgeable person should laugh at ignorant statement of any conservative is Hitler…National Socialist party…or NAZI…their idea wasn’t far off of communism the leaders of industry like Krupp lived like kings where in soviet union party loyalist lived well.! Becks observation of all lefties working together happens through out history every 50-75 years…just saying
Report Post »barber2
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 9:55amAh, the deep “wisdom” of the Far Left Anarchy Crowd: taking their anger at the Neo-nazis out on the police. We know the Anarchists hate rules / authority / police probably more than they hate the Neo-Nazis…
Report Post »undercover
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 9:54amComing to a city near you!
Report Post »YepImaConservative
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 9:52amHmmmmm, two radical left wing organizations in opposition to each other. Three if you count the German Police.
Report Post »Chuck Stein
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 10:16amI don’t see how the German police would fall into the “radical left”
Report Post »TroyBray
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 10:43am@ Chuck.
Report Post »German police work for the German Government, a socialist/ semi-fascist organization set up along European centralist lines. Europeans are ALL left wing radicals, Big government that has rights, some of which it parcels out to the individual, but government authority is the basis. America has (theoretically at least) individual rights with a select few loaned to the government in order to assist individuals in their lives, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. Yes, German Police are a left wing organization.
YepImaConservative
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 10:52amSarcasm Chuck Stein, WWII sarcasm…
Report Post »Chuck Stein
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 12:22pmO.K. Anyway . . . it reminds me of a joke:
Report Post »In Heaven, the Germans are the car mechanics, the French are the cooks and the English are the police. But in Hell, the French are the car mechanics, the English are the cooks and the Germans are the police.