Blood and Honour Gig 28th Jan, London

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BELGIUM
Raids across five army barracks and private houses netted Belgian police 17 fascists, including the ring leader, a serving soldier, who was a member of the Blood & Honour Flanders group. The raids, in Antwerp, Limburg and east Flanders, recovered weapons and an improvised explosive device. The group is said to have targeted soldiers for recruitment.[1] In April 2007, Serbian Blood & Honour leader Dragan Perovic, resident in the Czech republic, was reported to be raising money for the detained Belgians.[2]

In November 2008 two Dutch man – one a Hitler lookalike – were fined for a Nazi tribute at a German war cemetery in Flanders. They were both fined €1,000. Besides the Nazi tribute, the pair also fomented discrimination and racial hatred aimed at asylum seekers, Turks, Moroccans and homosexuals.[3]




CROATIA
The creation of a Croation Blood & Honour division in Pula was announced in April 2005. According to a report supplied by BBC Monitoring Worldwide, ‘They have taken the slogan of Hitler's elite SS units, by which they want to show that they share the same values such as hatred towards Jews, Serbs, Africans, Roma, the fight against communism and destroying democracy, however, they say that due to concerns for their own security they will not operate publicly’.[4]

CZECH REPUBLIC
As early as 1996 700 fascist skinheads from the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Germany met in Prague at a concert staged by Blood & Honour. Shouts of ‘Sieg heil’ were heard coming from the restaurant.[5] CTK reported a year later that a range of fascist skinhead organisations were working on plans to seize power in a coup.[6] Throughout the late 1990s and into the new century Czech Blood & Honour members, along with their counterparts in other fascist organisations, caused significant difficulties for the authorities, who pursued them for the offence of promoting fascism, among other crimes.[7] Due to legal constraints the Czech government were unable to ban the organization as Blood & Honour in the Czech republic were not a registered Czech civic association.[8]

Concerts continued to be held in obscure places in the Czech republic, such as the village of Kolesovice, which was the site of a large gig attended by about 1,000 fascist skinheads in February 2001.[9] Around this time the Czech police ‘crippled’ Blood & Honour, which undertook no activity of note until July 2004, when Czech television reported renewed activity; its strength was said to be about 100.[10] In March 2005, when Blood & Honour put on a large concert in Jablonne, ‘hundreds of neo-Nazis’ were reported to have attended, to see bands from from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany and the USA.[11] Another concert, in Krtetice, south Bohemia, attracted 500 fascists; police were criticised by the Tolerance and Civic Society association for allowing the event to go ahead despite the chanting of racist slogans and shouts of ‘Sieg heil’. It seems that this concert was probably to attract people who had not yet sided with Combat 18, which in some parts of Europe is seen as the armed wing of Blood & Honour.[12]

In May 2008 the FBI, strangely at the behest of British police, blocked the Czech Blood & Honour website; according to the Czech News Agency, Blood & Honour is on the US list of terrorist organisations.[13] However, the next day it was reported to be working again.[14]




FRANCE
Maxime Brunnerie, who tried to assassinate French President Jacques Chirac in July 2002 chose to leave a message on a Blood & Honour website controlled by C18.




[1] ‘Belgium arrests alleged neo-Nazi soldiers’, UPI, 8 September 2006

[2] ‘Serb in Prague collects money for Belgian extremists – press’, CTK National News Wire, 18 April 2007

[3] ‘Dutch Hitler lookalike fined in Belgium for Nazi grave tribute’, Agence France Presse, 20 November 2008

[4] ‘International pro-Nazi movement extends to northern Croatian town – paper’, BBC Monitoring Worldwide, 29 April 2005

[5] ‘Neo-Nazis from Europe meet in Czech republic’, CTK News Agency, 11 November 1996

[6] ‘Skinheads dream of taking power – Lidove Noviny’, CTK National News Wire, 11 November 1997

[7] For example, ‘Police gain evidence of organised promotion of fascism – press’, CTK National News Wire, 23 February 1999

[8] ‘Ministry unable to ban neo-Nazi group outlawed in Germany’, CTK News Agency, 14 September 2000

[9] Report on Czech TV1, Prague, 1815 GMT, 18 February 2001

[10] ‘Blood & Honour resumes activity in Czech Republic’, Czech News Agency, 23 July 2004

[11] ‘Police do not intervene against neo-Nazis in Jablonne’, Czech News Agency, 27 March 2005

[12] ‘Police should have ended neo-Nazi concert in Krtetice – activists’, Czech News Agency, 18 September 2005

[13] ‘FBI block Czech extremist website – press’, Czech News Agency, 28 May 2008

[14] ‘Access to Czech Blood & Honour website open – press’, Czech News Agency, 29 May 2008

 

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GERMANY
Blood & Honour’s German branch received increasing attention from the German government in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Incidents such as the murder of three Turks in Molln in 1992 had shown the German fascism had not been eradicated, and as the decade progressed concern about right wing extremists deepened. A report in August 2000 stated that ‘the homeless as well as Asians and Africans have to be careful in certain German regions, especially in some areas around Berlin, where extremists have created what they call “national liberated territories”’.[1] The following month Germany proscribed Blood & Honour because it used music, magazines and the internet to disseminate racist national socialist views.[2] Shortly afterwards a riot occurred when police broke up a Blood & Honour concert in Lueneberg – 46 police officers were injured and 32 fascists arrested.[3] Despite the ban, a report in July 2001 declared that the far-right was thriving.[4] Evidence of the continuing existence of Blood & Honour, and its health, was provided by a series of raids across Germany in April 2002, when German police raided 43 locations in seven states in a crackdown on the group. Items seized included semi-automatic weapons, revolvers and parts of machine guns.[5] Further raids on Blood & Honour supporters took place in March 2006; as well as CDs, clothing and other merchandise, police seized a pistol and a hand grenade.[6] More than a hundred buildings were raided across seven of Germany’s sixteen states.[7] At the end of 2008 Blood & Honour were reported to be active again in Thuringia.[8]

GREECE
The appearance of Blood & Honour in Greece was reported in September 2004, when the organisation expressed vicious anti-Turkish views.[9] This was in the context of an upcoming football match between Greece and Turkey.

HUNGARY
An attempt to establish a Blood & Honour branch in Hungary in 2001 only succeeded by subterfuge, according to a report from the Hungarian News Agency in January 2003. It reports the Parliamentary State Secretary responsible for the civilian security services, Andras Toth, as declaring no organisation of that kind should be legally allowed to operate in Hungary.[10] It seems that the 1947 Paris Peace Treaty in force bans the functioning of groups like Blood & Honour in Hungary, and according to Toth Blood & Honour would also be illegal under EU rules.[11] In February the same year the Budapest Attorney General’s Office asked the Budapest Municipal Court to delete the registration of Blood & Honour, effectively banning it.[12] While this was going on, Blood & Honour held a demonstration in Budapest to commemorate the German and Hungarian soldiers who tried to break through the lines of Soviet soldiers besieging the city in 1945; a simultaneous counter-demonstration by the Federation of Jewish Communities occurred. Both demonstrations passed off peacefully.[13]

In April 2004 Jaroslav Broz, described as a leader of (fascist) skinheads in west Bohemia, was sentenced to five years in prison for supporting Nazism, fascism and racism: he appears to have been involved with Blood & Honour in the Czech republic.[14] According to the verdict, Broz and others organised and distributed magazines, patches and recordings of music inciting racism and fascism.

A court of first instance ruling at the start of December 2004 dissolved Blood & Honour as a cultural association, against which Blood & Honour appealed.[15] Nonetheless, in February 2005 Blood & Honour members in Budapest ‘lined up racist slogans and neo-Nazi paraphernalia’ during a demonstration to commemorate German and Hungarian attempts to break out of the city in 1945.[16] In 2005 Blood & Honour took part in a demonstration outside the German embassy in support of Ernst Zundel and other fascists jailed in Germany for holocaust denial.[17] When Blood & Honour’s appeal was heard, in October 2005, the appeal court upheld the lower court’s decision, disbanding the organisation.[18]

ITALY
By 2001 Blood & Honour had been proscribed in Italy, described as ‘an international neo-Nazi group’ – Italian law forbids organizations that promote racial, ethnic and religious discrimination.[19]




[1] Torsten Krauel, ‘Mainstream parties are taking up the challenge’, in The Scotsman, 10 August 2000, p. 9

[2] Imre Karacs, ‘Skinhead group is banned in neo-Nazi crackdown’, in The Independent, 15 September 2000, p. 16

[3] ‘Police break up riot at neo-Nazi concert’, in The Record (Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario), 25 September 2000, p. A06

[4] Hannah Cleaver, ‘Far right on rise in Germany’, in The Daily Telegraph, 30 July 2001, p. 12

[5] ‘German police raid neo-Nazis, seize weapons and propaganda materials’, Associated Press, 25 April 2002

[6] ‘German raids target far-right group’, Associated Press Online, 7 March 2006

[7] ‘To the point’, in Investor’s Business Daily, 8 March 2006, p. A02

[8] ‘Banned neo-Nazi organization said to be active again’, DDP News Agency, 19 December 2008

[9] ‘Greek neo-fascists use soccer matches to incite hatred – paper’, in To Vima, 8 September 2004, p. A17

[10] ‘Neo-Nazi youth meeting organised by “public-benefit” association’, Hungarian News Agency (MTI), 2 January 2003

[11] ‘Secret service official pledges to ban neo-Nazi meetings in Hungary’, BBC Summary of World Broadcasts, 2 January 2003

[12] ‘Budapest attorney general calls for banning “Blood & Honour”’, Hungarian News Agency (MTI), 6 February 2003

[13] ‘Jewish Federation, Blood & Honour demonstrate in capital’, Hungarian News Agency (MTI), 15 February 2003

[14] ‘Head of west Bohemian skinheads sentenced to prison for Nazism’, CTK National News Wire, 14 April 2004

[15] ‘Court dissolves fascist organisation’, Hungarian News Agency (MTI), 1 December 2004

[16] ‘Hungarians stand divided over WWII battle’, Hungarian News Agency (MTI), 12 February 2005

[17] ‘Far-right protesters petition for German holocaust revisionist’, Hungarian News Agency (MTI), 16 April 2005

[18] ‘Court of appeal disbands radical organisation’, Hungarian News Agncy (MTI), 27 October 2005

[19] ‘Italians arrest 12 suspected right-wing extremists in operation with Austria’, Associated Press, 20 February 2001

 

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POLAND
Polish prosecutors opened an investigation into the website of Blood & Honour in February 2006, focussing on an internet database containing the names of alleged homosexuals, Jews and left-wingers. The organisation was appealing for further information on those listed. Investigators were looking at whether data protection laws had been broken, and whether the website sought to incite violence and promote fascism.[1] In May of the same year, Polish authorities sought the help of the US government to shut down a server hosting the site; following the publication of the lists earlier in the year one of the people named had been stabbed and nearly killed.[2] The Polish authorities asked for help as the server was in the United States. Police raids in June 2006 saw the arrests of two men thought to administrate the site.[3] The website was closed down in July 2006, following collaboration between the FBI and Polish police and its suspected administrator charged with ‘propagating totalitarian state systems, inciting hatred and violence toward people of different sexual orientation, political or religious convictions’.[4] Technology Daily noted that the website had been linked to attacks on human rights activists and journalists.[5] However, Polish radio reported a week later that the website was back up again.[6] The Polish authorities were still having trouble with the website in April 2008.[7] A police operation in June 2007 in the central Polish town of Bialobrzegi saw a man with Blood & Honour connections arrested; material recovered included information about bomb making.[8]

RUSSIA
Further east, Russian fascists – of whom the Russian branch of Blood & Honour was a significant part – were responsible for a series of vicious racist assaults and murders in the late 1990s.[9] A report in 2001 highlighted continuing fascist violence in Russia under the heading ‘The pogroms have already started’. This noted the involvement of Blood & Honour, along with other fascists, in a series of vicious racist assaults and murders, and described the group as having ‘discipline, hierarchy, and labor division’.[10]

SERBIA
Blood & Honour were first active in Serbia in 1995.[11] The provincial parliament of Vojvodina called, in December 2005, for the Belgrade parliament, which has responsibility for security policy, to ban all neo-Nazi, racist, and clerico-fascist groups and organizations on Serbian territory. They included Blood & Honour in their resolution.[12] In October 2008, a message posted on a website controlled by Blood & Honour called for the murder of Serb interior minister Ivica Danic.[13]

SLOVAKIA
Slovak police charged two Hungarians with promoting fascism in June 2006 after they were arrested at the Slovak/Hungarian border wearing badges and stickers inscribed ‘Blut und ehre’ (Blood & Honour).[14]

SLOVENIA
In September 2005, a BBC Monitoring International Report said that the Slovene human rights ombudsman, Matjaz Hanzek, was investigating hate speech on the Slovene Blood & Honour website.[15]

SPAIN
Spanish police cracked down on Blood & Honour in April 2005. 21 people were arrested for crimes against civil liberties, defending the Holocaust, illegal association, and possessing and trafficking arms. Police seized two guns, knives, swords as well as an array of Nazi paraphernalia in raids on the suspects' homes and the group's meeting places in Madrid, Seville, Jaen, Burgos and Zaragoza. The Spanish group was accused of organizing concerts at which they would incite xenophobia, racism, anti-Semitism and the use of violence.[16] Twenty more people were arrested in the province of Valencia in September of the same year.[17]

UKRAINE
The Ukrainian newspaper Stolichnyye Novosti reported in November 2005 that Blood & Honour were the largest fascist organisation in the country, several hundred members and branches in Kiev, Kharkiv, Lviv and Mykolayiv.[18]



[1] ‘Poland probes neo-Nazi lists of gays, Jews, left-wingers’, Agence France Presse, 2 February 2006

[2] ‘Poland asks the US to help it shut down web site run by far-right group’, Associated Press Worldstream, 28 May 2006

[3] ‘Polish police arrest man suspected of co-authoring a far-right web site’, Associated Press Worldstream, 5 June 2006

[4] ‘Polish police shut down neo-Nazi web site, charge suspected administrator’, Associated Press Worldstream, 6 July 2006

[5] ‘US-based site encouraged blacklisting’, in Technology Daily 10(9), 6 July 2006

[6] Polish Radio 1, 1600 GMT, 13 July 2006

[7] ‘Prosecution to check neo-Nazi threats against Kosovo police’, PAP News Wire, 16 April 2008

[8] ‘Polish police seize neo-Nazi bomb attack guides’, Agence France Presse, 1 June 2007

[9] Arsen Rstaki, ‘Russian fascism: who needs it?’, in Novaya Gazeta 19 (18 May 1998), pp. 1, 10-11

[10] Alexander Tarasov, ‘The pogroms have already started’, in Obshchaya Gazeta, 2 April 2001, p. 15

[11]Vuk Z. Cvijic , ‘Neo-Nazis Threatening Dacic With Murder’, Blic website, 17 October 2008

[12] ‘Vojvodina assembly urges ban on far-right groups’, Beta News Agency, 20 December 2005

[13]Vuk Z. Cvijic , ‘Neo-Nazis Threatening Dacic With Murder’, Blic website, 17 October 2008

[14] ‘Slovak police accuse two Hungarians of promoting fascism’, Czech News Agency, 15 June 2006

[15] ‘”Hate speech” on two Slovene websites’, BBC Monitoring International Report, 30 September 2005

[16] ‘Spanish police arrest 21 in five-city crackdown on neo-Nazi group’, Associated Press Worldstream, 26 April 2005

[17] ‘Spanish police arrest 20 in crackdown on neo-Nazi group’, AP Worldstream, 17 September 2005

[18]Serhiy Klyuyev, ‘Skinheads are coming’, in Stolichnyye Novosti, 1 November 2005

 

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What happens at a Blood & Honour gig
An interesting and revealing gig report appears on one Blood & Honour website, which is worth considering at length.
B & H Kent Fund Raiser Gig
4th October 2008 ~ England
This was only my third Blood & Honour concert that I had the priviledge to attend. It was billed as a fundraiser and I still had my head filled with the beautiful music and comradeship of the Ian Stuart Donaldson Memorial from a couple of weekend before. I was told this evenings concert was primarily to raise some much needed funds for forthcoming B & H and BM [British Movement] projects. We had a quick and easy drive to a meeting point. From here we were then re-directed onto the venue of the concert. This was also quite easy and was found with no difficulty. Apparently this process is tried and tested and in combination with other security tactics helps keep away those agents of the state that would happily see our patriotic voices stiffled. Every other drug infested, queer loving, multi-racial organisation can openly hold their gatherings and despite frequent crowd trouble, drunkeness and anti-social behaviour they never get visited by the police. Yet we have to act like we are wrong doers, when all we wish to do is tell people the truth. The truth about our society, the truth about crime, the truth about our government etc etc. So ask yourself why? Why can terrorists openly preach religious hatred and we are persecuted for telling the people the truth and promoting our love for our race and ancestry...
Being new to B & H I didnt recognise that many people inside the venue. But that said, I was warmly greeted by many people and made some new friends. We all share the same ideas, believes and aims. This unites us all like nothing else. I have never felt or seen this feeling of comradeship and true brotherhood anywhere else. Maybe watching the national football team play alongside fellow supporters. But being part of B & H is a little different as it is not a hobby, or sports or social club. It is a whole outlook, ideology, way of thinking and doing all rolled into one.
There was a few tables selling literature from the few groups in attendance. This was good to see, as sometimes too many people rely on the internet and unfortunately believe all the rubbish that is written there. So I do like to have a good and fully referenced book or two to own. After some more chat with people about where they had travelled from. It was impressive to hear about the dedication many B & H supporters have in attending such events from across the nation. It was also fantastic to hear many are equally as dedicated in supporting their local political organisations. Someone had described to me that B & H is like a big umbrella and has many many different and varied groups, associations and organisation under and within it. Each obviously united by their common patriotic, nationalist, white nationalist or national socialist ideals. With me being a newcomer to B & H it was inspiring to witness the unity within the association and amongst other groups and individuals present here.
I also saw there was quite a few other newcomers like myself, younger supporters, and quite a few females, who are often overlooked in such organisations. Very impressive to see and be part of, I was also told there are many equally as dedicated and active women within the white nationalist movement as men. But not all have the time to attend these events, I guess they are busy living the 14 words at home with their young children.
As I looked around, I estimated there was about nearly 200 people gathered here tonight and the first band appeared on stage stage and began to set up. There was to be two bands invited to play to the crowd. The first one being Legion Of St George who I saw at the ISD and the second band called Whitelaw, who I also had the honour of seeing at the Ian Stuart Memorial. I cant remember all the names of the songs that were played but remember the catchy We Are the Legion of St George and Whitelaw's anthem so Iam informed, of Whiteman Take The Salute. I was very impressed again with the professional nature of the bands, musical setup and lyrics of them both. A true credit to themselves and the white nationalist movement!
There was still some time to talk to my new found friends about trying to wake up the nations people to the suicide and perils they face living in todays hell-hole. How much shit, how many lies, how many acts from big brother will the nation stand? What will provoke people into getting up and shouting that enough is enough and this political correct madness has to stop!
As I left the venue I was maybe expecting to be shouted at or even chased by a gang of Red anti-fascist activists waiting outside. But my B & H friend laughingly told me that, that this never ever happens and the AFA or whatever they are called, are far too busy at home indulging in perverted gay sex or some other deviant drug fuelled behaviours.
I would like to thank B & H, and especially B & H Central Division for taking me to this event and thanks for the warm welcome from everyone there. I have only been to a few gigs but am feeling very welcome and Iam enjoying the friendly atmosphere amongst like minded people. I would encourage anyone else reading this and maybe not been to a B & H event consider going along. Just contact your local B & H and get up and go! Iam very glad I did and didnt believe all the media hype about violence, trouble and thugs looking for trouble at these events. All I have seen are like minded people with a love for their race gathering together. At the Ian Stuart Memorial there was plenty of kids around, a true family event. So lets hope to see more supporters at the next event! Cheers!
Written for B & H by Emu.[1]

[1] <http://xxx.bloodandhonourcentral.co.uk/gigs/041008.html>, accessed 21 February 2011. Spelling and punctuation as in original.

 

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There is a lot in this gig review, taken from the Blood & Honour Central Division website. A number of important areas emerge from a close reading of this review, which provide insights into what happens at a Blood & Honour gig.
The reviewer’s most obvious memory is the bonding he felt. He emphasises the ‘comradeship’ he experienced at the recent Ian Start Donaldson gig, that he was ‘warmly greeted’ and ‘made some new friends’ despite being new to the scene. He also declares that ‘it was inspiring to witness the unity within the association and amongst other groups and individuals present here’. The group experience is at the heart of this reviewer’s perception of the gig.
‘Emu’ sees the people at the gig as an oppressed and ignored elite. He talks about security precautions aimed at ‘those agents of the state that would happily see our patriotic voices stiffled [sic]’, about the apparently unfair bad press Blood & Honour receive – ‘the media hype about violence, trouble and thugs looking for trouble at these events’. He also mentions the difficulty in spreading the white power message: ‘There was still some time to talk to my new found friends about trying to wake up the nations people to the suicide and perils they face living in todays hell-hole’.
An important aspect of Blood & Honour gigs is the formation and reinforcement of the audience’s views. This occurs both through the music and lyrics of the bands, examples of which are given below in the lyrics section, and through socialising with other people at the gig. ‘Emu’ states that the audience ‘all share the same ideas, believes and aims’, suggesting that he has already spent some time within the radical right. Simon Frith notes that music gives us ‘immediate experience of a collective identity’, which empowers and exhilarates.[1] Frith continues, observing that ‘we use pop songs to create for ourselves particular sort of self-definition, a particular place in society’.[2] This heady mix, when alcohol is stirred in, seems from ‘Emu’s’ report to allow serious discussion and debate of the most outlandish notions without the ridicule it would attract elsewhere. The audience, ‘obviously united by their common patriotic, nationalist, white nationalist or national socialist ideals’, see themselves as the enlightened vanguard of the (white) British nation.
Within this environment the production of identity Frith notes – both the inclusive identity of people at a gig and its reverse, the production of an excluded ‘other’ – is removed from the innocent appearance it would have at, say, a Lady Gaga gig and takes on a more ominous guise.[3] For example, ‘Emu’ sees a great divide between the patriotic, friendly, honest and – to him – altruistic people at the gig, and their opponents, who he describes as perverted and deviant drug users. The identity produced in circumstances like these, in which bands like Whitelaw sing songs like ‘Kick the reds in’ or ‘White and proud’, or Woden’s hymns to the Norse gods, is unlikely to be a benign one.
So, Blood & Honour gigs are an important way for fascist organizations to recruit and retain members.[4] They are a means by which a shared community of ‘haters’ or ‘white supremacists’ can be formed.[5] The concerts therefore play an important part in the diffusion of racist and fascist views, and in the dissemination of news and propaganda through the stalls selling literature that ‘Emu’ points out.
A flavour of a Blood & Honour gig can be gained from these YouTube videos:
Whitelaw, ‘Take the salute’: http://wcx.youtube.com/watch?v=P5GkHUGG-hM
Legion of St George, ‘Defence of the realm’: http://xcx.youtube.com/watch?v=6rLyA8oBOuk

[1] Simon Frith, ‘Toward an aesthetic of popular music’ in Richard Leppert and Susan McClary (eds.), Music and society: the politics of composition, performance and reception (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987), p. 140

[2] Frith, ‘Toward an aesthetic of popular music’, p. 140

[3] Frith, ‘Toward an aesthetic of popular music’, p. 140

[4] ‘Neo-Nazi hate music: a guide. Introduction’, at <http://www.adl.org/main_Extremism/hate_music_in_the_21st_century.htm>, accessed 15 April 2011

[5] ‘Neo-Nazi hate music: a guide. Introduction’

 

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Blood & Honour lyrics
These lyrics were found on the Blood & Honour Highlander East Coast website, the website of one of their Scottish divisions. They are taken from CDs available from the website.[1] Lyrics of this sort are indicative of many bands who play Blood & Honour concerts.
Black and Asian communities
We’ll bomb your cities, destroy your towns
Wipe out the scum, kill all the browns
Hang politicians and waste the police
Until I’m feeling better, the murder will not cease!
‘Bomb the Cities’, from the Blue Eyed Devils album Murder Squad

Non white scum we’re gonna kill you
Slit your throat and watch you die
Time to crush the brown eyed subrace
Strangle, beat and crucify
Total destruction of all non whites
Right now is it time to attack
Take your guns, go shoot and kill
Cause the jew government won’t send them back
‘Vandalize and Victimize’, from the Blue Eyed Devils album Murder Squad

Nigger lover! Race traitor!
Walk in shame and hide your face
On your knees, my gun to your head
Worthless scum you know what lies ahead
With the pull of the trigger, now you’re dead!
‘Hate Filled Mind’, from the Blue Eyed Devils album Murder Squad

Bang, bang – watch ’em die
Watch those niggers drop like flies
‘Bang, Bang’, from the Berserkr album Crush the Weak

Death to the ones from the underground
All I hear is victory’s call
My nation’s honor rising above all
I regret nothing that I’ve done
I’ve seen so many through the sights of my gun
But to kill for the Reich is my job
A soldier in my nation’s murder squad
My orders are simple, plain and clear
Murder on command and have no fear
In my heart I know what’s right
To do what I must for my nation’s fight
Traitors are hung and others shot dead
Kill the jew and cut off his head
Destroy the enemy and his lies
Send the filth to an early demise
‘Murder Squad’ from the Blue Eyed Devils album Murder Squad



[1] These lyrics were quoted in Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens & Edmund Standing, Blood and Honour: Britain’s far-right militants (London: Centre for Social Cohesion, 2010), pp. 27-28

 

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Other lyrics from bands playing Blood & Honour gigs are no better, as this selection demonstrates. ‘Emu’ mentioned Whitelaw and Legion of St George. The Legion of St George’s ‘Hangman’s Knot’ is about the execution of John Amery in 1945 for treason. Amery helped raise the Legion of St George, known as the British Free Corps, for the Waffen SS.[1]

Legion of St George, ‘Hangman’s knot’[2]
Wandsworth prison, sentenced to death
Patriot traitor December 19th
Guilty of treason in 1945
Fought so our Europe could survive

Chorus:
Oh! Pierrepoint: he was the bravest man you ever hanged (in your words)
Oh! Pierrepoint: before you hung him you shook his hand (in your words)
Oh! Pierrepoint: hung for treason but fighting for this land
John Amery a true hero of an Englishman

Noose slipped on, pulled it tight
Felt it pinch, felt it bite
Smell the rope, smell the burn
They say it’s judgement day
And time to learn

Chorus x 2

Trapdoor open, weightless feeling
Short drop patriot, the rope is stretching
Zionists sneering, people cheering
Masses asleep to the loss of their freedom

Oh! Pierrepoint: he was the bravest man you ever hanged (in your words)
Oh! Pierrepoint: before you hung him you shook his hand (in your words)
Oh! Pierrepoint: hung for treason but fighting for this land
Oh! Pierrepoint: he smiled when he looked you in the eye
Oh! Pierrepoint: faced with death he didn’t give up hope
Oh! Pierrpoint: it was a patriot you killed with the rope
Oh! Pierrepoint: with death he didn’t give up hope
Oh! Pierrepoint!

Whitelaw, ‘Kick the reds in’[3]
Went down town on a Saturday
A few commie vermin got in our way
We steamed into them, we had real fun
Seeing the red scum on the run

Kick the reds in kick the reds in
All we could do was kick the reds in [2x]

Off to a pub for a few
There was more vermin in there too
Some commie bastard playing a guitar
So we decided to smash up the bar

Kick the reds in kick the reds in
All we could do was kick the reds in [2x]

A nightclub was our next port of call
There was more vermin on the dance floor
Bottles started flying tables and chairs
Coz all we could do was kick the reds in

Kick the reds in kick the reds in
All we could do was kick the reds in [8x]

Woden’s lyrics are not so overtly racist or commemorating dead fascists. However, they discuss other areas of concern. ‘Death Dealer’ is a condemnation of drug dealers, advocating their murder:
Woden, ‘Death Dealer’[4]
Poison is your stock in trade
From wrecked lives your wealth is made
You appear as the weaklings friend
You suck the life from those you tend

Death dealer your wares to sell
I hope you die and rot in hell
Sick fucker, you parasite
Creature of darkness, not of the light

Poison is your stock in trade
From wrecked lives your wealth is made
You appear as the weaklings friend
You suck the life from those you tend

You death dealer - soul stealer
You death dealer - soul stealer

You make out your life is fun
Corrupted bastard, you fucking scum
Take a bullet, chew on this
Times come for deaths sweet kiss

Death dealer - soul stealer
Death dealer - soul stealer

You take the soul of those you reach
Off others misery, you fucking leach

Many of Woden’s songs are hymns to Norse deities. Singing about Norse gods is a fascist trope, as Christianity is seen as a foreign, alien religion while the worship of Odin (or Woden) and the other members of the Viking pantheon finds favour within Nordic fascist circles. The Anti-Defamation League point out:
Viking/Norse Themes: Especially in Europe, but also in the U.S., songs that evoke Viking or Norse themes are common. These occur with greater frequency in Europe not only because Odinism is stronger there but also because hate bands can make references to Vikings safely, while they might face legal action singing about Nazis or Jews. But, as is so common in hate music, the Viking/Norse themes are typically used to urge people to take action, as in the Brutal Attack (Great Britain) song "When Odin Calls": "Ashes to ashes and dust to dust/In Odin's name carry on we must/And for the fallen those so brave/The fight goes on until the grave." Similarly, Youngland sings, in "Next Door to Heaven (Valhalla is Waiting for You)," a praise to whites who have taken action: "Now you have taken your place amongst the Nordic Kings/for the White race you've done such wonderful things."[5]
Here are the lyrics to Woden’s ‘Tribute’, which deals with this theme in a slightly different way, seeing two dead fascists, Ian Stuart Donaldson and Jurgen Van Hemeldonck, in Valhalla[6]:

[1] <http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php?title=John_Amery>, accessed 30 April 2011

[2] Lyrics from <http://xcx.youtube.com/watch?v=vu1IElD39FA&feature=player_embedded#at=295>, accessed 30 April 2011

[3] Lyrics from <http://xxx.lyricstime.com/whitelaw-kick-the-reds-in-lyrics.html>, accessed 30 April 2011

[4] Lyrics from < http://xxx.metal-archives.com/albums/Woden/In_Search_Of_Lost_Gods/180599>, accessed 30 April 2011

[5] ‘Neo-Nazi hate music: a guide. Themes’ at <http://www.adl.org/main_Extremism/hate_music_in_the_21st_century.htm?Multi_page_sections=sHeading_4>, accessed 15 April 2011

[6] Jurgen Van Hemeldonck was a Belgian fascist who died in a road accident in 2004. He was apparently a member of a fascist cycle club, and may have had an Odinist funeral. See Blood & Honour issue 30, p. 10, at <http://xxx.bloodandhonourworldwide.co.uk/magazine/issue30/issue30p10.html>, accessed 25 April 2011

 

[Sweetpea]

Probably a sensible idea. Apparently they're none too enamoured with Jewish folk.

neither is Jazzz, tbf

How do you know this?

 

[Blagsta]

How do you know this?

From his promotion of anti-semitic propaganda.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Where?

 

[Pickman's model]

Here on u75

do you think blagsta means on youtube?

 

[Blagsta]

Where?

His promotion of David Icke, his opinions on the protocols, his linking to anti-semitic sites like prison planet, promotion of Alex Jones etc.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Where?

On top of what Blagsta said, he has also openly admitted to be friends with Nick Kollerstrom, who is a proven anti-semite.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Fair enough. Although when someone is clearly very, very bad at telling the difference between trustworthy and untrustworthy sources, the company they keep may be less reliable a guide to their personal prejudices than in the case of someone with rather more acuity. It's not an accusation to level lightly.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Fair enough. Although when someone is clearly very, very bad at telling the difference between trustworthy and untrustworthy sources, the company they keep may be less reliable a guide to their personal prejudices than in the case of someone with rather more acuity. It's not an accusation to level lightly.

Fair point.

 

[butchersapron]

Fair enough. Although when someone is clearly very, very bad at telling the difference between trustworthy and untrustworthy sources, the company they keep may be less reliable a guide to their personal prejudices than in the case of someone with rather more acuity. It's not an accusation to level lightly.

Are you calling jazzz an idiot?

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Not a useful one, though.

 

[Blagsta]

Fair enough. Although when someone is clearly very, very bad at telling the difference between trustworthy and untrustworthy sources, the company they keep may be less reliable a guide to their personal prejudices than in the case of someone with rather more acuity. It's not an accusation to level lightly.

No, he knows what he's doing, its been pointed out enough times.

 

[malatesta32]

hey pickmans! where was that from?

 

[The39thStep]

Useful report that came out two years ago

http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/files/1266928262_1.pdf

 

[Pickman's model]

Useful report that came out two years ago

http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/files/1266928262_1.pdf

yeh, that report's referred to in what i posted.

 

[The39thStep]

yeh, that report's referred to in what i posted.

wasn't referring to you cut and past.Already had the report that I posted and thought it useful to share

 

[Pickman's model]

wasn't referring to you cut and past.Already had the report that I posted and thought it useful to share

it's surprising that so little's been written on the far right, especially the bnp and blood & honour.

 

[The39thStep]

it's surprising that so little's been written on the far right, especially the bnp and blood & honour.

Over the last five years or so there has been an increase ,especially academic research, on the BNP. Mathew Goodwin has pretty much made a career out of it. Very little on B&h but they are very very marginal.

 

[Pickman's model]

Over the last five years or so there has been an increase ,especially academic research, on the BNP. Mathew Goodwin has pretty much made a career out of it. Very little on B&h but they are very very marginal.

there has been an increase in the number of articles, but we're still not talking about a great number and written by maybe 7 or 8 people

 

[The39thStep]

Agreed but lets face it there wasn't that much written about the NF.Come to think of it very little about far left recently or the anarchist scene.

 

[LLETSA]

Agreed but lets face it there wasn't that much written about the NF.Come to think of it very little about far left recently or the anarchist scene.

There's not really much of a market, just the far left reading about the far right and the far right reading about the far left. And both sides reading about each other.