Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1996 03:48:11 +0200
From: Jorn Andersen <ccc6639-AT-vip.cybercity.dk>
To: marxism-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
Subject: Re: Nazi,s find haven in Sweden!


Robert Malecki wrote:

> The Nazi,s in Europe have found a haven here in Sweden. Here they can freely
> produce cd,s, books, newspapers and nazi symbols which is forbidden in many
> European countries today.
> 
> The above is true and the Nazi,s in Europe are using Sweden as a base to
> produce their material.

Jorn:
The same goes on in Denmark - in the name of free speech
(which the same governments have no trouble violating as
soon as it comes to public service workers).

It has been well known for years that a lot of nazi "lit-
terature" was published and distributed from Denmark. A few
weeks ago a former German nazi leader told that also explosives,
ammunition etc. was sent to German nazis via Denmark.

But there is a good story to finish with: An old nazi
of the old guard (former SS etc.) was trying to establish
a new "head quarter" for the production and distribution
of nazi material in a small town in southern Denmark a year
and a half ago.

But the people of the small town didn't want to have
nazis in their town, and after some big demonstartions
they got kicked out.

The same thing happened half a year ago when danish
nazis with international supporters tried to march
on Hitlers birthday (or was it Hess' death day - can't
always distinguish the bastards). They tried to do this
in a fairly large town near Copenhagen - but got kicked
out (some of them wounded badly) by local citizens.

The more bizarre element however is how the media and
the big political parties behaved.

In the first case they did nothing until the local
mobilization and the demonstrations got quite big.
Then they talked about how it was necessary to outlaw
nazi activity. But after the victory and when mobili-
zation was over they made all sorts of academics and
intellectuals say that we shouldn't make martyrs out
of the nazis, that free speech is for all etc. etc.
Outlawing is now completely forgotten. (Not that I
believe it will help much - it hasn't in Germany -
but it shows how bourgeois and even labour parties
don't give a damn even when nazis threaten bourgeois
democracy).

In the second case the mayor of the town (Social-
Democratic!) said that "his" citizens should show
their contempt by staying in their houses when the
nazis marched. Luckily they didn't!

Nazi threat in Denmark is not very big. But I think
we should remember Hitler's words, I think from 1938:
"If they had taken us when we were small, we wouldn't
have had a chance" (out of my head).

Free speech for all means no free speech for nazis.


Yours
 
Jorn Andersen

IS
Denmark




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