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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 (who has studied '']'')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.

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	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 Rechte'') 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 '']'' (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 ].

	==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)
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	* of the IDGR (German, translation as above)

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	==External Links==
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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

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Further reading