Group tours concentration camp as part of German ‘Football and Remembrance’ program, learns about the persecution of Jewish players and coaches imprisoned there Fans from Scotland, Ukraine, Germany, Israel and other nations laid wreaths at the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site on Saturday to commemorate victims of the Nazis, vowing “never again” and to use soccer as a force to unite people. The group toured the camp and heard how the Nazis had persecuted Jewish soccer players and coaches, forced prisoners to play soccer for propaganda before banning it, then allowed only some inmates to play under the camp’s hierarchy of privileges for different categories of prisoner. Fans also heard the children of former camp victims tell their parents’ stories, walked in procession with a Scottish bagpiper. Dachau is half an hour’s drive from Munich’s soccer stadium, where Euro 2024 began on Friday. It was one of the first concentration camps to be set up by the Nazis, weeks after Adolf Hitler took power in January, 1933. (…) Saturday’s event comes amid Germany’s nationwide “Football and Remembrance” program for Euro 2024, looking at how the Nazis murdered athletes and used soccer for their own ends, with tours at historical sites close to the host cities. Soccer at Dachau The Nazi SS guards had photos taken in 1933 showing prisoners playing soccer at Dachau, most likely to try to deceive the outside world that inmates were well treated. Soccer was then banned at the camp until 1943, when the Nazis needed to use the fittest prisoners for munitions manufacturing, and so allowed the sport as a perk. However, Jewish prisoners, at the very bottom of the Nazis’ racist hierarchy of prisoners, were excluded. The soccer pitch on sandy ground was by the camp’s roll-call square. “What we know from survivor accounts is that you could always notice the smell of burning bodies in the air, you saw the perimeter fence, and the emaciated prisoners. These were [soccer] games under extreme conditions,” said Maximilian Luetgens, a historian at Dachau who is leading the historical tours.
Bei n-tv sind Lars Klingbeil und Alice Weidel heftig aneinandergeraten. Der SPD-Chef sprach im Zusammenhang mit der AfD von »Nazis« – und blieb auch auf Nachfrage dabei. (…) Klingbeil sagte auf die Frage, ob er bei der Bundestagswahl 2025 mit einem ähnlichen Ergebnis wie bei der Europawahl rechne, beides könne nicht miteinander verglichen werden. »Ich glaube auch, dass das Ergebnis der Europawahl viele Menschen noch mal wachrüttelt, dass die Nazis bei dieser Wahl stärker geworden sind, und ich glaube, da wachen viele auf und kämpfen für die Demokratie«, fügte der SPD-Vorsitzende hinzu. »Wen meinen Sie denn damit?«, fragte Weidel daraufhin scharf. »Das wissen Sie, dass ich die AfD und Sie meine«, entgegnete Klingbeil. Und auf Weidels Rückfrage: »Sie haben mich und die Partei gerade als Nazis bezeichnet?«, legte der SPD-Chef noch einmal mit einem klaren »Ja« nach. Weidel verwendete daraufhin mehrfach den Begriff »Unverschämtheit«. Die BSW-Vorsitzende Sahra Wagenknecht schaltete sich ein und sagte: »Man sollte auch mit der AfD etwas differenzierter umgehen.« An Weidel gerichtet, fügte Wagenknecht hinzu: »Sie haben schon Leute in ihren Reihen, das wissen Sie auch Frau Weidel, für die das zutrifft.« Als Beispiele nannte sie den Thüringer AfD-Landesvorsitzenden Björn Höcke und den Spitzenkandidaten der AfD für die Europawahl, Maximilian Krah.
Zwei Tage vor der Europawahl hat ein breites Bündnis mit einer Großdemonstration in der Hamburger Innenstadt ein Zeichen gegen Rechtsextremismus gesetzt. Laut den Organisatoren kamen 30.000 Teilnehmende, die Polizei sprach von bis 26.000 Menschen. “Rechtsextremismus stoppen, Demokratie verteidigen, wählen gehen” hieß das Motto der Demonstration, zu der unter anderem die Nordkirche, “Fridays for Future”, der DGB Hamburg, das Bündnis Go Vote und Vereine wie “Klare Kante gegen Rechts” oder “Unternehmer ohne Grenzen” aufgerufen hatten. Vor allem junge Menschen sollten zum Wählen am Sonntag bewegt werden. In der Menge waren Plakate mit Slogans wie “Ja zum Rechtsstaat. Nein zu Rechts”, “Hass + Hetze sind keine Alternative für Deutschland” oder “Huck Föcke” zu lesen. “Die AfD ist Feindin der Beschäftigten” Bei den Wahlen komme es auf jeden an, sagte Hamburgs DGB-Chefin Tanja Chawla. “Klar ist: Die AfD ist Feindin der Beschäftigten. Wir sagen: Wählt Zukunft, wählt demokratisch!” Der Hauptgeschäftsführer des Unternehmensverbands Nord (UV Nord), Thomas Fröhlich warnte vor einem Rechtsruck. Jeder vierte Beschäftigte der Unternehmen im Norden habe Migrationshintergrund. “Wir werden uns unsere hart erarbeitete und heute ganz selbstverständlich etablierte Willkommenskultur von nichts und niemandem nehmen lassen.”
Die Agrarsoziologin Janna Luisa Pieper darf die Organisationen Freie Bauern sowie Land schafft Verbindung (LSV) Schleswig-Holstein und Hamburg als „rechtspopulistisch“ bezeichnen. Zulässig ist Gerichtsentscheidungen zufolge auch ihre Aussage, dass Anthony Lee – Sprecher von LSV Deutschland und Europawahlkandidat der Freien Wähler – durch „rechtsextreme bis hin zu rechtspopulistischen Aussagen aufgefallen“ sei. Damit hat die Wissenschaftlerin der Universität Göttingen alle Verfahren gewonnen, die der oft für die Freien Bauern gegen Kritiker vorgehende Rechtsanwalt Stephan Stiletto für die Organisationen und Lee begonnen hatte. (…) Pieper hatte im Februar in einem NDR-Interview von „rechtspopulistischen Vereinigungen innerhalb der Landwirtschaft“ gesprochen und gesagt: „dazu zählen natürlich auch LSV und die Freien Bauern“. Sie verwies auch auf „Personen bei LSV wie Anthony Lee, der in der Vergangenheit durch rechtsextreme bis hin zu rechtspopulistischen Aussagen aufgefallen ist“. (…) Im Fall LSV war es das Landgericht Hamburg. Und die zweite Instanz, das Hanseatische Oberlandesgericht, bestätigte: „Ob jemand als rechtspopulistisch eingeordnet wird, ist zweifelsohne eine Frage des Wertens und Meinens.“ Für diese Meinung über LSV gebe es genügend Anhaltspunkte. Allen voran Lees Behauptung in einem Interview der niederländischen Influencerin Eva Vlaardingerbroek von Mitte Januar, Politiker wollten Landwirten ihr Land zugunsten von Flüchtlingen wegnehmen. „Diese Antwort, die einen schweren Vorwurf gegenüber der Bundesregierung beinhaltet, darf zulässig als rechtspopulistisch bezeichnet werden“, entschieden die Richter. Zudem dürfe sie „als ausländerfeindlich“ gelten. Anders als Stiletto argumentiert hatte, müsse sich LSV Lees Äußerung zurechnen lassen, selbst wenn sich der Landwirt als Kandidat der Freien Wähler geäußert hätte. Schließlich sei Lee Pressesprecher des LSV Bundesverbands, und weder dieser noch der Landesverband in Schleswig-Holstein und Hamburg hätten sich von Lees Behauptung distanziert
An Army National Guardswoman and part-time band instructor for Mountain Ridge High School was outed this week for her involvement in the local neo-Nazi and white nationalist scene. Left Coast Right Watch first reported on Ashley Drago’s marriage to David Ryan Drake, who was convicted of manslaughter in 2007 for a racial motivated stabbing. After being released from prison and finding it difficult to maintain employment because his name was easily tied to his neo-Nazi beliefs, he legally changed it to Aleksander Drago. The Dragos are both allegedly involved in a local neo-Nazi club that is part of a larger network of extremist organizations aimed at recruiting younger men. These “active clubs” have harassed the LGBTQ+ community and spread antisemitism. (…) Ashley Drago is a member of the Arizona Army National Guard, where she plays saxophone for the 108th Army Band and has been pictured in Instagram photos posted by the Army. The band was slated to perform for Gov. Katie Hobbs earlier this week at a Memorial Day service; the Governor’s Office declined to comment if she was a part of the service. (…) Ashley Drago appears to be behind a Telegram account associated with the Arizona active club that pushes “TradWife” beliefs. The TradWife Movement aims to instill ideas of the 1950s housewife, but have many beliefs that are rooted in white supremacist ideology. LCRW found that she can be seen in multiple posts made by the account. The account has made references to white nationalist talking points and made antisemitic comments while posting symbols used by neo-Nazis. Photos of Ashley Drago appear in numerous photos of the 108th Army Band including one of her wedding overseen and attended by white supremacists.
siehe auch: MEET THE KILLER NEO-NAZI MASSEUSE AND HIS SAX-PLAYING ARMY RESERVIST TRADWIFE. (…) On May 25, 2021 Drago legally married Ashley June Krogstad. That November, Drago and Krogstad would hold an outdoor “handfasting” wedding ceremony that was “officiated” by Joseph Rozanek, an organizer and “gothi” with the whites-only Asatru Folk Assembly. Wedding guests would include other members of the neo-Völkisch hate group, an organization that blends a distorted version of paganism with white supremacy. (…) In February, TAC-AZ and Tribal Arya Society helped to organize “HyperboreaFest,” a Utah camping trip alongside multiple Patriot Front cells and former Rise Above Movement member Ryan Sanchez, who now lives in Glendale, Arizona. The hike included a bonfire of Pride flags and fliers for a conference on gender identity at the University of Colorado. The multiple Tribal Arya Society and TAC-AZ Telegram, Gab and Twitter accounts would attempt to obscure the faces of members at these meetups, but several of those same photos were unblurred on Asatru Folk Assembly’s social media. (…) While Active Clubs are normally exclusive to men, TAC-AZ footage often features a woman working out and dropping racist propaganda alongside the group. The woman also appears in photos and videos on Tribal Arya Society’s social media and two other Telegram accounts: “TheModernTradwife” and “ModernTradwife.” In multiple posts on those accounts in which the woman’s identity is obscured, she has a similar build, clothing and hairstyle as Ashley June Drago (née Krogstad). In other posts, however, Ashley Drago could be seen with little to no attempt to hide her identity. In one video posted by ModernTradwife, Ashley Drago raises up a drinking horn as the text overlaid reads “Embrace Tradition.” This is from a TAC-AZ outing that was censored on their own account. “Wholesome Midwest childhood” the caption of one photo reads. “First post flashback. ‘Tis yours truly.” “Anonymous reveal,” reads another image shared to TheModernTradwife. Though her face is censored in this post, the unique wallpaper behind Ashley Drago matches the wallpaper in her husband’s work bio photo. In a video celebrating Oktoberfest in Tempe, Arizona, the woman is blurred but no attempt was made to obscure Ryan Drago’s face, who has his arm around her. (…) Ashley Drago appears in numerous photos on the 108th Army Band’s instagram and Facebook page, including in an image from her white supremacist “handfasting” wedding ceremony. Her uniform displays her married name: “Drago.” On February 5, 2024, a post on the 108th Army Band social media announced she had been promoted to sergeant.
The home where he is under arrest is on a far-right website. And the message: “We will offer you something welcome…” Ilaria Salis The address where Ilaria Salis is under house arrest in Budapest «published on a Hungarian far-right site» with a «special» dedication and the disturbing offer of a «welcome little thing». These are the threats addressed to Ilaria Salis, according to the complaint by democratic jurists, designated international observers in the ongoing trial of the Lombard teacher, detained in Hungary for over thirteen months and under house arrest in the Hungarian capital for a few days, because she is accused of having taken took part in an attack on two neo-Nazi militants. «A predictable and foreseen effect, we believe, which makes what happened in the hearing room last May 24th, when the judge read Salis’s “secret” address aloud, of unprecedented gravity», add the Democratic Jurists in an open letter to the institutions and Italian diplomatic representations in Hungary, with a call for attention and mobilization to protect the 39-year-old.
siehe auch: Democratic jurists: Hungarian pores and skin Nazis threaten Salis. On a website, his tackle and the provide of “a welcome little one thing”. The tackle the place he’s underneath home arrest in Budapest “revealed on a far-right Hungarian website” with “the particular dedication and the provide of a ‘welcome little one thing’”. These are the threats addressed to Ilaria Salis in keeping with the criticism by democratic jurists, designated worldwide observers on the ongoing trial of the Lombard instructor who has been detained in Hungary for over 13 months and has been underneath home arrest within the Hungarian capital for a couple of days. “A predictable and foreseen impact, we consider, which makes what occurred within the courtroom on May twenty fourth of unprecedented gravity”, when the choose learn Salis’ ‘secret’ tackle aloud, add the Democratic Jurists in open letter to the establishments and Italian diplomatic representations in Hungary, with an invite to concentrate and mobilize to guard Ilaria Salis. “The security of Ilaria Salis is a precedence that we should all essentially deliver to the eye of the general public and the competent authorities. What has sadly already occurred and continues to threaten Ilaria is unacceptable – underline the Democratic Jurists – and requires instant intervention, exact and environment friendly safety of one in every of our compatriots already severely affected by inhuman and degrading state therapy and as we speak uncovered by the judicial authority itself to the hazard of being subjected to different dangerous and degrading therapies by the hands of neo-Nazi militants”.
It was May 30, 1941 when two teenage Greek boys, Manolis Glezos and Lakis Santas, climbed up the Acropolis and took down the Nazi flag. It was the very first of many brave acts of resistance against the occupying army in World War Two in Greece. One of the most humiliating moments—not only for Greece but for all humanity—was when on April 28, 1941, the Nazi flag, the swastika, was hoisted atop Acropolis Hill on the very cradle of democracy and Western Civilization. It was the day when German troops entered Athens to take control of the surrendered city. The moment the Nazi flag flew in the sky of Attica marked the beginning of three and a half years of pain, hunger, and death under the Wermarcht boot. Yet two young men, barely 18, made a heroic move that later proved to be the beginning of the great Greek resistance to the Nazis. The two youths, Manolis Glezos and Lakis Santas, climbed Acropolis Hill at night and took down the swastika flag, dealing a symbolic blow to the powerful occupying forces. Taking down Nazi flag was an act of defiance It was a gallant act, an act of proud defiance which ultimately raised the spirit of Greece and made them believe that, indeed, they could resist the Nazis. It was a demonstration of the power of the human spirit against the power of guns. The young men’s plan to pull down the Nazi flag from the Acropolis had been organized days earlier. They read everything they found about the Acropolis in encyclopedias. Most importantly, they read about natural tunnels and crevices in the Sacred Rock and other points where they could hide. On the morning of May 30, 1941, Glezos and Santas heard on the radio that Crete had fallen. The two young men decided it was time to act.
