Passengers Assaulted
These are among the more dramatic events that have been
reported with shock and horror, but numerous other acts of
violence have occured and - at a lesser pace - continue to
take place to this day: assaults on individuals, brawls in
youth centers, attacks on homes and businesses. For example,
in October 1994, a gang of some 20 Skinheads boarded a
streetcar in Berlin and severely assaulted passengers they
believed were foreigners. The following months, police in
Hanau, near Frankfurt, broke up a Skinhead gang of 20 who were
suspected of attacking goreigners, a handicapped person and a
former synagogye. Seized by police in their raid on the gang
were guns, ammunition and banned Nazi propaganda. Two of those
arrested were suspected of manufacturing homemade bombs. The
gang had links to banned neo-Nazi organizations including the
Viking Youth.
According to the Federal Office for the Protection of the
Consitution (Bundesamt fuer Verfassungsschutz), the number of
violent right-wing extremists in 1993 was about 5,600, many of
them Skinheads. This was a decline from the 1992 estimate of
of 6,400. In 1993, Skinheads also constituted a large
proportion of those who perpetrated 2,232 acts of right-wing
violence, including seven homocides and 20 attempted
homocides. The comparable 1992 figures were 2,639 violent acts
and 18 homocides. The numbers, while showing some improvement,
are still shockingly high.
Work Cited
Anti-Defamation League. The Skinhead International: A Worldwide
Survey of Neo-Nazi Skinheads. New York: Anti-Defamation League,
1995. Anti-Defamation League, 823 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY
10017.
Disclaimer: not all skinheads are neo-nazis or white
supremacists. There are many skinheads who are non- or anti-racist, and
who come from a variety of different religious and cultural backgrounds.
Nizkor recognizes their achievements in anti-racism: they are part of
the traditional, non-racist skinhead subculture and are not the
perpetrators of the hate crimes discussed here.
Unless otherwise specified, the word "skinhead" within these pages
refers only to neo-Nazi and white supremacist skinheads, the
perpetrators of hate crimes and participants in racist organizations.
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