German neo-Nazis are training with the far-right Russian Imperial Movement
(RIM) to gain proficiency in more advanced military-style tactics, accordin


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Russian Imperial Movement Provides Weapons & Combat Training To German
Neo-Nazis

(New York, N.Y.) – German neo-Nazis are training with the far-right Russian
Imperial Movement (RIM) to gain proficiency in more advanced military-style
tactics, according to areport
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by German news magazineFocus
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. The RIM, which wasrecently
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designated by the United States as Specially Designated Global Terrorists, is
said to have hosted extremists who belonged to the youth wings of two German
political parties considered to be neo-Nazi movements, theNational Democratic
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The Third Path. The training reportedly took place at a camp known as Partizan
near Saint Petersburg, where former Russian military members conduct trainings
on bombmaking, marksmanship, combat medicine, and small-group tactics such as
assaulting and clearing buildings.

Additionally, the RIM
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supported the efforts of neo-Nazi groups in Scandinavia. Two members of the
Swedish, neo-NaziNordic Resistance Movement
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Viktor Melin and Anton Thulin, underwent the Partizan military training course
before carrying out a series of bomb attacks against refugee centers in Sweden
in January 2017. During their trial, the prosecutor stated that “attending this
paramilitary camp in St. Petersburg was a key step in Melin and Thulin’s
radicalization.…We also believe it may be the place where they learned to
manufacture the bombs that they used in Gothenburg.”

Matthew Heimbach, founder of the U.S.-based Traditionalist Worker Party
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(TWP), met RIM representatives in the United States in September 2017.
Heimbach said of the meeting, “We’re really aiming to have TWP kind of be the
representative of America at the future gatherings of the Russian Imperial
Movement.” According to Heimbach, he and the RIM have been in contact since at
least 2015. Heimbach was a central organizer of the August 2017 Unite the Right
protest in Charlottesville, where a vehicle attack by a white supremacist
killed one and injured at least 30 others.

The RIM, its paramilitary branch known as the Imperial Legion, and the
Partizan training course are all able to attract foreign interest through their
online outreach, largely conducted via their official VKontakte (VK) pages,
which have more than 30,000 followers. The group makes no attempt to hide its
training operations, publicizing its address on the Partizan VK social media
page, and many foreigners have reportedly taken the course after learning about
it online. Partizan runs for one to two weeks, training groups of between 10
and 15 men at a time.

To read CEP’s Russian Imperial Movement (RIM) resource, please click here
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