Ranks of German neo-Nazis growing
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Published: 16 Apr, 2008 CET.
Updated: Wed 16 Apr 2008 11:06 CET
The number of neo-Nazis in Germany increased by five percent in the last year, German tabloid daily Bild reported on Wednesday.
The paper cited a still unpublished yearly report from the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), which says German citizens who openly want a Führerstaat, or dictatorship modeled after Hitler's national socialist government, has increased from 4,200 to 4,400.
Meanwhile the report says the number of citizens with right-wing extremist potential went down 20 percent from 38,600 to 31,000 - a reduction likely due to changes in statistical data gathering. The German Republican party (Die Republikaner) ceased to be considered a right-wing extremist party by the BfV in 2006.
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The paper cited a still unpublished yearly report from the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), which says German citizens who openly want a Führerstaat, or dictatorship modeled after Hitler's national socialist government, has increased from 4,200 to 4,400.
Meanwhile the report says the number of citizens with right-wing extremist potential went down 20 percent from 38,600 to 31,000 - a reduction likely due to changes in statistical data gathering. The German Republican party (Die Republikaner) ceased to be considered a right-wing extremist party by the BfV in 2006.
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