German-Jewish leaders argue over banning neo-Nazi party

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German-Jewish leaders argue over banning neo-Nazi party

Central Council president says NPD should have been outlawed years ago, but organization’s secretary general insists such efforts are futile

Germany’s Jews are disagreeing about whether the country’s largest neo-Nazi party should be banned.

The president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany says the organization’s official position has for many years been consistent in calling for authorities to initiate legal proceedings to outlaw the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD), which is said to follow in the ideological footsteps of Hitler’s Nazi party. Yet the organization’s secretary-general, Stephan J. Kramer, caused a stir last week when he said that he was decidedly against such a step.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/german-...eo-nazi-party/

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Germany halts subsidies to neo-Nazi party NPD

Germany's lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, said Saturday it had halted public subsidies to the neo-Nazi party NPD over an unpaid fine.

"The payments were stopped," a parliamentary spokesman was quoted as saying by the online version of Der Spiegel newspaper, meaning the far-right party will not receive the 113,000-euro ($149,000) sum for the year 2012.

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/n...nazi-party-npd