The NPD, which favours policies benefiting ethnic Germans and an end to new immigration, is a tiny fringe movement on the political scene with just 6,000 members. It has become associated in recent years with young skinheads. To make the ban effective, the government needs to demonstrate to the constitutional court that the NPD poses a threat to democracy in Germany. It is important to show in Germany and to those abroad that we will not tolerate such a force Otto Schily Interior Minister Otto Schily believes he has that proof. Accusing the party of inciting racial violence, Mr Schily said it was impossible to tolerate organised anti-Semitism in a land where there had been gas chambers for the murder of millions of Jews.
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