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Revision as of 07:57, 23 May 2006 by Foreigner (talk | contribs) (→Controversial Discussion)(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
Some critics complain that the IDGR does an inadmissible valuation of conservatism as right-wing extremism. The IDGR on the other hand claims to bee uncovering cross-linkings and ideological points of contact between right-conservative persons and organizations with right-wing extremist groups. Because of this incompatible points of view conservatives often judge the view of the IDGR as an attempt, to defame also democratically minded persons and groups tho have a proximity of right-extremist efforts. Conservative critics therefore consider the IDGR to be ideologically embarrassed. - Claus Wolfschlag for sample impacts the IDGR-website serves above all the defamation of personalities to the right. Wolfschlag and other critics impacts some author writing for the IDGR to be adherents of ultra leftism.
External links
- Website of the IDGR (German, automated translation links provided here)
- Lexikon of the IDGR (German, translation as above)