https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junge_Nationalisten
The Young Nationalists (Junge Nationalisten) are the youth wing of the German far-right party the NPD (the Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands - National Democratic Party of Germany, also known as Die Heimat - The Homeland), the JN is an organisation with various connections to the international far-right, including:
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Participation in the Reconquista Movement (International) conference1
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Organising talks with Olena Semenyaka:
Semenjaka has played an important role for the Ukrainian right-wing extremists in recent years. She worked as the international secretary of the National Corps, a party that emerged from the Azov regiment. There are photos in which she shows the Nazi salute, in others she poses with a swastika or the Nazi symbol of the Black Sun. Their mission is to turn the Azov movement into a coalition of far-right groups in the western world to take over Europe, Semenyaka told Time in 2019-Magazine. For years she has been traveling to right-wing extremists in other European countries - according to research by ZEIT, eight times also to events in Germany: at the invitation of the Dierechte party and the NPD juniors Junge Nationalisten or in 2018 as a speaker at a festival of neo-Nazis from the Third Way. https://web.archive.org/web/20220315173814/https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2022-03/rechtsextremismus-neonazis-rekrutierung-russland-ukraine-krieg/komplettansicht
- Allegedly receiving paramilitary training from Russian Imperial Movement:
In the past, members of the NPD youth organization Young Nationalists and the neo-Nazi micro-party Third Way have taken part in courses at a paramilitary training center of the right-wing extremist organization Russian Imperial Movement (Russian Reich Movement, RIM) in St. Petersburg Close combat techniques are taught. The federal government said this in its answer to a question from the left-wing member of the Bundestag Martina Renner, which is available to the editorial network Germany (RND). https://www.rnd.de/politik/deutsche-neonazis-in-russland-an-waffen-ausgebildet-P7CANI6VLFFENEUGAKZENG6H2Y.html
- Participating in tournaments with the White Rex (Russian) organisation alongside CasaPound (Italy) 2
The JN has involved both the Russian Imperial Movement and Olena Semenyaka of the National Corps party in its meetings, this has reportedly been more advantageous to the National Corps than the RIM:
In October 2017, the Young Nationalists (JN), a youth wing of the NPD, announced a conference called REgeneration.Europa to take place on 11-12 May 2018. The JN listed a dozen of participating far-right organisations, including Svoboda, which would be represented by Yury Noevy, and Russian Imperial Movement (RID), which became notorious for its logistical and material support for pro-Russian separatists in Eastern Ukraine. In February 2018, as Noevy found out of the RID’s participation in the conference, he cancelled his participation, possibly out of fear of confronting the Russian enemy in real life. The JN also listed five guest speakers, including Olena Semenyaka (without mentioning her affiliation with the National Corps), who eventually took part in the conference.
According to various reports from the event, Noevy’s decision to cancel his participation was strategically misguided: the RID’s representative chose a wrong strategy to present the Russian cause and promoted Russian imperialism which was not well accepted by many participants of the conference who considered imperialism as an antithesis to their ultranationalism. During a drinking party, the RID’s representative was even punched by a member of the Czech National and Social Front. At the same time, Semenyaka (and one more female member of the National Corps) seem to have built even more international contacts.
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