Published: 23 April 2018
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Many of the mostly male right-wing extremists wore T-shirts with slogans such as “Keepers of the Race,” “White is my favourite colour” and “Adolf was the best,” while the event was guarded by a group called “Aryan Brotherhood.”
Hundreds of armoured police ringed the site of the “Schild und Schwert” (Shield and Sword, or SS) festival near the Polish and Czech borders that was expected to also attract eastern European extremists.
Police were backed by water cannon and armoured vehicles, mounted patrols and boats patrolling the Neisse border river, on the western banks of which the shaven-headed and often heavily tattooed attendees were pitching their tents or parking camper vans.
FULL STORY Hundreds of neo-Nazis attend far-right festival in German town (Times of Israel)
Photo: Police inspect the premises at the Shield and Sword neo-Nazi festival, in Ostritz on April 20 (AFP/John MacDougall)
