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The Informationsdienst gegen Rechtsextremismus (IDGR) is a German project on the Internet to counter Holocaust denial, similar to the Nizkor Project. The IDGR was founded by Margret Chatwin (who has studied Politikwissenschaft)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 extremism.

Mission

The mission of the IDGR is to unmask anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial and to provide reliable information about the Holocaust, 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 Nazism and extremism. The articles cover related issues such as the history of the Colonia Dignidad or White Supremacy movements in the United States.

One subsection of the homepage is the Lexicon of Right Wing Extremism, consisting of about 300 files. Detailed information about right-wing activists (such as Erich Priebke), organizations, (National Alliance), publications, and Holocaust deniers (Ernst Zündel, Germar Rudolf and David Irving) 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 German conservative party 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 left-wing extremists.

Further reading

• Website of the IDGR (German, automated translation links provided here)
• Lexikon of the IDGR (German, translation as above)

External Links

• criticism concerning the IDGR by Claus Wolfschlag, a publicist who is conciderd to be New Right (in German only)]

• Anti-neo-Nazi activism
• Holocaust denial