Czech fascist party think-tank connects to extremists in Germany with Czech public funds

The Institute of the SPD is the think-tank for the Okamura movement and describes its activities as involving “establishing international collaborations with similarly-targeted institutions”. However, having Junge Alternative in Saxony as a partner shows that the Okamurites keep repeatedly running into their own pitchforks with these extremist excesses. Those same youth organizers personally accompanied Okamura to the Czech Chamber of Deputies on a visit to Prague recently.

It is no less essential that this would-be operational blindness to the extremism of the SPD’s German “partners” is being paid for by money from the Czech state. Last year the Czech Finance Ministry provided the SPD with CZK 3,725,000 [EUR 150,000] for the work of the “Freedom and Direct Democracy” Institute, for instance.

A great weekend in Ústí nad Labem

When the Junge Alternative from Saxony rented a hall for its weekend trip to Ústí nad Labem in the Czech Republic last year, representatives of the SPD also attended, specifically those from the “Freedom and Direct Democracy” Institute and its Prague cell in particular. We can see members of the leadership of Junge Alternative from Saxony in the group photo of the Czech and German participants.

The man who is third from the right (see the Facebook post below) is strikingly reminiscent of Kurt Hattäsch, today the treasurer of the AfD youth movement in Saxony and one of those arrested in the recent raid. According to German media, he drew a firearm on police officers and ended up in hospital.

For a year and a half now, counterintelligence in Germany has considered the AfD youth organization to be “demonstrably extemist”. Among other reasons, this is because, according to the secret service, the organization belittles the democratic foundations of the state, for example, by engaging in anti-Islam rhetoric and depicting Germans with immigrant roots as second-class citizens.

The branch of Junge Alternative in Saxony is one of the most radical. At one of their events last year, for instance, those attending speculated about setting up ghettos for Jews and migrants.

The ideological train of thought of some sympathizers of this group was captured by an excerpt of an exchange secretly recorded by journalists who were present at that event: “This will require a certain willingness on the part of the German nation to use violence. […] As a state I would look for volunteers who are prepared to shoot even women and children in an emergency.”

“Establishing a state along the Nazi model“

When the scandal came to light this year, the head of the Prague cell of the SPD and of the Okamurites’ think-tank, Josef Nerušil, said he “does not have enough information or knowledge of the matter to comment.” At the same time, he assured the public that “the SPD movement is clearly against extremist forms of advocating its interests, no matter the format”.

Anybody who knows how to use Google can have enough information about the AfD’s Saxon youth organization today, though. Of the eight people suspected of terrorism who were arrested during this most recent raid, some belong to Junge Alternative in Saxony in particular. According to the Federal Prosecutor in Germany, these “Saxon separatists” have been waiting for the collapse of the democratic establishment in Germany and wanted to bear arms to occupy the eastern part of the country “to establish a state there on the Nazi model.”

“Unwanted groups were to be eliminated with the aid of ethnic purges in case of necessity,” the prosecutor summarized the group’s aims.

Three of those arrested are associated with the AfD, the Okamurites’ partner party in Germany. Two are direct activists or functionaires of the AfD youth group in Saxony.

Extremists in the Czech Parliament

It’s a little more than a month since a big delegation from the Junge Alternative in Saxony were the guests of the SPD for a whole weekend in Prague. Their September trip to the Czech Republic included touring the Chamber of Deputies, with Okamura as their personal guide, as news server HlídacíPes.org previously reported. Nerušil, head of the SPD think-tank, was present on that occasion.

“It was a good, motivational meeting. We agreed that in the weeks, months and years to come we want to deepen and expand our collaboration,” Lennard Scharpe, who is a member of the leadership of the Junge Alternative in Saxony, assessed the trip to Prague on Facebook.

Instead, the German police executed their raid, providing yet more confirmation – and how many confirmations have there been by now? – that the SPD is indeed collaborating with an extremist organization in Germany that rejects the democratic order, is militant, and is close to neo-Nazism.

In May this year the SPD had to distance itself (albeit unwillingly) from the AfD ahead of elections to the European Parliament because of statements by the AfD’s lead candidate, Maximilian Krah, making light of the crimes committed by SS units during the Second World War. In the interim, however, both parties are again collaborating in the European Parliament, and the obvious extremism of its German youth partner is something the SPD is doing its best to cover up with silence, as usual.