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Senior Australia First figures have been organising openly neo-nazi gigs.

This sordid tale basically deals with the recent activities of Blood & Honour NSW. They held a gig at Newcastle’s Hamilton Hotel on Saturday the 25th of February. As you’ll see below, we knew about this event weeks before it happened. It was alluded to a wee bit in Dan Box’s recent article in the Aus.

First let’s take a squizz at how B&H are going in Germany.

From Reuters (hehe… reuters) :

Police raid suspected neo-Nazi haunts

08.03.06 10.20am

BERLIN - Police raided more than 100 buildings across Germany today in a hunt for suspected members of the banned neo-Nazi group “Blood & Honour”.

In raids in Bavaria, they seized a hand grenade and a 7.65mm calibre pistol, police said. The 32-year-old owner of the live hand grenade said he had bought it “for decoration”.

Bavarian police also seized Blood & Honour memorabilia including 140 t-shirts, more than 30 CDs, numerous magazines, posters, video films, key chains, baseball caps, four PCs and eight mobile phones.

The memorabilia, which the police said could “spread National Socialist (Nazi) and racist ideologies”, is being evaluated by the police.

All Nazi and neo-Nazi regalia and insignia are banned in Germany. Neo-Nazi groups are small but watched carefully by security services.

Simultaneous raids in seven of Germany’s 16 states took place at 6.00am local time (6.00pm Tuesday NZT), the police said in a statement. Of the 119 premises searched, 37 were in Bavaria.

Six German states are investigating suspected members of “Blood & Honour Division Deutschland”, which has been banned in Germany since 2000 along with its youth wing “White Youth”.

The statement did not say if anyone was arrested, but that some 37 suspected Bavarian neo-Nazis were being investigated.

Blood & Honour was founded in 1987 by the British lead singer of the skinhead band Skrewdriver Ian Stuart Donaldson.

Now check this report from last week’s Australian Jewish News:

Newcastle gig recruited neo-Nazis
3/3/06

NAZI watchdog Mat Henderson-Hau has warned that a Blood and Honour concert held last weekend in Newcastle was likely to have been used as a recruiting event for local neo-Nazis.

“This was not just a concert. Blood and Honour packages its events as a very effective tool for recruitment” said Henderson-Hau, who operates the anti-Nazi website fightdemback.org.

Blood and Honour is an international neo-Nazi group that promotes local skinhead bands, organises concerts, spearheads political campaigns and is ultimately a magnet for white supremacists, according to Henderson-Hau.

“In the wake of the Cronulla riots the group is trying to kick-start their activities in NSW, using Newcastle as a launch-pad,” he said.

Henderson-Hau was disappointed that the police had not shut down the event because it “set a dangerous precedent arid further emboldened the cause of Blood and Honour.”

Newcastle Hebrew Congregation was vandalised in April last year with spray-painted swastikas and slogans such as “Jews must die.”

Local police made regular patrols of the synagogue last weekend but Sergent Gerard Lawson said: “We didn’t close [the concert] down because they weren’t breaking the law.”

Shul president David Gubbay said he was happy with the police response, although he added: “It makes me feel very uncomfortable [that such events are being staged in Newcastle].”

That’s strange, eh… Just after a neo-nazi gig in Newcastle, all those Patriotic Youth League fliers turned up…

Well, it’s no wonder when you look at the “thankyou list” for people who helped out with the gig.

Have a squiz:

Blood Honour NSW
to apollyon_18, dastin, zarathustra187, ausunite …
From: Blood Honour NSW Mailed-By: hotmail.com
To: apollyon_18@hotmail.com, dastin@bigpond.net.au, zarathustra187@hotmail.com, ausunite@hotmail.com, deutsch_61@hotmail.com, barneyrubble_skin@hotmail.com, Skinhead_battalion88@hotmail.com, Avohatedandproud@hotmail.com, mjh_14_88@hotmail.com, herfurth@iinet.net.au, aussieskin@hotmail.com, kennedy_manman@hotmail.com, hagalaz@internode.on.net, theblangster@gmail.com, Zogh8r@hotmail.com, white_jn@hotmail.com, spencerkaiden@gmail.com, jadebelinda666@yahoo.com.au, conservative@optusnet.com.au, ss_Queensland_ss@yahoo.com, cmullins@aapt.net.au, bloodhonourwa@hotmail.com, bloodhonoursa@hotmail.com, mcowens@hotmail.com, bloodhonourvic@hotmail.com, BloodHonourNsw@hotmail.com

Date: Feb 27, 2006 10:25 AM
Subject: BH NSW SHOW 25th FEB

thanks to everyone who made the effort to support us and their local scene
on the saturday night just passed (25th feb). Those who have complained
about the lack of a local scene and put their money where their mouth is and
made the effort to turn up - you people are the reason we want to put these
shows on. to quote ian stuart - you are the diamond in the dust!

The funds raised from this show will go back into the local scene in the
form of future events and equipment purchase to reduce the operating costs
of BHNSW and therefore increase the ability to throw bigger and better
events.

special thanks goes out to Welf, Mark, Christian, James.n, steve and jeff
who all pitsched in and helped out in a massive way and without this help
there would be no gig to attend. actions speak louder than words.

BHNSW and Blood Red Eagle both thank everyone who attend for their support
and we hope to see you all back at the next event.

828.
BH NSW CORE TEAM.

That’s senior Australia First organiser Welf Herfurth on the far right, at the 2005 Sydney Forum.

Before jumping on the Australia First steam train, Welf was the president of the Riverstone (NSW) branch of the One Nation Party. Some years prior to that, he was an executive member of the German neo-nazi National Democratic Party. He also (of course!) has addressed the Holocaust-denying Australian League of Rights on a number of occasions.

It’s good to see Australia First is giving up the pretence of being anything other than neo-nazi scum. We’re big fans of honesty in politics here at FDB.

Also of note is the band which played at this event, Blood Red Eagle, whom the Patriotic Youth League advertised extensively on their website before it was deleted by it’s host for containing racist material.