Lash wrote:Think about it.
Do you think the ones who claim to be "official party members" (Nazis and your garden variety anti-Semite) may grow exponentially when there isn't a law condemning the activity? There is a Big Brother like program, which watches these people's activities, isn't there? What idiot would admit solidarity with neoNazis, knowing the law? I say a distinct minority.
You don't have to be a Nazi to hate Jews and deny the Holocaust.
They are there. You just can't see them, because they are muzzled. This is not because you are in Germany. I believe this fact would exist in any country with the muzzle law, to a degree.
You see, Lash, I've quite often thought about it - got even some academic degree for my thinking.
Chumly asked how the support of Nazis is quantified / qualified and your response is ... well, be assured that my work as a social worker with Nazi groups plus my 'activities' with our state's police in addition to the above noted gave me at least a better insight than you have.
Nazi parties are not forbidden per se - showing Nazi enblems, signs, flags etc from the NSDAP is as well as having a program which is against our constitution. (I think Thomas noted it already: we had some members of different Nazi parties elected in some state's paliaments, there are still in some municipies.
Besides, membership in a party isn't the same like registered in the USA: political parties need members (for various reasons, especially their finances), so it really is a (one of several) measure of support.
