The III. Path

The III. Path or The Third Path (Ger: Der III. Weg, Der Dritte Weg) is a minor far-right and neo-Nazi political party in Germany.[4][5]

The III. Path The Third Path Der III. Weg Der Dritte Weg
Chairman	Klaus Armstroff
Founded	Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany September 28, 2013 (2013-09-28)
Split from	NPD FNS
Headquarters	Bad Dürkheim, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Membership	580 (December 2019)[1]
Ideology	Neo-Nazism Strasserism [2][3]
Political position	Far-right
Website
der-dritte-weg.info
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It was founded on September 28, 2013 by former NPD officials, and activists from the banned Free Network South. They have ties with Assad's government in Syria, Hezbollah in Lebanon,[6] the National Corps, Right Sector and Svoboda in Ukraine[7], Nordic Resistance Movement in the Nordic countries[8] and the National Socialist Focus in Turkey. Their founder and chairman is Klaus Armstroff.[9] The party mostly operates in Thuringia, Bavaria and Brandenburg.[10]

A group of people bearing Der Dritte Weg flags marched in through a town in Saxony on 1 May 2019, the day before the Jewish remembrance of the Holocaust, carrying a banner saying "Social justice instead of criminal foreigners". The Central Council of Jews said that the state government should ban such marches if it were serious about tackling right-wing extremism.[11] The Third Path stood in the 2019 EU elections.

See also

• Far-right politics in Germany
• Neo-Nazism
• Neo-Nazism in Germany
• Völkisch movement

References

1. "Zahl der Rechtsextremisten steigt um ein Drittel". www.tagesspiegel.de.
2. Rödl, Jakob. "„Der III. Weg" – eine rechtsextreme Kleinstpartei aus dem Neonazi-Spektrum".
3. Germany, Süddeutsche de GmbH, Munich. "Aktuelle Nachrichten, Hintergründe und Kommentare - SZ.de". Süddeutsche.de.
5. "Wohin der Weg auch führt... | Linksnet". www.linksnet.de.
6. "German neo-Nazi party builds alliance with Assad and Hezbollah". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com.
7. "German neo-Nazis march with Ukrainian nationalists in UPA march". October 15, 2018.
8. "Geplante Rede von Julian Bender in Schweden". October 3, 2017.
11. "Germany says half of extreme right 'prone to violence'". BBC News. 3 May 2019. Retrieved 4 May 2019.