A neo-Nazi carried out a demonstration at York railway station with a banner that said ‘Hitler was right’, a court heard today (Wednesday).
Alex Davies, 27, is accused of being a member of the proscribed organisation, National Action, by setting up an off-shoot following its ban in December 2016.
National Action was a terror group intent on “all-out race war” and which “celebrated” the murder of MP Jo Cox, his trial was told.
Barnaby Jameson QC, prosecuting, told Winchester Crown Court that the organisation aimed to complete the work of Adolf Hitler, and co-founder Ben Raymond had coined the phrase ‘white jihad’ – meaning ‘white terror’ – for the group in a “throwback to Nazi Germany”.
He said: “For the defendant and his cohorts, the work of Adolf Hitler was, and remains, unfinished. The ‘Final Solution to the Jewish question’, to use Hitler’s words, remains to be answered by complete eradication.”
The prosecutor said that the group would carry out flash demonstrations across the country including Liverpool, Newcastle, Swansea, Darlington – and York, during which they were seen “screaming Nazi-era proclamations through megaphones”.
He added: “In York the defendant can be seen shouting into a megaphone in front of a banner containing the words ‘Refugees not welcome: Hitler was right’.”
He added: “This was a tiny and secretive group of white jihadists arming themselves for direct and violent confrontation.
“They were not armchair neo-Nazis. The ultimate aim of the group was to exploit racial tensions as a means to an all-out assault on the democratic order.”
Davies, of Mirador Crescent, Uplands, Swansea, denies the charge of being a member of the proscribed group between December 17, 2016, and September 27, 2017.
The trial continues.
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