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			The '''Informationsdienst gegen Rechtsextremismus (IDGR)''' ''(Information Service against Right-Wing Extremism)'' was a German-language internet portal devoted to collecting information about persons, organisations and publications which promote ], ] and ].<ref></ref> It was founded in 1998 and maintained until 2006 by Margret Chatwin.
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			Right-wing critics have accused the IDGR of engaging in unduly exposing and defaming individuals on the ], and of being associated with ].<ref>, (make their social setting hell) by C.-M. Wolfschlag, February 28, 2003</ref>

	The '''Informationsdienst gegen Rechtsextremismus (IDGR)''' has been a ] project on the ] set up to counter ], ] extremism and ] with information about them. Founded in 1998 by ''Margret Bezold-Chatwin <ref> </ref>'', commonly known under the pen name ''Magret Chatwin'', IDGR provided documents, sources and articles on these themes for first information, scholars and scientific research, somewhat like the ], but with a different policy. In fact, Chatwin was a contributor to nizkor too. <ref> </ref> On September 27, 2006 the editor stopped the service.

	Chatwin blamed wikipedia and other projects to have stolen her ]. <ref> </ref>

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	== Purpose ==
	The intention of the IDGR-authors was to describe anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial and to provide reliable information about the ], its perpetrators, and its background. This included providing in-depth analyses {{Fact\|date=April 2007}} of news reports and revisionist literature, as well as references to books or Internet pages, but not directly to right extremist pages. Unlike Nizkor, the IDGR did not give access to communication with Holocaust deniers, but rather described their biographies, evolution of thought and organisational connections.

	== Structure ==
	The main part of the website was a regularly updated {{Fact\|date=April 2007}} collection of texts dealing with different topics in the field of ] and ]. One subsection of the homepage has been the "Lexicon of Right Wing Extremism", consisting of about 300 files. It contained detailed information about right-wing activists (such as ]), organizations, (f.e. ]), publications, and Holocaust deniers (f.e. ], ] and ]).

	==Support==
	In 2002, the IDGR won an annual price of 5.000 Euro by the ''Bündnis für Demokratie und Toleranz'',<ref></ref> an initiative for supporting civil engagement against racism, extremism and antisemitism.<ref></ref>

	The IDGR also was suggested as a reliable source by Andreas Klärner, author at the ] of ], in 2004. But Klärner criticised the decision of the editor not to link to sources on right wing extremist pages.<ref></ref>

	==Controversies==
	Not only persons associated with the German New Right (''Neue Rechte'') and the right wing of the ] {{Fact\|date=April 2007}} accused the IDGR of trying to defame democrats by linking them with right-wing extremism for ideological reasons. ], an author of the weekly '']''<ref>, ], 2006</ref>, has criticised the IDGR as serving mainly to expose and defame personalities on the political right.<ref>, (make their social setting hell) by C.-M. Wolfschlag, ], 2003</ref> He and others also view some of the IDGR's authors as ].

	==Closure==
	After some of the former co-authors had left the project and founded a new project called ''redok'', Margret Chatwin closed the IDGR in September 2006. In her final statement she gave as reasons: The idea of the Internet to provide and exchange free information for everyone had been distortet and commercialised. Later, she added:<ref></ref>
	{{cquote\|Im übrigen sei darauf hingewiesen, dass es kein wie auch immer geartetes "Nachfolgeprojekt" gibt. Tatsächlich hat sich der kleine Zirkel, der dies öffentlich behauptet, bereits vor Jahren aus eigener Entscheidung vom IDGR abgewandt, um ein gänzlich anderes Projekt zu realisieren. Mit dem IDGR hat dieses Projekt in keiner Weise zu tun, schließlich fehlt es diesem an der entscheidenden Substanz – den Inhalten, die zu etwa 90 Prozent von der einstigen Herausgeberin verfasst wurden.}}

	{{cquote\|Also it is to be noted that there is no follow-up-project in any way. In fact, the small circle claiming this in public has already decided on its own years ago to leave IDGR and founded a totally different project. This project has nothing to do with the IDGR, it lacks the essential substance of it - the contents which were written to about 90 percent by the former editor.}}

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	==Further reading==		==Further reading==
	* Albrecht Kolthoff: ''Der Informationsdienst gegen Rechtsextremismus (IDGR)''. In: ], Daniel Hörsch (Hrsg.): ''Rechte Netzwerke - eine Gefahr''. VS - Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden, 2004, S. 231-242. ISBN 3-8100-4153-X (in German)		* Albrecht Kolthoff: ''Der Informationsdienst gegen Rechtsextremismus (IDGR)''. In: ], Daniel Hörsch (Hrsg.): ''Rechte Netzwerke - eine Gefahr''. VS - Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden, 2004, S. 231-242. {{ISBN\|3-8100-4153-X}} (in German)

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The Informationsdienst gegen Rechtsextremismus (IDGR) (Information Service against Right-Wing Extremism) was a German-language internet portal devoted to collecting information about persons, organisations and publications which promote far-right extremism, antisemitism and Holocaust denial. It was founded in 1998 and maintained until 2006 by Margret Chatwin. Right-wing critics have accused the IDGR of engaging in unduly exposing and defaming individuals on the political right, and of being associated with far-left extremism.

References

Andreas Klärner: Recension about IDGR for H-Soz-Kult, 23. January 2004 (German)
Macht ihnen ihr soziales Umfeld zur Hölle, (make their social setting hell) by C.-M. Wolfschlag, February 28, 2003

Latest revision as of 19:14, 11 January 2020

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Further reading