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Revision as of 10:19, 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.
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 of the Far right. 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 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 Rechten) 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, the editor of the weekly mgazine 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.
External links
- Website of the IDGR (German, automated translation links provided here)
- Lexikon of the IDGR (German, translation as above)