My friend whose family was beaten to death by gestapo

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14. The hate is aleady helping to embolden groups like Atomwaffen Division

One if their members is the murderer of Blaze Bernstein.

Samuel Lincoln Woodward, the teenager who was recently charged with the brutal murder of the 19-year-old Jewish student Blaze Bernstein, was an avowed member of a growing American Nazi organization — a group that has quickly shot to the forefront of the white supremacist movement with its dark promises of violence and an impending race war.

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What Is Atomwaffen Division?

Atomwaffen Division is an American Nazi group that was formed around 2015, growing out of an international fascist website called Iron March. Over the past months it has expanded, drawing members from the boom of the “alt-right,” the online white identity subculture that has spread into the mainstream over the past years.

But while benefiting from the spread of white identity politics online, the organization derides the softer strains of the “alt-right” as weak and ineffective. AWD, as the group is known, wants to spark an all-out race war — and is training members in violent combat in cells across the country.

Even within the racist and ant-Semitic “alt-right,” this group represents the most hardcore and explicitly violent fringe. White nationalist Richard Spencer, who infamously led a roomful of supporters in a celebratory Nazi salute after Donald Trump’s election to the presidency, pales in comparison. Spencer, while advocating the creation of a white-only ethnostate, does not call openly for violence. With AWD, gone are the intentionally offensive memes of Pepe frogs. Even Andrew Anglin, the editor of what the Southern Poverty Law Center previously called the internet’s top hate site, appears tame alongside this group.

AWD makes it clear on its website that the group is not interested in what it calls “keyboard warriors” — instead it wants the true “radicals.”

Read more: https://forward.com/news/393099/what-is-atomwaffen-division-the-nazi-group-tied-to-the-murder-of-blaze-bern/