According to German intelligence, these meetings — at which former Nazis speak about their time in the Hitler Youth and Waffen-SS or imprisonment in Soviet POW camps — are growing in popularity within the far right in Germany.
The events, at which the former SS members are treated like heroes, are being used by the far right to publicise their party and recruit new members. Around 60 such meetings were held in Germany in 2018 alone.
The meetings are being sponsored by groups which include the neo-Nazi party, The Third Path, and The Right (Die Rechte) Party. The Third Path was founded in September 2013, by former members of the NPD and activists from the banned Free Network South. The Right (Die Rechte) Party, which was founded in May 2012, chose the imprisoned 90-year-old Holocaust denier Ursula Haverbeck as its top candidate in this year's European elections.
The meetings, which attract hundreds of visitors, are particularly popular in the former East Germany — especially in Chemnitz, a focal point of extreme right wing activity in recent years.
About half a dozen "eyewitnesses" are currently active as speakers. These include 91-year-old Klaus Grotjahn from Bielefeld, once a member of the 11th SS Volunteer Division "Nordland".
Klaus Grotjahn, once a member of the 11th SS Volunteer Division "Nordland"
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Another speaker is 92-year-old Richard Neubrech from Kaiserslautern, who recently spoke about his experiences in the Hitler Youth and his time as a member of the 3rd SS Panzer Division "Totenkopf."
Totenkopf, is German for "death's head", and it is thus sometimes referred to as the Death's Head Division. This was one of the SS divisions which took part in the suppression of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
Another speaker is Herbert Bellschan von Mildenburg from Klagenfurt (Austria), a former SS-Untersturmführer in the Waffen SS. On March 31, 2019, in Dortmund, the 95 year old spoke about his activity in the Hitler Youth and his war service in the 6th SS Mountain Division "Nord".
In November 2018, 96-year-old Karl Münter, a former member of the 12th SS Panzer Division "Hitler Youth", spoke at a meeting in Fretterode (Thuringia).
The 12th SS Panzer Division were an armoured division of the Waffen-SS. The majority of its junior enlisted men were drawn from members of the Hitler Youth, while the senior NCOs and officers were from other Waffen-SS divisions.
Karl Münter, 12th SS Panzer Division "Hitler Youth"
Münter had previously given an interview to the ARD television magazine "Panorama" in which he described the shooting of 86 French prisoners in Ascq, Northern France, in 1944 as legitimate. The shootings were in retaliation for the blowing up of a train, carrying 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend members, as it approached the Gare d'Ascq railway station.At a time when traitor politicians are deliberately destroying Europe by mass third world immigration, these SS veterans who served their country with honour during WWII, and are now in their 90s, are an inspiration to us all.
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