holocaust

Am 22. März sorgte eine Razzia im Reichsbürger-Milieu für Aufsehen. In Reutlingen wurde dabei ein SEK-Beamter angeschossen, auch in Stuttgart gab es eine Durchsuchung. Die Maßnahmen standen im Zusammenhang mit Terror-Ermittlungen der Bundesanwaltschaft und betrafen vor allem Personen, die im Verfahren als Zeugen geführt werden. Der Schütze von Reutlingen war einer dieser Zeugen. Ein weiterer Mann, dessen Wohnung im Reutlinger Stadtteil Altenburg durchsucht wurde, fiel in der Vergangenheit mit Umsturz- und Gewaltfantasien auf. Und besuchte Querdenker-Demos. Razzia in Reutlingen-Altenburg: Unter dem Radar der Öffentlichkeit Durch die Schüsse auf SEK-Beamte ging die Razzia in Reutlingen-Altenburg am 22. März in Medienberichten eher unter. Die Südwestpresse berichtete zuerst darüber, und legte am 31. März mit einer großen Recherche zu der betroffenen Person nach. „Der Durchsuchte verbreitet gefährliche Hetze“, heißt es darin. Er besuche regelmäßig Querdenker-Demos in der Region und sei bei einer AfD-Veranstaltung im März 2022 als Ordner eingesetzt gewesen. Der Name des Mannes ist unserer Redaktion bekannt. Wie der Südwestpresse wurden auch uns Aufnahmen des Einsatzes zugespielt, die den SEK-Einsatz in Altenburg zeigen. Und Dokumente, die einen eindeutigen Bezug zwischen dem Mann und einem Account beim Messenger-Dienst Telegram herstellen. Auch unsere eigenen Recherchen zeigen, dass vom Account des Mannes in den letzten zwei Jahren in zahlreichen Kanälen dutzende radikale Beiträge abgesetzt wurden. Die Inhalte: Antisemitismus, Morddrohungen, Umsturzpläne. Die Feindbilder: Politiker, Mediziner, Journalisten. (…) Neben den radikalen Äußerungen hängt der Mann offenbar unzähligen Verschwörungserzählungen an: Von QAnon über die Vorstellung einer flachen Erde bis hin zum Reichsbürgertum. Video- und Fotomaterial, dass er in einem bekannten Telegram-Kanal der Reichsbürger-Szene teilte, zeigt ihn mit anderen Personen an einem Bismarck-Denkmal, eine Reichsflagge in der Hand. An anderer Stelle äußert er sich mehrfach antisemitisch, leugnet den Holocaust und gibt Juden die Schuld am Zweiten Weltkrieg.

via zvw: Terror-Ermittlungen gegen Reichsbürger: Gewaltfantasien eines Reutlinger Zeugen

The Nazis themselves were murder nerds. Now their successors are LARPing as wizards of racial superiority as they commit very real atrocities—as seen in the recent parent killing in Wisconsin. Deep in northwestern Westphalia, Germany, stands a twelfth-century castle conceived by Heinrich Himmler, leader of the paramilitary Schutzstaffel, as a kind of “Camelot” for the triumphal knights of the Aryan race. The Wewelsburg Castle was also a fantasy nerd’s dream come true. In its bowels lies an occult enclave straight out of Cecil B. DeMille: an Arthurian-style set of catacombs designed to look medieval but actually made of concrete. Above, in the Hall of the Supreme S.S. Leaders, there’s a marble floor inlaid with a design of the Black Sun, or Sonnenrad—a circle containing swastika-like arms that epitomizes Nazi striving to create an idealized Norse-Aryan past for themselves. Himmler started renovations on the castle in the mid-1930s; the Nazi paradise he built was meant to host S.S. ceremonies, such as handing particularly distinguished murderers the Totenkopfring, a ring adorned with the signature S.S. skull but also a variety of quasi-Nordic runes and symbolic oak leaves, designed by Himmler’s personal occultist, a purportedly clairvoyant mystic by the name of Karl Wiligut. The Nazis, in short, were obsessed with legend and magic. Consider the swastika itself: First written about in Germany by the archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, who discovered the symbol in the ruins of Troy in 1868, the swastika was seized on by Hitler—whose birthday falls on Easter Sunday this year—as emblematic of the idealized, quasi-mythical Aryan race he sought to recreate. More to the point, the Nazis were murder nerds, LARPing as wizards of racial superiority as they committed very real atrocities. And the same is true of their successors today. Partly aping their dead heroes and partly engaged in a similar delusion—self-mythologizing as the scions of an ancient white race—neo-Nazis are a remarkably myth-oriented bunch. This manifests in a lot of different ways, like engaging in werewolf-themed cultic neopaganism or dedicating themselves to Norse gods. Or, in a recent newsworthy example, following the Order of the Nine Angles, a late-twentieth-century neo-Nazi pseudoreligion that seeks to turn its adherents into racially pure Satanic wizards. Earlier this week, a Waukesha, Wisconsin, teenager and devotee of the Order of the Nine Angles, or ONA, was charged with murdering his mother and stepfather and plotting to assassinate President Donald Trump, in order to further the Order’s goals of a world plunged into chaotic violence. “Jewish occupied governments must fall. The white race cannot survive unless America collapses,” the 17-year-old, Nikita Casap, wrote in a manifesto. “Huge amounts of violence will be required.” He called himself a “niner” (a Nine Angles devotee) and encouraged his imitators to read a variety of extremist books. In doing so, Casap drew on nearly a century of blood-drenched legacy in his pairing of violent death with a potent dose of magical thinking. The symbol of the Order of the Nine Angles looks, more than anything, like a mutilated cat’s cradle, just as their ideology is a muddle of inverted myths, profligate cruelty, and pure bigotry. It’s a religion of shock and destruction, and as such, it has appealed particularly to young men—teens seeking to break away from their parents, and aimless mid-twenties men who want to blaze a path of dubious glory by blood. The movement was created in the 1970s by a British neo-Nazi named David Myatt, nicknamed the “Cat Strangler” by his friends because of his affinity for torturing animals. His ideology reflects the charming sobriquet. In 1999, a 22-year-old man reportedly inspired by Myatt’s book A Practical Guide to Aryan Revolution planted bombs embedded with nails in areas frequented by London’s minority and gay communities, injuring 129 people and killing three. In Myatt’s work and speeches, an increasingly elaborate cosmology is paired with direct calls to terrorist action, all in the service of ushering in an eschatological race war. Affiliated with the so-called “Left-Hand Path” of magic—dark or black magic—the ONA offers such occult hokum as a world divided into the seven branches of the “Tree of Wyrd,” a creator deity named Vindex, and individual cells called “nexions.”

via newrepublic: Why Neo-Nazis Are Obsessed With the Occult