Neo-Nazism Facts for Kids

A demonstration organised by the youth movement of the right-wing National Democratic Party of Germany, in 2004

A group of neonazis commemorating Rudolf Hess. The banner reads: Martyrs never die

Some neonazis are skinheads.

Neo-Nazism means the ideology of some political groups who want to return to the beliefs and practices of Nazism after the end of World War II. Different groups have their own sets of beliefs and practices. Neo-Nazis believe in loyalty to Adolf Hitler, hating Jews (anti-Semitism), racism, belief in a Germanic master race, xenophobia (hating and fearing people from different countries), extremist nationalism, supremacy, militarism, and hatred of homosexuals (homophobia).

Neo-Nazis often use the symbols of Nazi Germany such as the swastika. Neo-Nazism has been linked to far-right political parties in England such as the National Front and the British Nationalist Party as well as being linked to the skinhead sub-culture.

Images for kids

Otto Ernst Remer, Wehrmacht general and leader of the postwar Socialist Reich Party
Otto Strasser, leader of the German Social Union, returned from exile to Germany in the mid-1950s.
Members of the National Bolshevik Party. "Nazbols" tailor ultra-nationalist themes to a native Russian environment while still employing Nazi aesthetics.
Young boy wearing a shirt with a Black Legion sign at a Thompson concert
Graffiti depicting the U symbol of the Ustashe during the Anti-Cyrillic protests in Croatia
Pekka Siitoin, Finnish neo-Nazi and occultist, photographed in 1976, wearing the IKL uniform, a blue tie and a black shirt
Neo-Nazi demonstration in Leipzig, Germany, in October 2009
"Hungaria Skins" with a flag evoking the Arrow Cross in 1997
The nearest Italy came to returning to fascism was the 1970 Golpe Borghese of commando veteran Junio Valerio Borghese.
ONR march in Poznań in November 2015
A neo-Nazi in Russia. The photograph was taken at an anti-gay demonstration in Moscow in October 2010.
Neo-Nazi skinheads in Spain
Ukrainian volunteer battalion members with neo-Nazi Wolfsangel symbol, 24 July 2014
British National Front (UK) marchers in the 1970s. It is a far-right, fascist political party in the United Kingdom.
Flag of the National Socialist Movement of Chile
National Socialist Movement rally on the west lawn of the US Capitol, Washington, DC, 2008