Germany cracks down on neo-Nazi sect Artgemeinschaft for targeting children

Far-right sect Artgemeinschaft has been banned in Germany for spreading Nazi ideology to children and young people. 

The group have been called “deeply racist and antisemitic” and the country’s interior minister said the group was trying “to raise new enemies of the constitution”.

Artgemeinschaft used Nazi-era literature and cultural events to spread its ideology. Police have raided dozens of homes and offices across the country which have been linked to the group. 

“This is another hard blow against right-wing extremism and against the intellectual arsonists who continue to spread Nazi ideologies to this day,” German interior minister Nancy Faeser said.

Faeser said that some of the group’s roughly 150 members, had been given instructions about picking partners with a North or Central European background, in line with their ideology of “racial preservation”.

The group also ran an online bookstore and regularly held cultural events that attracted up to several hundred people. It described itself as “Germany’s biggest pagan community”.

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