Denmark: New Blood and Honour group
01 January 1999
Until last year the Danmarks Nationalsocialistiske Bevaegelse (DNSB) was the only functioning nazi organisation in Denmark. However, a split in the movement has led to a Blood and Honour (B&H) group being formed. This became apparent after a private New Year's party was revealed to be a nazi rock concert with participants from several countries. The event took place in a small village on the island Fyn.
The DNSB have their party headquarters in a suburb south of Copenhagen. From there they run a radio station, publish a magazine and organise activities such as the annual march to commemorate Rudolf Hess in August. The chairman of the DNSB, Jonni Hansen, confirmed the split in the newspaper Fyns Amts Avis but declined to give further information on the background: "I am not interested in throwing gasoline on the fire", he said. In another paper, BT, he said that he would not give any details about the split since he would not wash his dirty laundry in public. According to this source there had been dissatisfaction with the old leadership for some time; some members regarded them as "coffee club" nazis, incapable of organising direct actions.
According to figures from the UK Blood & Honour homepage several hundred fascists participated in the New Year concert. While this has not been confirmed by independent sources, local residents did confirm to the Danish press that there were participants from several countries.
One of the main speakers was the German-Norwegian nazi, Erik Blucher. Some years ago he moved from Norway to the UK but, during a trip to Belgium, the UK authorities excluded him from returning. Since then he has been living in Sweden, where he has become a key figure in the distribution of neo-nazi CD's and videos organised through the NS88 organisation (see Statewatch, vol 7 no 2). He was also a central figure in the production of a series of hate videos, one of which identifies four Danish antiracists and "executes" them on the video (see Statewatch, vol 8 no 2). After the concert Blucher thanked the organisers on the B&H homepage.
The nucleus of the B&H group is living in the village of Kaedeby on Langeland island (next to Fyn) where their violent behaviour has caused fear among the locals. One of the nazis is in jail charged with assaulting a passerby. In the city of Svendborg, in the southeast of Fyn, members of the B&H gang smashed-up a local pizzeria owned by an Iranian refugee. According to the local press the police know their identity from several other violent incidents that have taken place.