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Revision as of 07:22, 23 May 2006 by Foreigner (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Template:Totallydisputed The Informationsdienst gegen Rechtsextremismus (IDGR) is a German project on the Internet to fight against Holocaust denial similar to the Nizkor Project. The IDGR was founded by political scientist Margret Chatwin in 1998. Today, several authors contribute to this privately financed project. Many people regard the IDGR website as the primary 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 further 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 are covering related issues such as the history of the Colonia Dignidad or White Supremacy movements in the USA as well.
An important subsection of the homepage is the Lexicon of Right Wing Extremism consisting of currently about 300 files. Detailed information about right wing activists (such as Erich Priebke), organizations (National Alliance), publications and Holocaust deniers (Ernst Zündel, Germar Rudolf or David Irving) are available there.
Controversial Discussion
Negatively, indeed as inadmissible mixture of Konservatismus and right-wing extremism, rate some the requirement of the IDGR, Contacts, To uncover cross-linkings and ideological points of contact between right-conservative persons and organizations with right-wing extremist groups. Concerned of it above all groups are, beside representatives of the German new ones rights those the right edge of the Union parties to be added, for instance Institut for state politics or the study center Weikersheim. Their trailer rate the representation of the IDGR as attempt, also democratically gesinnte persons and groups into the proximity of right-extremist efforts to move and consider it therefore ideologically embarrassed. - Claus's wolf impact, among other things author of the IDGR as right-wing extreme classified weekly paper the boy liberty, criticized, the Website serves above all the Diffamierung of personalities to the right. Wolfschlag impact and other critics classify some authors of the IDGR than left-wing extremists.
External links
- Website of the IDGR (German, automated translation links provided here)
- Lexikon of the IDGR (German, translation as above)