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Far-right Compact Magazine Banned

Today, the interior minister of Germany banned the far-right Compact Magazine in an unusual step.
Edited by former leftist Jürgen Elsässer and employing a clever multi-media strategy, it had become the most popular of an array of far-right publications seeking an “overthrow of the regime”.

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2016ArticlesDatacide 15

Datacide 15 News: Neo-Nazis, the National Socialist Underground and the State

In datacide twelve, we detailed the scandal surrounding the killing spree of the Neo-Nazi terrorist organisation National Socialist Underground in Germany and the involvement of the domestic state security agency Verfassungsschutz (VS). This was followed by an update in datacide thirteen. This is a second update looking at the court case and the work of parliamentary fact-finding commissions.

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