BERLIN (AP) — The German government on Wednesday banned a far-right, racist group known for its indoctrination of children as police raided dozens of homes of its members and other buildings early in the morning.
Under the cover of a pseudo-religious Germanic belief in gods, the Artgemeinschaft spread its Nazi world view, the ministry said.
“The group’s central goal was the preservation and promotion of one’s own ‘kind,’ which can be equated with the National Socialist term ‘race’,” according to the statement.
The group gave its members instructions on how to choose a “proper spouse” within the Northern and Central European “human kind” in order to pass on the “correct” genetic makeup according to the association’s racist ideology.
In early morning raids across 12 states, police searched 26 apartments of 39 group members as well as the organization’s club houses.
Last week, the German government banned the neo-Nazi group Hammerskins Germany and raided homes of dozens of its members.
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I don't know if anyone here ever had a taste for sci-fi gun porn, but the first person to introduce me to the idea of Germanic neo-paganism was a fellow named John Ringo, pulp fiction writer.
You've actually seen his effects on the world, he's often credited with coining the phrase "Go Woke Go Broke."
Anyways, he's literally a Nazi pretending to be American libertarian. Once you get clued in to the dogwhistles they're just... just fuckin everywhere.
Rape fetish, sexualization of minors, blatant racism, thinly veiled Wehraboo shit, he had aliens genocide everyone not white at one point while also making blonde women go into heats, like you do not understand, this is just the surface. He practically dedicated one book to explaining how "machismo culture" is why Hispanics will never amount to anything, this is not a joke.
Anyways, any one ever tells you they're Asartu, they're either the dumbest person on the planet or a Nazi, there are no exceptions. There simply is no value to Norse neo-paganism because the original sucked fucking ass too.
Not getting into its explicit endorsement of chattel slavery and might makes right rules of conquest, or even the human sacrifice, the only credible source we have of a "Viking funeral," witnessed and recorded by an Arabic traveler, recounts the gang rape and murder of a slave woman as part of the ritual, and ends with a naked, presumably expendable Kievan Rus man running from the pyre covering his ass so spirits don't get in it.
The Germanic religion is historically interesting, had a great myth cycle, one of my favorite versions of a "zombie," and has some interesting tenets regarding things like a hereditary matriarchal spirit passed to all descendants, even the men, but it still belongs in the past, dead. There is no value in its resurrection for anyone not a Nazi.
Go be a druid or a witch or something, damn, at least when they make shit up about dead religions with no actual surviving belief structure it's not always a cover for white supremacy.
Anyways, any one ever tells you they’re Asartu, they’re either the dumbest person on the planet or a Nazi, there are no exceptions.
I mean over here you can't have a blot without splattering blood on ten Antifas but ok bud.
Not getting into its explicit endorsement of chattel slavery and might makes right rules of conquest,
...par for the course for its historical context. I could now go on and talk about the Frankish genocide against the Saxons in the name of Christ but let's just agree that it's currentyear , ok?
or even the human sacrifice,
Sacrificial rites differed a lot between regions. While Swedes probably did sacrifice humans (presumably volunteers) at the same time Icelanders were putting out a pot of porridge.
the only credible source we have of a “Viking funeral,” witnessed and recorded by an Arabic traveler, recounts the gang rape and murder of a slave woman as part of the ritual, and ends with a naked, presumably expendable Kievan Rus man running from the pyre covering his ass so spirits don’t get in it.
Yes because Muslim accounts of pagans are always 110% accurate. Noone back then ever embellished anything, or made stuff up. Also wtf has that to do with anything current.
Go be a druid or a witch or something, damn, at least when they make shit up about dead religions with no actual surviving belief structure
Now if no mythology about the Aesir was left you would have a point. Go read the Edda.
it’s not always a cover for white supremacy.
"always"? Maybe where you are. Like about the worst you can say about the Ásatrúarfélagið without putting your foot in your mouth that they once were quite conservative and e.g. opposed abortion.
Also those are very, very literally Nazis. The whole thing is a continuation of the esoteric wing of the SS with plenty of connections to right-wing terrorism.
What does it even change if they still have a huge party to represent their nazi interests?
Banning a 150 person group is as big of a change as the nurmberg trials.
What I think is happening is that the government is cracking down on all kinds of smaller groups in anticipation for the big blow so that Nazis don't have an organisational base to fall back on. Much easier to behead a hydra when you kill the body first.
And while 150 people doesn't sound like much in this specific case that's only the adults, not the children getting indoctrinated, and it's also a very old (1951) group functioning as a corner stone of the wider scene. Frankly banning them was overdue but you can never rely on CDU and FDP to actually care.