This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Foreigner (talk | contribs) at 07:36, 23 May 2006 (→Controversial Discussion: doing away with a very special dispute (please feel free to paste it again if you understand it in full and if you ar willing to describe it appropriate)). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.
Revision as of 07:36, 23 May 2006 by Foreigner (talk | contribs) (→Controversial Discussion: doing away with a very special dispute (please feel free to paste it again if you understand it in full and if you ar willing to describe it appropriate))(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 an inadmissible valuation of conservatism as right-wing extremism, some critics rate what the IDGR claims to bee uncovering cross-linkings and ideological points of contact between right-conservative persons and organizations with right-wing extremist groups.
Their trailer rate the representation of the IDGR as attempt, also democratically minded persons and groups into the proximity of right-extremist efforts to move and consider it therefore ideologically embarrassed. - Claus Wolfschlag for sample impacts the Website serves above all the defamation 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)