Vile ‘New Hitler Youth’ threaten gun violence and Jewish genocide as they recruit impressionable supporters online
As extremism grips Europe, young members of the UK far right are taking it in a more extreme direction than ever before
MATT QUINTON
YOUNG activist Jack Renshaw is the final speaker to take the floor.
Against a backdrop of patriotic flags, the audience has so far applauded politely as some of Britain’s most hardline far-right leaders detailed recent rallies.
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Even longtime far-right activists are shocked at the racist, abusive tirades of some young neo-Nazis
But even these hardened skinheads are left horrified as the 21-year-old launches into a disgusting hate rant, branding Jews “social vermin” who need to be “eradicated”, before declaring: “Hitler showed mercy to people who did not deserve mercy.”
This is no isolated incident.
The Sun can reveal vile Renshaw is just one of a fresh crop of young Nazi leaders — dubbed the “New Hitler Youth” — who have taken over Britain’s Far Right and wrenched it in an even more extreme direction.
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A fresh crop of young Nazi leaders called the new Hitler Youth are taking the extreme right even further than it has gone before in Britain
As well as openly promoting genocide, Renshaw and fellow leaders are building links with European racist groups and running a youth-focused recruitment drive attracting activists not yet into their teens.
Following the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox by right-wing extremist Thomas Mair in June, the Government is so concerned about the rise of National Action (NA) that an official ban will be passed on the flagship group this week.
Renshaw, who used to be a BNP Youth leader, is an NA spokesman.
The Nazi outfit is the first far-right group to become a “proscribed organisation”, with membership punishable by up to ten years’ jail, the same as religious terror sects such as Islamic State and al-Qaeda.
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Membership of the neo-Nazi organisation will be punishable by 10 years in prison, the same as ISIS and al-Qaeda
It is no surprise authorities are concerned.
Government figures show some parts of Britain have more people with far-right links referred to anti-radicalisation programmes than Islamic extremism.
More worryingly, 16 children under the age of ten were among almost 300 under-18s flagged up to counter-terror authorities over far-right concerns last year.
A march in Liverpool just weeks after Renshaw’s speech at the seventh Yorkshire Forum in Leeds saw around 100 neo-Nazis performing Sieg Heil salutes before flinging paving stones, bottles and fireworks at onlookers and police. One officer was left badly concussed.
Riot police eventually shut down the protest with the help of dog squads, making 48 arrests. Similar protests have taken place in Manchester, Newcastle and York in recent months.
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A Liverpool rally recently saw neo-Nazis performing Hitler salutes and shouting 'Sieg Heil'Credit: London News Pictures
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The Liverpool protest eventually had to be shut down by riot police
Even more seriously, NA member Zack Davies, 26, was last year jailed for life for attempting to behead an Asian dentist in Mold, North Wales, in a racially motivated attack.
Alex Davies, 22, of Swansea, is a founder of NA. He boasts online how he has received an award for racist public speaking and confirmed that his group put up Nazi stickers which have appeared in the Midlands.
In many cases, activists are less than half Zack Davies’ age.
The flow of British children to these groups is down to a recruitment drive from bodies such as Renshaw’s National Action.
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Swansea NA founder Alex Davies has boasted online that he has won awards for his racist public speakingCredit: Hope Not Hate
In a chilling speech obtained by The Sun, the well-spoken Renshaw, a former Manchester Metropolitan University student, lauds himself as a “good shot” with a gun and warns: “There will be violence.
“These invaders, these parasites, they’re not just going to roll over and let us remove them from our country. They will put up a fight and we need the killer instinct.”
Founded in 2013, NA, which damns opponents as “white race traitors” and begs followers to “swing the bat”, produces professional-looking web videos showing its marches through British towns.
The group — sometimes known as “National Acne” because its members are so young — have around 100 regular members, with eight regional subdivisions.
A mole in the group told The Sun: “Each meeting or protest will see around 30 youngsters getting together. Few can drive and some are too young to get into pubs, so they’re dependent on public transport and meeting in public places.”
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National Action member Jack Renshaw spoke at an event promising violence and saying he was a good shot with a gunCredit: Hope Not Hate
Supporters approach fellow youngsters on Twitter and Facebook and use those platforms, as well as unmoderated Russian website VK, to advertise their demonstrations, talks and twisted beliefs.
Groups including the British Movement and the Misanthropic Division, recruit youngsters in the same way. Other fascists opt to indoctrinate their own children instead of recruiting others.
Pictures obtained by The Sun from within Britain’s extremist scene show small kids innocently playing at far-right events while adults perform Nazi salutes in front of Third Reich flags.
Another shows a man on a day out with his daughter, his hand emblazoned with the “Odal Rune” design used by the Nazis.
Extremism expert Matthew Goodwin, professor of politics at the University of Kent, said: “Social media and flashy YouTube videos are a massive recruiting tool for today’s Nazi groups.”
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Far right sickos approach young people on social media to encourage them to join their twisted movementCredit: London News Pictures
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Inspired by Hitler's love of nature, the group even runs excursions to the Lake District
Inspired by the writings of Adolf Hitler, NA runs five Lake District excursions a year for its members.
Other groups have similar schemes. Dubbed “white jihadi training camps”, kids are subjected to savage initiation beatings from trainers.
Those who pass are drilled in mixed martial arts and knife fighting, often by specially-recruited leaders of eastern European racist groups.
And in a sickening parody of a traditional youth group, youngsters gather around campfires — yet sing Nazi anthem Horst-Wessel-Lied.
In exchange for hosting European thugs, British Nazis have extended their own reach across the continent.
In May, NA members were pictured giving Nazi salutes and holding up a group flag in the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany, where 56,000 people were murdered during World War Two.
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In another bid to raise their profile with young men and women, NA held a “Miss Hitler” beauty competition the following month.
The event was won by a brunette Scottish girl, her face partly covered with a skull bandana as she performs a Nazi salute.
The “dedicated member” of the organisation added that without her boyfriend she would be a “very lonely Nazi”. A masked runner-up is a trainee nursery teacher.
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The group recently ran a Miss Hitler competition to boost its profile with young people
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Women wore skull masks and performed Nazi salutes with their competition photos
Matthew Collins, from anti-fascist group Hope Not Hate, said: “Once these groups have teenagers under their spell they start gearing them up to carry out horrific attacks.
“They know these young lads hero-worship them and will do anything for them. They’re desperate to prove themselves, with many of them not just impressionable teenagers but also mentally unstable.
“Leaders will keep saying things like, ‘We just need a trigger to start a race war and get rid of the blacks’. They put loads of pressure on them to carry out these attacks, because the older ones don’t want to take the risk themselves.
“The Far Right in Britain is a tiny fraction of the size it once was but that means those who remain are the most dangerous elements of it.”
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27-year-old Ben Raymond is the founder of a website that calls for 'race war' and genocide against Jewish peopleCredit: Hope Not Hate
Renshaw, of Blackpool, is far from alone in his warped crusade to pervert impressionable minds.
University graduate Ben Raymond, 27, of Bognor Regis, West Sussex, is the co-founder of a website dubbed the “Nazi Facebook”, which declares: “Gas the k****, race war now.”
Pictures obtained by The Sun show the hardline Nazi wielding a rifle. Raymond once declared: “There are non-whites and Jews in my country who all need to be exterminated.”
Anti-racism campaigners have welcomed the decision to ban NA.
But with members constantly being pushed towards violence, it remains to be seen if the move will be enough to prevent another tragedy on Britain’s streets.
'I FEAR RACIST SICKOS'
JEWISH student Izzy Lenga, 23, was subjected to foul anti-Semitic abuse and even death threats at the University of Birmingham after speaking out against racist graffiti. She explained:
"In October last year a friend sent me a picture showing a sticker that had been posted on the campus showing a picture of Adolf Hitler and captioned ‘Hitler was right’.
"I found it really shocking. It was clearly to scare Jewish students and stir up hatred.
"A few years before, the police got involved after someone drew swastikas and wrote ‘Islam must die’ on university buildings.
"I highlighted the sticker by tweeting a picture of it and was sent thousands of vile tweets from people who supported the message.
"Some sent pictures with my face in a gas chamber, or of me with Hitler. Some were threats of violence or death. Many identified themselves as being part of National Action (NA).
"Then NA members posted videos of themselves on the campus, writing racist graffiti and hanging flags.
"Knowing they were there was terrifying. I had to be monitored by police.
"The initial flurry of online activity went on for a week but still happens.
"Some days I didn’t even want to leave the house.
"But letting them get to me is exactly how they win. Anyone suffering this kind of abuse should speak out and report it."
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