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A Nazi skinhead from Germany

Nazi skinheads are a far right subculture that developed in the United Kingdom around the late 1970s.^{[citation needed]}

Typically racist, anti-Semitic, anti-islamic, white supremacist, anti-gay and neo-Nazi, the subculture emerged at a time when the UK was experiencing a second wave of the punk subculture. Nazi skinheads are more often described as a gang culture than other subcultures because of their reputation for attacking non-whites, Muslims, Jews, gays and left-wingers on the street and at political demonstrations. They are sometimes involved in white nationalist political organizations, such as the People's National Party (Russia), the National Democratic Party of Germany, the British Peoples Party and the National Socialist Movement of Denmark.

Nazi skinheads are often called boneheads by traditionalist skinheads and Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice.

Manifestation in Berlin supportive of the NPD, dominated by skinheads

The original skinhead subculture started in the late 1960s, and had heavy British mod and Jamaican rude boy influences — including a love for ska and soul music.^[1][2] The original skinhead scene had mostly died out by 1972, and a late-1970s revival came partly as a backlash against the commercialization of punk rock; coinciding with the development of the 2 Tone and Oi! genres.^[3][4][5][6] Despite the biracial origins of the skinhead culture and the non-racist nature of the first Oi! bands, the skinhead revival in Britain included a sizeable racist nationalist faction, involving organizations such as the National Front, British Movement, Rock Against Communism and Blood and Honour. Because of this, the mainstream media began to label the whole skinhead style as neo-Nazi.

The racist subculture eventually spread to North America, Europe and other areas of the world. After the movement spread to the United States, some racist skinheads in that country became involved with groups such as Church of the Creator, White Aryan Resistance and the Hammerskins (a group that then spread to other countries). Nazi skinheads have become numerous in formerly communist Eastern European countries, perhaps as a reaction to decades of communist totalitarianism. The Russian newspaper Mosnews estimated in 2005 that there were up to 50,000 Nazi skinheads in Russia. This is almost the same figure as the estimate of up to 70,000 for the rest of the world.^[7]

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1. White Power version of the Celtic cross
2. Odal Rune (Nordic culture)
3. White fist (White Power)
4. Iron cross with Swastika
5. SS
6. Totenkopf


There are also coded symbols, such as the number 88 (for the eighth letter of the alphabet — HH for "Heil Hitler"), and 18 (AH for "Adolf Hitler"). Number 14 is used to symbolise the Fourteen Words; "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children".

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