“Neo-Nazi party given green light to tar­get school chil­dren” thelocal.de 2/6/2010.

The neo-Nazi National Demo­c­ra­tic Party will be allowed to dis­trib­ute CDs out­side schools with inter­views and music by party mem­bers because author­i­ties have no legal grounds to stop them, a report said Sat­ur­day.
The Fed­eral Depart­ment for Media Harm­ful to Young Per­sons said the disc merely con­tained polit­i­cal opin­ions, daily Süd­deutsche Zeitung reported.

The depart­ment there­fore found no basis on which to ban the disc, the report quoted direc­tor Elke Monsen-Engberding as saying.

The NPD is Germany’s lead­ing far-right party. It pro­motes an anti-immigrant agenda and is con­sid­ered by the country’s domes­tic intel­li­gence agency to be a threat to the constitution.

On its web­site, the NPD wel­comed the decision.

The party could “con­tinue to try to trans­mit its ideas to young peo­ple, school chil­dren and first-time vot­ers”, NPD mem­ber Claus Cremer said.

NPD legal affairs min­is­ter Frank Schw­erdt, who has served two prison sen­tences for incit­ing racial hatred and dis­trib­ut­ing Nazi pro­pa­ganda, also appeared on the web­site cel­e­brat­ing the decision.

Accord­ing to the NPD, the orig­i­nal demand to ban dis­tri­b­u­tion of the CD came from the north-east state of Lower Saxony.

In Novem­ber last year, Ger­man author­i­ties banned the sale of home-grown hard rock group Rammstein’s new album to fans under 18, for what it deemed explicit sado­masochist lyrics.