The "Wiking-Jugend" (WJ, "

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youth") was a German

Neo-Nazi Neo-Nazism comprises the post–World War II militant, social, and political movements that seek to revive and reinstate Nazism, Nazi ideology. Neo-Nazis employ their ideology to promote hatred and Supremacism#Racial, racial supremacy (ofte ...

organization modeled on the

Hitlerjugend The Hitler Youth (german: Hitlerjugend , often abbreviated as HJ, ) was the youth organisation of the Nazi Party in Germany. Its origins date back to 1922 and it received the name ("Hitler Youth, League of German Worker Youth") in July 1926. ...

. The

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(SRP) was outlawed in 1952, together with its youth organization "". The Neo-Nazis went underground in numerous fragmented follow-up organizations, and the former Reichsjugend, the and the eventually coalesced again in the form of the "Wiking-Jugend". The group was active in the pan-European nationalist

New European Order The New European Order (NEO) was a neo-fascist, Europe-wide alliance set up in 1951 to promote pan-European nationalism. The NEO, led by René Binet and Gaston-Armand Amaudruz, was a more radical splinter group that broke away from the European ...

, although they quit in 1955 over the issue of

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. The organization was founded by Walter Matthaei, and thereafter took on a dynastic tendency, being headed in turn by Raoul Nahrath, then his son Wolfgang, and then his son Wolfram. Until 1991, Stolberg (Rhineland) was the headquarters of the WJ. From 1991 to 1994, it was in

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. The Wiking-Jugend was outlawed as unconstitutional on 10 November 1994 by the North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry of the Interior.

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