The financing of violence-oriented right-wing extremist organizations and actors in Germany is diverse and wide-ranging. However, current, well-founded analyses of financial strategies and sources of income are largely lacking. A "follow the money" approach to uncovering network structures, such as has been established in some cases in the prevention and countering of Islamist extremism and terrorism, does not yet seem to exist in the area of right-wing extremism. Large parts of the right-wing extremist scene, and especially the violence-oriented and transnational milieu, are highly interconnected. These distinctive network structures become visible in various ways. This is where this CEP study comes in, based on analyses by leading experts.
Authors: Alexander Ritzmann, Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler, Dr. Thorsten Hindrichs and Maximilian Kreter
Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.
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On October 7, 2023, Hamas invaded southern Israel where, in the space of eight hours, hundreds of armed terrorists perpetrated mass crimes of brutality, rape, and torture against men, women and children. In the biggest attack on Jewish life in a single day since the Holocaust, 1,200 were killed, and 251 were taken hostage into Gaza—where 101 remain. One year on, antisemitic incidents have increased by record numbers.
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