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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. | |||
| The '''Informationsdienst gegen Rechtsextremismus (IDGR)''' is a ] project on the ] to counter ], similar to the ]. The IDGR was founded by ] Margret Chatwin in 1998. Today, several authors contribute to this privately financed project. Many people regard the IDGR website as the main German-language source of information on ]. | |||
| 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> | |||
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| == Mission == | |||
| The mission of the IDGR is to unmask ] and Holocaust denial and to provide reliable information about the ], its perpetrators, and its background. This includes in-depth analyses of news reports and revisionist literature as well as references to books or Internet pages. | |||
| == Structure == | |||
| The main part of the website is a regularly updated collection of texts dealing with different topics in the field of ] and ]. The articles cover related issues such as the history of the ] or ] movements in the United States. | |||
| One subsection of the ] is the ''Lexicon of Right Wing Extremism'', consisting of about 300 files. Detailed information about right-wing ] (such as ]), organizations, (]), publications, and Holocaust deniers (], ] and ]) are available there. | |||
| ==Controversial Discussion== | |||
| Some describe the activities of the IDGR, to uncover contacts and links between radical right-wing individuals and right-wing conservative groups and people, as being based on an unfounded connection between conservatism and right-wing extremism. Particularly groups of the German New Right (''Neuen Rechten'') and on the right wing of the ] are affected by this. These groups accuse the IDGR of trying to write off democratically inclined groups by linking them with right-wing extremism, and therefore see the IDGR's actions as being ideologically motivated. Claus Wolfschlag, an author contributing from time to time to the weekly magazine ''Junge Freiheit'' (described by the IDGR as being an extremist right-wing publication), has criticised the IDGR website as serving to merely to defame personalities on the political right. Wolfschlag and others also view some of the IDGR's authors as ]. | |||
| ==References== | |||
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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) | |||
| * of the IDGR (German, automated translation links provided ) | |||
| * of the IDGR (German, translation as above) | |||
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| * by ], a publicist who is conciderd to be ] (in German only)] | |||
Latest revision as of 19:14, 11 January 2020
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
Further reading
- Albrecht Kolthoff: Der Informationsdienst gegen Rechtsextremismus (IDGR). In: Stephan Braun, Daniel Hörsch (Hrsg.): Rechte Netzwerke - eine Gefahr. VS - Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden, 2004, S. 231-242. ISBN 3-8100-4153-X (in German)