Since our founding, the volunteer human rights group Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.)’s campaigns for human rights and dignity have also included our opposition of white supremacist racist symbols from Nazis and Confederates.

We have directly challenged and opposed the efforts of such groups to develop recruits around the world, the United States, and particularly in the Washington DC area. Within the United States, we view the Nazi and Confederate white supremacist amalgamation to be the primary threat to American human rights. During much of the world’s history, this white supremacy has also been the primary threat to world human rights.

Why Protest Adolf Hitler, Nazi, and Confederate Imagery?

R.E.A.L. rejects the obscene and white supremacist racist public imagery of Adolf Hitler, Nazi swastikas, and Confederate Flag and monuments. These symbols of white supremacy racism are a rejection to our Universal Human Rights, contempt for the American Constitution, human dignity, and our national security. These are symbols of the very enemies of civilized human beings. We reject, renounce, defy, and will PROTEST the efforts to “normalize” such symbols of racist hate within our communities and our nation, as well as on the Internet, media, stage, art, and publications.

The white supremacist images and views of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis are nothing other than an offense to all civilized human beings, the very essence of human Evil itself.

In this posting, R.E.A.L. will focus on the historical and ongoing threat of the Nazi white supremacist enemy to humanity. We completely reject such artificial terms as “Neo-Nazi” as somehow different from the German Nazi party. They are not. The white supremacist ideology of Nazism remains the same, regardless of the nationality, just as it was with the Axis powers. Efforts to distinguish Nazis versus Neo-Nazis on technical historical views shows a lack of understanding for the white supremacist ideology, its purpose, and its CONTINUING GOAL to subjugate the people of the world to these white supremacists. Nazism did not end with Adolf Hitler, and we see the continuing terrorist violence and abuse of Hitler’s Nazi ideology around the world today.

Nazism is not simply a “historical” enemy of humanity; Nazi terrorism remains a near and present danger to people today.

Adolf Hitler’s white supremacist Nazi ideology has attacked men, women, Jews, Muslims, gays, Christians, African-Americans, Asians, the disabled, and continues to be a terrorist threat in the United States of America and around the world.

The normalization of such racist hate symbols and figures continues to erode our shared stance on human rights and dignity, as the United States of America knows all too well with the racist Confederate flag and symbols. 150 years after the end of the Civil War, Americans continue to fight the struggle to defy public symbols of such racist hate, as the Confederate flag. The terrorism behind such racist hate symbols has continued unabated, and while white Americans shrugged (or God Forbid laughed), African-Americans continued to pay the price with their lives, their human rights, and their dignity. We must defy racist symbols of hate by rejecting their public display with our own free speech.

The racist hate ideology of Nazism did not die or end with the monster Adolf Hitler but has continued throughout Europe and United States, including attacks in Washington DC, murder of Maryland citizens, and attacks and killings of minority houses of worship and African-Americans and other minorities in recent years.

It may seem universal for people of conscience to reject and denounce the hate imagery of Adolf Hitler and Nazism, but inaction and silence is not taking a stand. All that symbols of hate need to become “normalized” in society are for good men and women to DO NOTHING. Just like it took Americans 150 years to start taking down the Confederate flag — the same Confederate racist flag which is used publicly in Europe in those areas where the Nazi swastika flag is illegal.

Hitler’s white supremacist ideology is not an attack on just one group of people. The Nazi white supremacist terrorist ideology is an enemy to most of the world. The Nazi terrorist and anti-human rights crimes against human beings across the world inspired the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948, signed by the world’s nations. We cannot stand for universal human rights, and shrug our shoulders at this criminal white supremacist ideology.

At the funeral of Maryland’s Stephen Johns, murdered by a Nazi terorist at the Washington DC U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), Dr. John McCoy said: “Silence is not a safe response in the face of racism, sexism, or any of the other isms in this world.” “Silence is unforgivable for those who call themselves children of God or even civilized.”

Silence is unforgivable.

We have seen what SILENCE has wrought.

— Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Racist War against Jews – killing 6 million Jews in the Holocaust, before the Allied defeat of the terrorist Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime, liberating the remaining last survivors of the Nazi concentration camp. The horrific crimes against humanity by the Nazis against Jewish people are breathtakingly horrific. Throughout Germany, Adolf Hitler promoted the apocryphal Anti-Semitic hate screed the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” to promote popular hatred and distrust of Jewish people. By 1938, this hate campaign led to an attack on Jewish synagogues and shops throughout Germany and Austria in the Kristallnacht campaign. In 1933, Hitler began establishing his concentration camps. Hitler began rounding up Jewish people and people for concentration camps. Jewish people were beaten, whipped, tortured, starved, and killed. The Nazis used medical experimentation on their bodies, and mutilated them. In 1939, Jewish people were marked with a yellow badge to indicate that they were Jewish. From 1939 to 1941, Hitler’s Holocaust of the Jewish people took on a broader focus with his invasion of Poland and other nations. By 1942, Hitler pursued a “Final Solution” for genocide against Jewish people by poison gas centers and concentration camps, with bodies burned in mass crematoriums. In response to Hitler’s crimes against humanity, the United Nations and the nations of the world banded together on December 10, 1948 to develop a UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS (UDHR) – to agree around the world that all people, of all identity groups, all religions, would have a universal measure to be protected from genocide. In 2000, this was reaffirmed by world nations in the Declaration of the Stockholm International Forum of the Holocaust, which states “the international community shares a solemn responsibility to fight those evils” of “genocide, ethnic cleansing, racism, antisemitism and xenophobia.” Nazis continue to attack Jews around the world, defacing synagogues, killing Jewish people, and plotting terror attacks on them, such as the attack on the Washington DC U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. In 2014, the Kansas City Jewish Community Center was attacked by a Nazi terrorist. Nazi terrorism against Jewish people in the United Kingdom continues to increase, including attacks on synagogues and Jews on the street. In June 2014, Nazis attacked a crowd of Jewish people on the street, hurling rocks, flares at them, and stabbing one Jewish man. In March 2015, a Jewish synagogue in London was attacked by Nazis in the streets calling “we will kill you,” with 20 members in the synagogue desperately trying to defend themselves with chairs, books, anything to stop the Nazi attack on the synagogue. In May 2015, Nazis marched on Downing Street in London, calling for the end of Jewish people in London.

— Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Racist War on people of African descent and African-Americans. Hitler’s Nazi regime had a war on those African people living in Germany or the nations it occupied with its white supremacist terrorist forces. As the USHMM has reported, Hitler’s Nazis imprisoned, oppressed, and ostracized people of African descent. They lost their jobs, some were sterilized, some were sent to Nazi concentration camps, including African-Americans. At the concentration camps, they were subjected to extreme brutality and medical experimentation; many were worked to death. An African-American U.S. military unit participated in the liberation of one of the Nazi concentration camps. The Nazi war on people of African descent, similar to the Confederate and American slave masters, did not end with the defeat of Adolf Hitler. Nazis in Europe and America continue to target people of African descent for oppression, violence, and murder. In the United States, this has included Nazi terror attacks on African-American Christian churches, by terrorists such as Daniel Cowart, and more recently in South Carolina by Dylann Roof, a Confederate terrorist who was a participant on a Nazi website. Dylann Roof murdered nine African-American Christians during a prayer meeting. R.E.A.L. has previously reported that 180 houses of worship are targets of arson in America every year. We have also reported on the killing of Maryland’s Stephen Tyrone Johns, an African-American security guard, by Nazi James Von Brunn who attacked the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. On Nazi/Confederate hate sites such as Stormfront, African-Americans are the constant targets of hate and praise and support for terrorist attacks on them.

— Nazi War on Christians. There were many extremists in Nazi Germany among Christians, including extremists in clergy who were part of the Nazi’s Anti-Semitic campaign. But the history of Nazi oppression of Christians is often forgotten both in history and in current day reality, especially when viewed in the historical light that the Nazi goal was to destroy Christianity. Hitler’s Nazis persecuted Christians who defied them and who stood for Christian values in Germany.  Aggressive anti-Church radicals like Propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler led a take over of churches in Germany (the Kirchenkampf), forcing them to reject any Christian values that the Nazi party would not accept. This led to struggles among both Protestant and the Roman Catholic Churches which were occupied by the Nazi racial supremacists. Jesuits were attacked and Catholic properties were taken over by the Nazis. Clergymen were sent to concentration camps, and Nazi Himmler sought to end the “principle of Christian mercy” among the German people, which was part of a long-term goal to end Christianity in Nazi Germany. As part of war criminal trials, the United States Organization of Strategic Services (OSS) developed a document on “The Nazi Master Plan” to destroy Christianity in Germany. As Nazi Baldur von Shirach wrote “the destruction of Christianity was explicitly recognized as a purpose of the National Socialist movement.” Nearly 2000 Polish Christian clergy were sent to the Nazi concentration camps.  The Jehovah Witness religious adherents were singled out for oppression and sent to concentration camps. The attack on Christians by the Nazis did not end with Adolf Hitler or WWII. The continuing Nazi racist ideology remains focused on rejection and terrorism of Christianity around the world. In April 2015, this included a Nazi terrorist bombing at Orthodox parish of Saint Vladimir in Marzahn-Hellensdorf, near Berlin. In the United States, this has included efforts by Nazi terrorists to attack African-American churches, such as Daniel Cowart’s attack in Tennessee and Dylann Roof’s attack in Charleston, where he murdered 9 African-Americans. In April 2014, a Nazi terrorist killed three Christians in Kansas City, who were preparing for a play, including a 14 year old boy, Reat Griffin Underwood (a Boy Scout), his grandfather, and another woman. As R.E.A.L. has investigated in the USA, Nazi terrorists view the end of Christianity to be a priority for the goals. Therefore, Nazi terror attacks on Christian churches fits within their ideology. Stormfront Nazis post that their racial identity is their only religion.  Christians have a particular responsibility both as victims and the historical responsibility of those extremists with white supremacists to protest and reject Nazi and Hitler.

— Nazi War on Muslims. As R.E.A.L. has repeatedly reported, Nazi individuals and groups targeted minority Muslims in the United States, Europe, and other parts of the world. As reported recently in Arizona, mosque protesters included Nazis among armed protesters in the crowd. In Tennessee, Nazi terrorists who were members of the “Aryan Alliance” firebombed the Islamic Center of Columbia, south of Nashville, after they painted Nazi swastikas on it; Michael Corey Golden got 14 years in prison, and his fellow Nazi terrorists were convicted and imprisoned. Anti-Muslim extremists on Stormfront Nazi site regularly use racial supremacist ideology in their basis to call for ethnic cleansing of Muslims. In the United Kingdom, in March 2015, Nazi swastika flags were flown in the British streets of Newcastle as part of extremist anti-Muslim campaigns, and in Newcastle, Nazi swastikas were defacing mosques. In the United Kingdom, Nazi Ian Forman were jailed for 10 years in a twisted plot to blow up mosques across the Merseyside, UK area. Nazi Ian Forman spoke of his admiration of Adolf Hitler; the judge who convicted him stated that his activities “were a continuation of Nazi warfare.” In Europe, this has included recent Nazi attacks and swastika defacing on Muslim mosques in Dormagen, Germany, in Leipzig, Germany, in Vienna, in Tyrol, Austria, in Stockholm, Sweden, in Provins, France (outside Paris), at a mosque construction site in Meaux, France. We have reported on similar Nazi group activities against mosques in Denmark and throughout Europe. In Australia, Nazis have attack Muslim mosques in Perth, Australia; Nazi attacks on mosques have included the Nazi terror group C18 that fired gunshots into the dome roof of the Suleymaniye Mosque. After the attack on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Muslim leader Asma Hanif stated “Someone who will demonstrate hate like this will do it in any community.” “Whether it was the Holocaust or slavery, the only reason it prevailed is because it was tolerated. We have the right and the authority to end it.”

— Nazi War on Homosexuals. Adolf Hitler’s Nazis attacked homosexuals, using a special Gestapo branch to order police to develop “pink lists” on homosexuals all over Germany. The Nazis then arrested 100,000 homosexuals for imprisonment, and also sentenced gay men to Nazi concentration camps. The Nazi concentration camps identified prisoners wearing a pink triangular patch (rosa Winkel) on their uniforms. They were beaten, abused, tortured, killed, and their bodies were mutilated, including castration of hundreds. At the Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp, Hitler’s Nazis performed medical experiments on homosexuals’ bodies as part of their monstrous torture on other human beings. Nazi terrorism against homosexuals did not end with their idol Adolf Hitler. Nazi terrorist groups continue to target and attack LGBT individuals and groups as part of the Nazi ideology. A Russian Nazi terrorist group used a popular social network to lure in gay teenagers, then kidnap them, bully, and torture them, making videos of their humiliation to share on the public Internet. Threats and targeting of homosexuals by Nazi terror groups within the United States and Europe remains a common theme within the goals of groups.

— Nazi War on Asians and Pakistanis. Adolf Hitler’s Nazis may have had allies in imperial Japan, but it is often forgotten that the Nazi and Axis war on Asians included attacks on Chinese and Philippines, including the torturing and raping of thousands of Philippine women. Adolf Hitler’s white supremacist racist views were that Chinese people were considered as “untermenschen,” or “sub-human.” The modern European and American Nazi adherents have used their white supremacist ideology to spread hatred against Pakistani and other Asian people, as part of their racist views. In the United Kingdom, this has included regular Nazi attacks on Pakistan immigrants, and crowds of Nazis in the streets of London screaming and taunting Pakistan people. In Greece, members of the Nazi party “Golden Dawn” stabbed a 27-year old Pakistani man Shehzad Luqman to death, with two Greek Nazis getting a life sentence for the murder of the Pakistan man. Over 70 of the Greek Nazis have been under investigation in connection for murder and belonging to a criminal group. Modern-day Nazi racist white supremacists view Asian and Pakistan people as “untermenschen” even today, and Pakistanis in Europe are regularly targeted for attack by Nazis.

— Nazi War on Disabled. Adolf Hitler’s racial supremacy included the killing of disabled individuals as being inferior to his racial master race. This included the murdering of 5,000 disabled children and also the development of a program to murder 70,273 disabled adults. In 1939, Hitler’s Nazi team encouraged parents of children with disabilities to bring the children to specialty pediatric clinics. But what Hitler actually had the Nazi hospitals do was to murder the disabled children through lethal drugs or starvation. When the Nazi child-killing program began, it was initially designed to murder infants, but the Nazis then increased the murder program to kill children up to 17 years of age. The “T4” program for adults created six installation of gas chambers for disabled adults throughout Germany, killing over 70,000 such disabled adults. The Nazis also murdered disabled patients in hospitals in mass shootings, as well as “gas vans” to murder disabled people in their occupied territories. An Italian study has shown that the Nazis killed up to 300,000 disabled individuals.

— Nazi War on Women. In addition to the Nazi war on Jewish women, Adolf Hitler built a separate Nazi concentration camp designed specifically for non-Jewish women at Ravensbrück, which was situated about 50 miles north of Berlin. Approximately 130,000 women were sent to this women’s concentration camp, 50,000 of which were murdered (gassed, shot, starved), including 2,500 women killed in Hitler’s gas chambers in one weekend. As reported by Sarah Helm, the Nazi attack on women included every walk of life: doctors, opera singers, politicians, prostitutes, members of the resistance. Women were worked to death, and those who became too ill were selected for extermination by being shot or sent to the gas chambers. The Nazis conducted medical experiments, including testing new ways to kill women, freezing them to death in the snow, and letting dogs rip into the women. They sexually abused the women with rape and infected some women with bacteria to experiment on their bodies, including “syphilis being injected into the spinal cord.” After Adolf Hitler, the Nazi terrorist war on women has continued, with Nazi violence against women around the world and throughout the United States, including the well-publicized rape attacks by Nazis in Massachusetts, Nazi rapist in Arlington, Virginia, and child molesters among Nazi leaders. The amoral Nazi ideology to prey on those they view as vulnerable leads them to such hate of women. The Nazi war on women has included the murder of African-American women by Nazis in the United States, including the recent terror attack in Charleston, South Carolina where six African-American women were murdered by terrorist Dylann Roof (a poster with the Nazi Daily Stormer group).

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It is not enough to support our shared universal human rights. We must also have the shared responsibility and activism to defy anti-human right campaigns, to challenge racist groups that reject these shared human rights, and to defy racist images of hate.

To people of conscience, to people with any human dignity and respect for your fellow human beings, whether you associate with any of these identity groups targeted by Nazis or not, we must stand to defy and reject the racist symbol of Nazism, those promoting Nazism, and those involved with Nazi organizations.

As Nazi white supremacists and those who seek to “normalize” their racist images have their free speech, we must also exercise our free speech, and condemn such racist symbols of Nazism and Adolf Hitler, without qualification, as immoral symbols of racist hate against all of mankind.

Silence is unforgivable.