Following the death of Heather Heyer in Charlottesville, the media must find the language to take on the so-called ‘tie Nazi’ as robustly as they would the ‘boot Nazi’ In Germany, following the discovery of a far-right terrorist cell in 2011, an ex-Nazi made the distinction between “_krawattennazis_” (tie Nazis) and “_stiefelnazis_” (boot Nazis), to separate thinkers and thugs. The terror group, Zwickau, turned itself in after a decade of murderous activity undetected by security services. One Greek and eight Turkish immigrants had been killed, along with one policewoman, in a slow and meticulous fascist spree that reads like a script from The Bridge. Alongside this, despite Germany being the country with some of the most advanced anti-fascism legislation in Europe, the far-right National Democratic party (NPD) was thriving, and the Free Forces, a loose collection of far-right groups, some militarised, some discursive, were becoming bolder. Continue reading...
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