A U.S. activist living in Germany learned from the U.S authorities that Atomwaffen Division, a neo-Nazi terror group, threatened her life.
She moved to the country after receiving threats from the U.S. far-right. However, in November 2018, U.S. federal authorities warned the German Federal Criminal Police that an AWD member had arrived in Germany with the purpose of doing her harm.
The activist, whose name is not being held back for her safety, was given a few measures on how to best protect herself, such as erasing her address from official government records and be vigilant when going out at night. She has been an extremely vocal far-right critic and has taken part in numerous well-known anti-fascist protests.
In the German police messages, she was urged to call them immediately. The transnational warning, which was first reported on by Der Spiegel, corroborated her account.
According to the activist, she feels the international concerns were concerned when the person gained entrance into the country. German police informed her they knew who the person was, who he was meeting with and the person behind the threats. They couldn’t, however, tell her where this person was.
Recently, a suspected American AWD member was denied entrance into the country.
The activist opted to go public with her story with the rising incidents of death threats and assassinations extremist groups happening by extremist groups in the country and the operational growth of the accelerationist neo-Nazi group.
Atomwaffen Division Deutschland allegedly emailed German Green politicians Claudia Roth and Cem Ozdemir death threats. The group alleged it had a list of people targeted for assassination. The group also reportedly put up flyers on German university campuses and homes throughout one Turkish neighborhood.
A far-right extremist admitted to killing Walter Lubcke, a pro-refugee Christian Democrat politician.
Another neo-Nazi group in Germany, Nordkreuz, was found, in June, to be in possession in a “kill list,” containing names of politicians they saw as pro-refugee.
A far-right anti-Semite group carried out an attack in October on a Halle synagogue, using homemade explosives and guns.
The AWD group has been tied to about five U.S. murders, with members facing a plethora of charges from alleged bomb plots and weapons offenses. AWD members are not permitted to travel to Germany and Canada.
AWD started in the U.S. as part of the neo-Nazi subculture, which grew out of the Iron March forum. Anonymous activists leaked the whole Iron March archive, which revealed the website was a glue for a worldwide network of extremists.
The Anti-Defamation League said group members have embraced the accelerationism idealism, which operates on the premise of using violence to speed up society’s collapse. The man charged in the 51 deaths of Christchurch in March subscribed to that philosophy.
The activist has urged the U.S. government and authorities to treat all terroristic threatening crimes as international terrorism.