Die Staats- und Wirtschaftspolitische Gesellschaft e. V. (SWG) um den geschäftsführenden Vorstand Stephan Ehmke und Bernd Kallina steht im Ukrainekrieg fest an der Seite des russischen Präsidenten Wladimir Putin. Den Angriffskrieg Russlands versucht die SWG, in der viele Bundeswehroffiziere a. D. verkehren, nicht nur zu erklären, sondern auch zu rechtfertigen – steuerlich absetzbar, da gemeinnützig.
via taz#: Der rechtsextreme Hamburger Verein SWG :Putins Freunde an der Elbe
The massacre at Distomo remains to this day one of the most heinous crimes the Nazis committed against innocent women and children just months before the German occupying forces pulled out of Greece. On June 10, 1944, Fritz Laufenbach, captain of the 2nd company of the 1st battalion of the 7th SS armored regiment, was ordered to move his troops from Livadia to Distomo, Steiri, and Kyriaki in order to locate guerrillas on the western side of Helicon Mountain. This move by the German soldiers was in retaliation for several troops who had been killed by the Greek Resistance. As bait, the Nazis had used two Greek civilian trucks filled with SS men disguised as villagers. The two trucks were moving ahead of the main phalanx. At the same time, the 10th and 11th Amphissa companies of the 3rd Battalion were directed to Distomo to meet the 2nd company. The German troops met outside Distomo without finding any resistance fighters, save for eighteen children hiding close to the village. Six of the children who tried to escape were executed. (…) After the casualties they had suffered at Steiri, the Nazis entered Distomo with a clear intention of retaliation for their losses. The cold-blooded massacre of everyone they found in the village then began. Around 600 people were killed by the Nazis in the wider region of Distomo in 1944. They went from door to door, killing everyone at first sight. Their fury was such that they did not care if they killed women and children. The slaughter lasted into the night until the Nazi troops had to return to Livadia. However, they did not leave before burning the entire village to the ground. According to survivors describing the atrocities, SS soldiers bayoneted babies in their cribs, stabbed pregnant women, and beheaded the village priest. However, the Germans did not stop at Distomo. The executions continued all the way back to their base, as they killed any civilian they encountered on the way. The death count in Distomo amounted to 228 of which 117 were women and 111 men while 53 were children under the age of sixteen.
via greekreporter: Greece Remembers the Cold-Blooded Nazi Massacre at Distomo
siehe auch: Distomo. (…) Am 10. Juni 1944 überfielen Angehörige der 2. Kompanie des 7. SS-Panzergrenadierregiments der 4. SS-Panzer-Grenadier-Division unter dem Kommando des SS-Hauptsturmführers Fritz Lautenbach das kleine, nur wenige hundert Einwohner zählende Dorf Distomo. Sie ermordeten – vom Säugling bis zum Greis – unterschiedslos alle Einwohner, die sie antrafen, und verwüsteten das Dorf. Nur wenige der von den SS-Soldaten in Distomo angetroffenen Bewohner haben in Verstecken oder, wie der damals knapp 4-jährige Argyris Sfountouris, durch Zufall überlebt. Einzelheiten der überlieferten Berichte überlebender Opfern, griechischer Behörden, auch beteiligter SS-Leute und der wenige Tage später von Athen herbeigeholten Beobachter des Internationalen Komitees vom Roten Kreuz sowie Akten späterer Gerichtsverfahren zeichnen ein grauenvolles Bild des Geschehens und der barbarischen Zerstörungswut der SS-Truppe. Der schwedische Delegierte des Internationalen Komitees des Roten Kreuzes, Prof. Sture Linnér, der wenige Tage nach dem Massaker in Distomo eintraf: ,,Über der Gegend lag ein fürchterlicher Gestank von Brand und Verwesung […] Überall lagen Tote. Ich kann nicht sagen, wie viele es waren. Auf mich wirkte es, als wären es hunderte. Darunter waren Frauen, deren Bäuche aufgeschlitzt waren. Die Eingeweide quollen heraus. Einigen Frauen waren die Brüste abgeschnitten, Männern hatte man das Geschlechtsteil abgetrennt. Daneben lagen Kinder, deren Schädel zertreten waren. In den ausgebrannten Häusern glimmte noch die Glut“ (zit. nach Begemann 2003, S. 30). Hintergründe des Massakers und Versuche der Vertuschung Die zentralgriechische böotische Region um Distomo war im Frühjahr und Sommer 1944, wenige Monate vor dem Abzug der im April 1941 in Griechenland eingefallenen deutschen Truppen, Schauplatz zahlreicher Attacken der ELAS-Partisanen auf deutsche Einrichtungen und Truppen. Die Reaktion der Besatzungsmacht bestand aus immer brutaleren Vergeltungsmaßnahmen, aus willkürlichen Geiselnahmen und -exekutionen, aus Zerstörung ganzer Dörfer und aus Massakern an der Zivilbevölkerung.
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The government uses paid informants to learn about hate groups. But did that money help fuel the same movement it was supposed to be stopping? For years, Joshua Caleb Sutter, an avowed white supremacist from South Carolina, has published and sold books glorifying torture, child abuse, rape, terrorism, mass murder and more – all in the name of his racist and satanic beliefs. His self-published books have become go-to texts for some of the most extreme and violent white supremacists across the world. They have become required reading in a sinister satanist cult that has spread to several countries and has already inspired several known terrorists and would-be mass killers. The ideas Sutter pushes are so vile they have proven too much even for some of the country’s most dangerous and violent neo-Nazis. In 2018 several people left the white supremacist domestic terrorism group Atomwaffen Division, citing Sutter’s books – and his growing influence in the organization – as too radical even for them. Since 2004, while his publishing business and his influence over radical white supremacists have swelled, Sutter has had another benefactor: the American taxpayer. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has paid him at least $140,000 over the past 18 years to provide information about the extremist groups he associates with, according to court records (…) But the relationship between the federal government and one of the chief propagandists of the most radical wing of white supremacy, experts say, raises profound concerns, including whether the agency actually directs public money to help fund the very same extremist movements and hateful propaganda it is supposed to be clamping down on.
via usatoday: He publishes books on satanism and torture to inspire neo-Nazis. The FBI has paid him $140,000
Prosecutors dispute the former Trump trade adviser’s claims he was shackled and denied food and water following his arrest on a charge of defying a subpoena. Former Trump administration official Peter Navarro called the FBI agents who arrested him “Nazis,” according to Justice Department documents filed Thursday in court accusing Navarro of repeatedly lying about the conditions of his arrest. FBI agents arrested Navarro at Reagan National Airport last Friday on a pair of misdemeanor charges that he acted in contempt of Congress by defying a subpoena from the Jan. 6 House select committee. Since his arrest, Navarro has been on a media tear, accusing the FBI of denying him a chance to call a lawyer and depriving him of food and water. But the Justice Department says all of those claims are false, and it appended a summary of the circumstances of Navarro’s arrest on an FBI 302 report written by the two agents who arrested him, Walter Giardina and Sebastian Gardner.
via politico: FBI: Navarro called arresting agents ‘kind Nazis’
The social media posts are of a distinct type. They hint darkly that the CIA or the FBI are behind mass shootings. They traffic in racist, sexist and homophobic tropes. They revel in the prospect of a “white boy summer.” White nationalists and supremacists, on accounts often run by young men, are building thriving, macho communities across social media platforms like Instagram, Telegram and TikTok, evading detection with coded hashtags and innuendo. Their snarky memes and trendy videos are riling up thousands of followers on divisive issues including abortion, guns, immigration and LGBTQ rights. The Department of Homeland Security warned Tuesday that such skewed framing of the subjects could drive extremists to violently attack public places across the U.S. in the coming months. These type of threats and racist ideology have become so commonplace on social media that it’s nearly impossible for law enforcement to separate internet ramblings from dangerous, potentially violent people, Michael German, who infiltrated white supremacy groups as an FBI agent, told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. “It seems intuitive that effective social media monitoring might provide clues to help law enforcement prevent attacks,” German said. “After all, the white supremacist attackers in Buffalo, Pittsburgh and El Paso all gained access to materials online and expressed their hateful, violent intentions on social media.” But, he continued, “so many false alarms drown out threats.” DHS and the FBI are also working with state and local agencies to raise awareness about the increased threat around the U.S. in the coming months. The heightened concern comes just weeks after a white 18-year-old entered a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, with the goal of killing as many Black patrons as possible. He gunned down 10. That shooter claims to have been introduced to neo-Nazi websites and a livestream of the 2019 Christchurch, New Zealand mosque shootings on the anonymous, online messaging board 4Chan. In 2018, the white man who gunned down 11 at a Pittsburgh synagogue shared his antisemitic rants on Gab, a site that attracts extremists. The year before, a 21-year-old white man who killed 23 people at a Walmart in the largely Hispanic city of El Paso, Texas, shared his anti-immigrant hate on the messaging board 8Chan. References to hate-filled ideologies are more elusive across mainstream platforms like Twitter, Instagram, TikTok and Telegram. To avoid detection from artificial intelligence-powered moderation, users don’t use obvious terms like “white genocide” or “white power” in conversation.
via ap: White supremacists are riling up thousands on social media
Er war auf dem Weg nach Hause, als sie auf ihn einschlugen: In Hamburg ist ein Junge von zwei Männern attackiert worden, teilte die Polizei mit. Mögliches Motiv: Rassismus. Ein Zwölfjähriger ist in Hamburg von zwei unbekannten Männern aus offenbar rassistischen Motiven beleidigt und körperlich attackiert worden. Wie die Polizei in der Hansestadt mitteilte, schlugen diese nach bisherigen Erkenntnissen mit Fäusten und einem Gehstock nach dem Jungen. Der Vorfall ereignete sich am Mittwoch im Stadtteil Billstedt, der Junge befand sich gerade auf dem Weg nach Hause. Nach Angaben der Ermittler ging er dabei an zwei auf einer Bank sitzenden Männern vorbei, die beide angetrunken gewesen sein sollen. Sie beleidigten ihn zunächst rassistisch, dann verfolgte einer der beiden ihn, stieß den Zwölfjährigen zu Boden und versetzte ihm einen Faustschlag gegen die Schulter und den Bauch, hieß es weiter. Der andere schlug mit einem Gehstock gegen dessen Bein.
spiegel: Offenbar rassistisch motiviert Zwölfjähriger in Hamburg beleidigt und mit Gehstock verprügelt
