German Group
The German organisation, Exit Deutschland, was co-founded by the former leader of Nazism in what was East Germany, Ingo Hasselbach, and former police detective Bernd Wagner. Since 2004, the organization has been one of three pillars of the Democratic Culture Centre.
The strategies of Exit Deutschland are, according to Monika Lazar, spokeswoman for the Alliance 90/The Greens parliamentary group on strategies to combat the far-right, rewarded by nearly 300 former neo-Nazis leaving Neo-Nazi groups by 2008.
It is funded primarily by donations from Amadeu Antonio Foundation and Freudenberg Foundation. Also, it is supported through programs of the federal government, such as "Working and Living in Diversity", Xenos and "Youth for diversity, tolerance and democracy - against right-wing extremism, xenophobia and antisemitism," and by projects of the federal states of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Brandenburg. It was also a recipient in the years 2001 to 2005 of Stern's "Fighting right-wing violence support" initiative with donations.
In August 2011, Exit Deutschland prepared a trojan marketing campaign at Rock für Deutschland in Thuringia, a rock concert organized by the National Democratic Party where the organization handed out Neo-Nazi-themed free t-shirts to 250 out of 600 concertgoers. However, the t-shirts, when washed, contained a message which exhorted the recipients to break from Neo-Nazi groups and provided contact information about Exit Deutschland. When they realized what had happened, the NPD issued warnings about the t-shirts to concertgoers via SMS.
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