THOUSANDS ATTEND GERMAN NATIONALIST GATHERING IN SAXONY
6,900 Attend Successful `Deutsche Stimme' Festival

Beautiful summer weather welcomed 6,900 nationalists and patriots who
met in Mücka, Saxony, on Saturday, August 7, for the fourth festival of
the "Deutsche Stimme" ("German Voice") publishers, to strengthen
motivation and spirit for a better Germany.

Guests from the USA, Russia, Canada, Spain, Italy, England, Hungary, the
Czech republic, Slovakia and France underlined the event's international
standing for the worldwide national resistance movement.

The participants really enjoyed the open-air event, with speeches and
the musical performances by live bands. In addition, the lectures inside
the meeting hall were well attended. Underscoring the political
character of the event were speeches by Udo Voigt, chairman of the
National Democratic Party (NPD), nationalist publisher Herbert
Schweiger, World War II fighter pilot Col. Hajo Herrmann, a spokesman
for the Russian nationalist organization "Pamyat," Alexander Kamkin, and
Stefan Rochow, chairman of the JN, youth section of the NPD. Spectators
enjoyed music by Frank Rennicke, Michael Müller, Sleipnir and Jörg
Hähnel, as well as the bands "Radikahl," "Kraftschlag" and "Youngland."

Among the authors and publishers who participated were Prof. Dr. Klaus
Sojka ("Unverwundbarer Ruhm - Opfergang im Felde und in der Heimat"),
Austrian publisher Gerhoch Reisegger ("Wir werden schamlos irregeführt -
Vom 11. September bis zum Irakkrieg"), Peter Naumann ("Die Lockspitzel
des Verfassungsschutzes und der 'rechte Terror'"). An entertaining
cultural evening also included a political cabaret ("Volk ans Gehirn").

Adding to the festival's appeal were parallel events, including
Volkstanz (folk dancing) and tombola, as well as participation of many
young families with their children. Youngsters enjoyed a children's
program with a children's jumping-castle, and a rodeo riding tournament
accompanied with regular musical hits.

The day brought together people of different generations, and it was
impressive how young and old nationalists showed harmony and national
solidarity. They made clear that the national resistance represents a
community of generations, in contrast to the individualistic BRD
society. A range of activists, including national revolutionaries,
old-line conservatives, German patriots, and supporters of such
patriotic parties as the NPD, DVU, REP, DP, demonstrated a common will
to overcome divisions and work together for the future. In addition to
representatives of such groups as the NPD, JN and NHB were participants
of the "Nationale Bündnis Dresden," "Aktionsbüro Norddeutschland", "Bund
freier Jugend", "Deutsche Rechtsbüro," "Aktion freies
Deutschland", "Heimattreue Jugend," "Kameradschaft Karlsruhe",
"Hilfsgemeinschaft für Nationale Gefangene," "Nationale und Soziale
Aktionsbüro Mitteldeutschland", "Freie Infotelefon", "Nationale und Soziale
Aktionsbündnis Thüringen", "Club 88", "Gemeinschaft Deutscher Frauen,"
"Jugendklub Grünau", "Freie Jugendprojekt Berlin", "Deutsch-Ungarische
Freundeskreis," "SC Friedrichroda", and the periodicals "Unabhängige
Nachrichten", "Deutsche Militärzeitung", "Freiheit Wattenscheid",
"Herrlich Herrmannsland", "Förderturm", "Unsere Welt", and "Triskele."

Although harassment and restrictions by local government authorities are
routine at these events, this year, as in the past, the police made no
arrests. The fact that there were no arrests, even though alcoholic
beverages were sold, and there were rock music bands in the evening,
shows the remarkable discipline of the nearly 7,000 attendees.

Also remarkable was the exceptional interest shown by local residents.
Many people who lived nearby attended, in spite of denunciations of the
event by regional church leaders and prominent public figures. The
protestant Lutheran church of the
Berlin-Brandenburg-Schlesische-Oberlausitz region, the regional bishop,
the church district Niesky, and the representative of foreigners in the
rural district, had issued a public statement denouncing this event, and
the NPD, as contrary to "our understanding of a democratic society and
Christian ethics."

The festival's success was also a rebuke of the regional "Landesamt für
Verfassungsschutz," the secret police of Saxony, which tried, as usual,
to cancel the event by intimidating the owner of the property where it
took place. In a news release, a spokesman for the regional
Verfassungsschutz office warned that the event, which he said might
draw 3,500 visitors, would be an advertisement for right wing extremism.
Every person who attended, the office warned, would be helping to
finance and support right wing extremism.

A main goal of the festival, summed up in its slogan, "To Give Saxony a
Future - NPD Into the Legislature," was to boost the National Democratic
Party's regional election campaign. Even though this event was almost
entirely ignored by the media, it was an important milestone. The NPD
scored impressively in local elections on June 13, with victories for
its candidates in several local assemblies, and with rightist parties
gaining nearly eight percent of the vote in Saxony in the EU elections.

According to the most recent public opinion poll by MDR television, five
percent of the Saxony electorate will definitely vote for the NPD in the
forthcoming September 19 election, with another nine percent considering
doing so.