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Udo Voigt, the leader of the far-right German National Democratic Party speaking to reporters before the general party congress in Berlin on Saturday. (Reuters)
Last update - 19:06 11/11/2006
German far-right NPD party meets in Berlin amid protests
By The Associated Press

A German far-right party opened its national party congress Saturday in the capital as several hundred protesters, including members of most mainstream parties, demonstrated outside.

Some 600 members of the National Democratic Party, known by its German initials NPD, came together to open the weekend congress in the northwestern Berlin district of Reinickendorf, according to organizers.

Outside, some 300 demonstrators chanted "Nazis out" through bullhorns and politicians from the Christian Democrats, Social Democrats, Greens and Left Party all gave speeches. Greens politician Volker Ratzmann said all of Berlin stood together against "old and new Nazis."
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Barriers kept the demonstrators away from the NPD supporters, and there were no incidents of violence reported.

Going in to the meeting, NPD party leader Udo Voigt rejected any affiliation with the Nazis, and told reporters his party is simply concerned with trying to solve the problems Germany faces today.

"Hitler is dead," he said.

The two-day congress was given the go-ahead on Friday night by a Berlin-Brandenburg administrative court, which ruled that Reinickendorf's concerns that the meeting would lead to a shutdown of the area's center were unfounded.

Former Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's government tried to ban the NPD, but the move was blocked by the Supreme Court when it was discovered that the government's case was based in part on inflammatory statements made by paid government informants.

Though it is a fringe party at the federal level, never garnering more than a handful of votes, the NPD has made inroads at the state level and now holds seats in two state parliaments.

The party holds a national congress at least every two years
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