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The history of the Thule net

# German, right, interlaces

Klaus judge

When Tom butcher, of which "seizure of power spoke by use of technology", he meant 1990 the California leader of the "White Aryan Resistance" (WAS) not weapons -, but communication technology. At this time there were furnished personal computers (bulletin board of system or BBS) for right-wing extremists in the German-speaking countries already as "electronic mail boxes". Three years later were united it. Digital remanipulation. First far away of the InterNet.

The beginning

5. Jaenner 1919, Munich, Germany: The fitter Anton Drexler and the journalist Karl Harrer create the German labour party (DAP). Ideas and contents supplies apart from the currents with its conglomerate from anti-capitalistic, socialist, anti-Marxist and nationalistic conceptions, represented by Drexler, also the "Thule society".

The 1912 created ultranationalistische, anti-Semitic and lie-similarly organized medals is considered therefore as one of the forerunner organizations of the NSDAP. His active member Alfred rose mountain, a nationalistic Fanatiker and geifernder Antisemit, which look for its-same even in the third realm, writes the second Bible of the LV movement with "the myth of the twentieth century" ten years later. Harrer becomes here the establishment of its party lively. Rudolf Hess, Hermann Goering, Heinrich Himmler and Adolf Hitler hold contacts to the secret federation. Its organ, the "resident of Munich observer" becomes later the "Voelki observer". One year after their establishment, in February 1920, baptizes itself the DAP into "National Socialist German labour party" (NSDAP) over.

The 2. Generation

1981, Kassel, Germany: As German-language "branch" the "again-right" "Groupement de search et itself d'etudes pour la civilisation européenne" (GRECE)"Thule seminar understanding by Alain de Benoist e.V." after the French model of the "Nouvelle école" is created[ 1 ].

Already in their first publication, "the imperishable inheritance" of its "leader" Pierre cancer, does not leave the organization with the historically relationshipful name and the auxiliary designation "research and training community for the indoeuropaeische culture" a doubt about their world view coined/shaped by voelkischer Schwaermerei, racingism, bio logism, inequality doctrine and pseudo scientificness.
Numerous further publications, whose cover a swastika-similar keltische rune ziert, which becomes later the background picture of the Thule Web Pages, follow.
Unverhuellt ties "Thule seminar" in its publications to the "Neuheidentum" preached by rose mountain, which the chief ideologist of the third realm in numerous lampoons had developed. A "new Germanic faith" against the "scourge of the Judeo Christianity". After the words Goebbels ' a "philosophical Ruelpser".
The contributions in the Thule organ of "elements" circle, like also those of its publisher Pierre cancer in other publications (for instance in the racistic and sheet hostile to foreigners "new anthropology"), around the ranges of topics "eugenics", leaving teachings, foreigner and population politics.

"Thule seminar" and "elements" want - quotation - "consistently and decided:

- the so-called transatlantic value community attack;
- a heidnisch metaphysische alternative to the Judaeo Christianity compile;
- profess themselves to European race consciousness and it with the means of modern science investigate and justify;
- place themselves to the history of the past, without it to master to want...",
it means in a slogan to the magazine. From Kassel and/or holds the association, which wants to arrive "on the basis of the volklichen pluralismus at a new strengthening of the European values", held numerous contacts also to Austria, approximately to for forbidden neo-Nazi tables the ANR, to Konrad Windischs of right-wing extremist AFP and to the racistic "list of critical students" in vienna new building, who drive the relevant publications out in this country.

3. Generation: Communicate instead of organizing

Thule net - structure (summer 1995)

At the end of of 1992: Thomas Hetzer starts the computer mailbox resistance BBS under the alias Alfred Tetzlaff. Together with phantom BBS the German national net develops.

20 March 1993, attaining: The mailboxes of the German Federal Republic phantom BBS and resistance BBS switch themselves with further computers under the designation "Thule net" together[ 2 ].

Propaganda (in Karlsruhe, but with the same postal address as the Thule knot 1 resistance in attaining) and the nunmehrige Thule knot 2 power station in Weissenbrunn follow. Elias BBS in Rhine Neckar and the who wolf box, late Germania in Bonn, Empire (Winnenden, for months in "reorganization"), Osgiliath BBS and/or. Course of law BBS (Frankfurt), Esgaroth BBS (Munich) and further are added.

Summer 1995: Janus BBS in Munich (Sysop Thorin oak sign, correct name: Ralf Kottke) recommends right after the comrades to the entrance "the infiltration of the Greens" ("environmental protection = preservation of regional tradition!") and the who wolf renamed in Rattenfaenger (in Hameln) says good-bye after violent advertisement for the ultranationalistische sheet "nation" to the guest with "eternal Germany, holy realm!".

The Revisionistenbox SoRevo BBS supports the net from Berlin, from the outside unattainablly, accessible only for a "closed group", just like tearing wolf BBS (Weinheim). Way out BBS (the later Stoertebecker)arbeitete in Stavenhagen (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania) and after few months from the structure had already disappeared. Bulwark (Hamburg) and upper country (Munich) are "in the structure", just as the alleged boxes in the Hague, Rotterdam and Oslo. Outside of Germany only the east west White board ( Arnheim/NL) works. Digitally the Freedom BBS in Toronto (APPROX.) is led in the self descriptions, a contact is not not possible. Who wolf BBS in the Netherlands was temporarily the net attached. Since the seizure mailbox PC by the Netherlands police in May 1995 is interrupted the connection.

Structure and structure of all interlaced BBS are similarly, partially nearly identical. After the a selecting with a conventional terminal program and a successful Login expects the "comrade" with German realm Reich or rune-similar symbols and sub-titles like "mailbox against conformalism and spirit of the time" (resistance BBS: "... for a heterogeneous world of homogeneous peoples") or "information, discussions and programs for nationalgesinnte European" (Janus BBS) provided Title screen of the box after input of user ID (name) and password opens a selection screen.

Different boards ("message scopes") like "message (s)chreiben", "(R)egionalismus", "(N)ationalismus", "(Z)eitschriften", "N(e)ues thinking" or "[ C ] Sysop call - [ U ] software boards - [ F ] message of Sysop - [ P ] online programs - [ M ] message of other users - [ G ] texts & information - [ L ] other mailboxes" and the like are here to the user at the disposal. After typing the in parentheses letter new options appear.

Elias BBS - Message scopes (summers 1995)

After call of exists the possibility with other participants "multi-LINE-(C)-has" on-line to communicate. Joke-half here every now and then also the program "psi", which arouses at least the first ten lines of the dialogue the impression, announces itself at the other end of the line would be real humans.

Over technology and structure of the boxes those advises user the "Thule journal", for whose last and only second expenditure meanwhile for years one recruits.

From this, wes spirit child the right Computerfreaks from the outset are, made they no make no secret. The appointed elite is the digital arm of relevant models: "the name was selected following the Thule seminar", is called it in the self-manifestation of the box operators, "we feels the ideas sucked. ` new rights ' like Alain de Benoist, Pierre cancer, Arthur Korsenz, Sigrid Hunke, Detlev Promp, Guillaume Faye or Jean Haudry connected."

Thule Neusprech[ 3 ]: "identity" instead of "race purity", "tolerance" instead of "Jews ' raus!"

In the context of the Thule network we want to energize the conscious becoming of the personal and social identity, in order to arrive on the basis of the volklichen pluralismus at a new strengthening of the European values, their statement, strengthening and propagation the condition for surviving our abendlaendischen culture are. Thule net is the requirement of the hour!
A revolutionary movement comes out from the combination of an idea, a will, a strategy as well as an obligation. Because without ideas, within the world, which lives move and humans comprehensive opinion, there is itself no alternative.

(...)

The Thule network decreases/goes back to the will to tie the anthropologischen roots of Europe to its cultural again to protest as well as the identity of our peoples again and again so that their right to difference is justified during wiederentdeckung of its liberty. Objective is the new formulation of an historical program, strength its the peoples their actual fateful history carries out.

(...)

In our time of the alienation from cultural creator strength and tradition of a people it became essential, the roots of the identity to describe the mental self-preservation and self development of the particular as well as the different life and culture communities furthermore an argumentation basis for a founded argument with the spirit of incapacitating to manufacture dissolution and destruction.

(...)

Our new school announces a social objective, which wants to subordinate the economic questions of the political decision. She works at the same time on the structure of a science, which are faustisch, and a mythology, which do not forget their origins any longer.
Our new school wants to connect the memory to our furthest past with a future zukunftsschau, in order to remain faithful for the tragic life laws, from those Europe always grew.
Our new school wants to connect again the life act with the act, the habitat with the risk of acting, in order to remain faithful for the ethical laws, from those Europe always the authorization of its existence and his liberty pulled.
We are firmly convinced of the fact that the right is not to be separated to be free from the will to to be strong. The Thule network announces now a new section in the fight for the culture:

Of the tradition of a Isolde not-interrupted by the sources, fist and Mozart becomes fed that 21. Century the century of a European culture Renaissance its.
(...)
We work on trailblazing solutions for the cultural wiedergeburt of Europe; Independence of his politics, diplomacy and economics; lead a culture war against all Entwurzelungskraefte (the main enemy American way OF life is called)
(...)
Our goal is it to be present in each population centre with at least a Thule mailbox. If a participant wants to open a new mailbox, then before-installed mailbox programs are available, can which be adapted easily. With the installation the operators of the existing Thule mailboxes are gladly helpful.

After the few years of his existence however the power pack takers gave the diction up gradually despite the initial warnings of the operators new rights partially in favor of a clearer language. The "avant-garde of pluralistischen thinking" knows: "the German people was brought around his ' nietzschesche health '." Skinheads and anti- Antifa place today a property part of the texts. Also in the slogans of the "Thule seminar" "the German people body" seems again, "to the healing requires"[ 4 ].

The center: Node: 90:900/1@ThuleNet

BBS resisted - A choice screen (summer 1995)

In the Jaenner "Alfred Tetzlaff" (correct name formulated 1993: Thomas Hetzer), system operator in the center of the net standing resistance BBS, that among other things contributions from the right-wing extremists magazines "nation and Europe", "Europe in front", "identity" (from Austria) and "boy liberty"[ 5] makes, the goals available of its electronic activities, the "Undertaker" (correct name: Dock Dalek) for power station BBS one year later takes over:

"the mailbox has to fulfill completely determined tasks:
1) production and solidification of the contacts between national groups.
2) development of a data base with information for national activists. In particular the production of national gesinnten publications is to be promoted by supply by articles.
3) reduction of the pursuit pressure by the system, as communication possibilities are made available, which cannot be spied by the system - or only at substantial technical expenditure -. There are outstanding coding procedures, whose decoding for unauthorized ones is practically not possible."

Despite appointment on the alleged Intellektualitaet and scientificness of the so-called "Vordenker new rights" the administrators (Sysops) under reference to relevant criminal regulations, one, working usually under alias, remind like "... the use of unconstitutional characteristics, incitement of the masses, goading on to the race hatred and offenses (foreigner, Jew, denial of the Jew destruction)"in the mailboxes omit. At the surface the services give themselves nationalconsciously and "ethnopluralistisch", but comparatively harmlessly.
Vague asylum solicitor criticisms change information about "foreigner criminality rates" with prescriptions for brewing Met, invitations to Thule or computer courses with requests to support the work of "national gesinnter comrades" financially with radical suggestions on the AIDS fight (Germania).

Sensitive messages are coded with PGP ("Pretty Good Privacy"), one of the most reliable coding programs, at which already the American secret service CIA broke off itself the teeth. Only user, which carry a monthly "sharing of costs out", registered has after input of a password access to all boards with their meeting dates, book reviews and propaganda texts, guidances for bomb building (e.g. "Pyrotechnical text file") as well as to the telephone numbers of further knots.

As "guest" or a "visitor" logging in user is invited, into "national gesinnten itself" network "times to look around".

But despite all camouflage and caution the "concern kulminiert around the fortbestand of the western civilization (...), particularly within the ranges of its make-structural, particularly its egalitaeren, economististic and universalistic ` values '" (Thule self-manifestation) in slogans as "buys only with German enterprises!" (Germania), "eternal Germany, holy realm." (Rattenfaenger BBS) or "no German blood for stranger interests!" (power station BBS). A Rudolf Hess Gedenkseite precedes the log off from propaganda.

At the surface and for the guest however there is main the ideologists "new rights", which interpret ", for one on racingism justified" present global crises as "national identity crises cultural revolution in Europe" occur and solutions on basis to the "community" offer, which use the outdated technology of the FIDO Nets for communication and propaganda purposes apart from the current media of the time (Usenet, Internet-e-mail) further. Their comprehensive strategy of democracy-hostile and contempting for human beings alternatives should cover for Scandinavia and Austria with the help of deutschtuemelnder and neonationalsozialistischer Computerfreaks the entire Federal Republic until.

But the structure of the net - if also not completely as of yesterday as its contents - of the technical development is outdated. The speed of the individual stations stays with maximum 9,600 bit/min behind the standard, the surfaces is primitive and the offered information meager.
The fear presented by the operators themselves to let the net become not the Tummelplatz for "Krypto and Hollywood Nazi" (Thule self-manifestation) move by themselves right-wing extremists of all shades. Neo-Nazis and conservative ones, Rep trailers and "European heaths", "anti-anti-chamfer" and Rassenkundler, Austrian liberal ones and hexenanbetende Germanenkult Esoteriker, operating of an own Bulletin Board System named Ankh.
In the age of InterNet already nearly of becoming extinct been electronic kind of the private mailbox threatens remains as as allegedly from the outside uncontrollable medium of extreme right ones alive, even if so some box with boards is four months old, their last Mail or with altogether only 2,000 log in in over two and a half years (Germaniastatistics), thus on the average ridiculous three on the day, exactly the same in its klobigen child shoes were stuck, as the intended internationalization.

The subsequent years - development, separation, pursuit

1996: Several more well-known boxes stepped out of the net, the lines are dead. With Rattenfaenger public the ACCESS is closed, Germania requires a pedantic personal registration.

In the remaining further for the participation violently one recruits, worked on the optimization of the technology emsig and the connections to Austria are attached. There were in this country for many years - differently than for instance in Holland and Norway - no attached box, "nevertheless numerous comrades, who support, explained us" already in the summer 1995 of the course of lawSysop with the alias "Defender". To sluggish negotiations it came in the autumn of the same yearly to the connection: over Dissident BBS in Vienna also the comrades in the "ostmark" were interlaced. System operator: F-member Christian Anderle one. A half year later (May 1996) is possible no more entrance. The number to the box of the presumed violater of the Jewish cemetery in iron city does not exist any longer. Since that time Anderle one submerged and with international warrant of arrest was searched[ 6 ].

July 1996: For the "Thule net" its own Domain in the WorldWideWeb is registered. Web master is Ralf Kottke, Sysop of the Janus BBS, which places the sides on a server of the Canadian Providers ICA. Individual boards of the mailboxes are reflected in the Web. Over the "Thule gate" in reverse anonymous messages can be sent away into the boxes. In the subsequent years extensive Web Pages with numerous relevant texts and a large link collection develops.

March 1997: After violent discussions lasting for weeks Thomas Hetzer gives the exclusion of Elias BBS (Sysop: Juergen Jost) and Asgard BBS (Thekla Ko) admits, of Stoertebecker BBS (before times way out BBS) leaves from solidarity the net. Short time the three their "withdrawal" and the union to the "north land net" communicate later. Over "together (...) another, in principle open way [ too ]" (Jost), is the "Thule net" goes participating nevertheless "quasi a halfnational mechanism, [ its ] participant not by conviction in this network, but for completely different reasons." (Gothmag99, correct name: Thekla Ko).

"the possibilities of an international cross-linking are examined. Already contacts exist to a set of mailboxes abroad European ", are called it meanwhile still to the expansionist tendencies in the self-manifestation of the Thule operators. Into truth international cross-linking already went out for years far about Europe. The machines offered - beside contributions that the liberal one intimate magazine "aula" from Graz, whose former publisher and managing director are previously convicted Herwig night man because of remanipulation - texts of Spanish fascists, to French Le Pen fan, Irish "Ulster Movement" nationalist, ethnic German Poland and Russian, US-American neo-Nazi and even the right-wing extremist "new Dawn" in Australia (power station BBS) for the Download on the domestic non removable disk. But change more and more activists in the InterNet, refer the angestaubte BBS technology into their history.

Against the structure and its development parts of the German Antifa nevertheless still lead an embittered fight. In numerous critical publications the "Thule net" appears as prototypical for the hegemony efforts extreme rights in the data area. Despite one-digit user numbers of individual boxes. "the publication of data and telephone numbers we understand as call to the use of force", reacted to it the operators provoked and threatened with retaliation by force. Indices of so-called "Zecken", which bring the comrades with every now and then humorigen Mails to the incandescence, hold it ready for this purpose with address and telephone number to the call.

Diction and demands will remove increasingly more sharply and itself from the euphemistischen self-manifestations from the start times of the net. Clearly National Socialist contents are not exceptions, even on boards, like in propaganda BBS, accessible forguests, where one sets a digital monument for the "deputy of the leader". The messages are regularly read therefore by the German protection of the constitution. Imprudent Postings in plain language with date and map references led approximately in November 1995 to the arrest of the chairman at that time of the NPD Guenter Deckert.

to "to the right-extremist organization-spreading ' Thule net ' 14 mailboxes belonged end of 1995 on", are called it in the report of the German federal office for protection of the constitution 1995: a "goal of the ' Thule net ' is it to offer to the entire right-extremist spectrum the possibility of exchanging messages. By the good spatial distribution of the boxes over the federal territory each prospective customer is to supply itself economically - there the next box over short routings is attainable - with information and even messages to others to convey be able. Therefore the boxes exchange daily the new message among themselves and offer thereby country widely a uniform current information assortment. The central mailbox of the ' Thule net ' coordinates data exchange, the ' resistance BBS ', those from Thomas Hetzer (28) (alias: Alfred Tetzlaff is operated)."

the protection of the constitution reports 1996: "end of 1996 the ' Thule net ' 14 mailboxes were attached, of it three abroad (Canada, Norway, the Netherlands). It [ acts ] uses themselves to a large extent with this net with its approximately 150 users (Usern) still around a medium, that by ' Computerfreaks '."

While more been promoted right-wing extremists present their data on WorldWideWeb sides in the InterNet, on which millions other Netizens access have[ 7 ], own channels for the Internet Relay Chat to open and in numerous newsgroup world-wide discuss (alt.revisionism among other things), recruited and each individual Thule station recruits coordinated computers only for a handful - Germania 1995 about only for 7 -. Observers[ 8 ] estimated the number of the interlaced computers not completely two years after beginning of the unions on 30 to 40, which had certainly no correspondence in the reality and has. But the NSDAP had approximately as many members, when Hitler pushed to it.

Of them and rose mountain myth of the "purity of the blood", which wanted to have provoked "under the indication of the swastika" a "mental world revolution", and on its tradition "beherzten themselves Europeans" destined, in the Cyberspace broad-made themselves. The few trailers maintain there their cult: At the beginning of of 1998 contains the alias list of the "Thule net" of about 100 entries, the PGP Public key ring approx.. 30.

BBS resisted - Log off (summer 1995)

Note - Timetable:

Original text version: Autumn 1995;
Revised and extended version: July 1996;
Current version: March 1998.

Footnotes:

[ 1 ] See the report of Anton Maegerle, the new, old rights: The "Thule seminar" and its position in the right-wing extremist net of the Federal Republic of Germany, in: ASTA Antifa info. 2/91, University of Dortmund

[ 2 ] See: Martin Dietzsch/Anton Maegerle, "released" zone Thule net? in: Donation documentation archives of the Austrian resistance, the net of the hate, publishing house Deuticke, Vienna 1997

[ 3 ] Quotations from "Thule.txt", the self-manifestation of the net 1995

[ 4 ] Detailed to the Thule seminar and its activities in the InterNet: Heribert ski-nobly, the Thule seminar; in: Donation documentation archives of the Austrian resistance, the net of the hate, publishing house Deuticke, Vienna 1997

[ 5 ] Vgl. to the publications: Astrid is enough, which rights read - fifty right-wing extremist magazines, Beck' row, Munich 1993

[ 6 ] See: Klaus Zellhofer, "being supposed it me to hate". The case Anderle one; in: Donation documentation archives of the Austrian resistance, the net of the hate, publishing house Deuticke, Vienna 1997

[ 7 ] See e.g.: Net Surf Nazi - rights Netsurfer, by Thomas Seifert and Klaus Zellhofer, in falter 6/95

[ 8 ] So Peter Heindl, Positionen and Massnahmen of the security authorities in the fight against the neo-Nazism; in: Manual of the Austrian right-wing extremism, extended New edition, Verlag Deuticke, Vienna 1994, S. 618