How close did you get to them? Did you talk to them? Eeeee, my skin is crawling. "Eugenik" indeed.
 

I had to talk to them, but it took a while; I wasn't feeling too social. Some people flat-out ignored me -- I was a stranger. Another (famous, German) journalist turned up with a digicam and was hounded out of the park.
 

Sorry if this comes across as more bitchy than its meant BUT:

"The NPD puts on a conservative, nonracist public face."

Surely that is BS. Neither Conservative or conservative! Or how do you mean that?

And if youre going to "quote" Liebermann then give old Max a mention!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Liebermann

If it was just a case of great minds thinking alike then youll be pleased to know that he is buried in Berlin not too far from you so you can give him a visit!

Greetings

Doughnut Boy
 

I mean conservative in the sense of not-radical. Udo Voigt wears a suit and tie; when he talks to the press he tries to seem all reassuring: "Heavens no, we're not racists. We just think foreigners should get out of the public welfare system." But there was Voigt on Saturday, chumming it up with skinheads.

I'd forgotten the Liebermann quote -- "One cannot eat as much as one would like to vomit." Where's he buried?
 

Well thats very misleading to describe everyone with a suit as a conservative :-)Its true that the NPD is limited in what it can say by certain laws (and the leadership likes to push this perhaps because Mahler is a top lawyer who probably gets the cash for defending the party) but national socialism, although it may have very traditional ideas of the family and sexuality is not conservative big or little c. Check out the NPDs main page and there will be anti-Hartz 4 pics and talk of soziale Gerechtigkeit no doubt, certainly thats how they have been presenting themselves recently. Essentially national socialism is an idea of Völkisch socialism that views the world as different races and cultures, all of which are under threat from an "international" conspiracy to destroy and control them. Their only chance is to look after their own and their nation and race and to try to destroy those who try to weaken or destroy them. Its not really possible for the rational to understand it I guess so thats as far as i can "rationally" explain it.

As for Uncle Max, he now reside in the Jewish cemetery on Schönhauser Allee with a few of his family. Whether popping in to give him a hello or not the place is an amazing visit, just as the one in White Lake City to the north in Baum Strasse.
 

I could have said the NPD puts on a "liberal" face, too -- it amounts to the same thing -- but, you know, Nazis love to bash liberals.

What I learned in school was that the far left and the far right meet at their extremes, under totalitarianism. The NPD is so far to the right they mix in left-radical ideas, the way Hitler did, to win votes. Not because they truly are socialists. In fact, these days they avoid "socialism." It's much better to call yourself a democrat and throw in some anti-globalism. Which means the NPD doesn't only steal rhetoric from the left: You should have heard Udo Voigt go on about democracy and freedom. He sounded downright Conservative. :-)