Dictator ... Adolf Hitler congratulating a group of German soldiers in Berlin in 1940 / AP
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- Neo-Nazis plotting comeback - defector
- Financial crisis plays into their hands
- Says party has room full of weapons
NEO-NAZIS are using the global financial crisis to stir resentment against immigrants in Germany and recruit new members, a defector says.
Uwe Luthardt, a former senior member of Germany's neo-Nazi National Democratic Party, told Spiegel Online that the neo-Nazi group saw it as an opportune time to try and restore the policies of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich.
During the Nazis' reign in Germany from 1933 to 1945, some six million Jews were killed in death camps alongside hundreds of thousands of gypsies, homosexuals, political opponents and disabled people.
"The simple aim is the restoration of the Reich in which a new stormtrooper organisation takes revenge on anyone who disagrees with them," he said.
He said the NDP headquarters in Jena in eastern Germany had a room full of weapons and was decorated with pictures of the SS.
"'The basic concept the NPD talks about is, "Let's kick out all the foreigners, then the Germans will have jobs again," he said.
"The dream is of the German Reich. They're totally convinced that they'll win an election one day and that things will really get going. Everyone can imagine what would happen then."
German unemployment rose this month as the country was gripped by its worst recession in six decades, and analysts say worse is to come despite another uptick in consumer confidence.
Figures released yesterday by the national labour agency put German unemployment at 8.5 percent of the workforce, with 63,000 more people looking for work than in January, the biggest monthly gain since 2005.
Uwe Luthardt, a former senior member of Germany's neo-Nazi National Democratic Party, told Spiegel Online that the neo-Nazi group saw it as an opportune time to try and restore the policies of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich.
During the Nazis' reign in Germany from 1933 to 1945, some six million Jews were killed in death camps alongside hundreds of thousands of gypsies, homosexuals, political opponents and disabled people.
"The simple aim is the restoration of the Reich in which a new stormtrooper organisation takes revenge on anyone who disagrees with them," he said.
He said the NDP headquarters in Jena in eastern Germany had a room full of weapons and was decorated with pictures of the SS.
"'The basic concept the NPD talks about is, "Let's kick out all the foreigners, then the Germans will have jobs again," he said.
"The dream is of the German Reich. They're totally convinced that they'll win an election one day and that things will really get going. Everyone can imagine what would happen then."
German unemployment rose this month as the country was gripped by its worst recession in six decades, and analysts say worse is to come despite another uptick in consumer confidence.
Figures released yesterday by the national labour agency put German unemployment at 8.5 percent of the workforce, with 63,000 more people looking for work than in January, the biggest monthly gain since 2005.
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