NAZI HATE ROCK: A MACINTYRE INVESTIGATION
Donal MacIntyre investigates the secretive world of white power music and how the money made helps fund far right political organisations in many countries, including the British National Party in the UK.
In this documentary, produced by leading production company SMG TV Productions, the crew gained access to the men and women behind one of the most disturbing musical movements. It reveals how British neo-Nazis and skinheads plan to launch ‘Project School-Yard’ in Britain after a similar scheme was tried out in the United States. This will see members of the far-right actually handing out free CDs of white power music to pupils outside the gates of schools across the UK.
It also reveals how the British National Party has launched its own record label specialising in ‘patriotic’ folk songs which help fund the party as well as assisting in the recruitment of new members and the spreading of BNP propaganda. The record label is called Great White Records and intends to release some 13 albums this year. The BNP believes it could raise at least £100,000 from the project.
Featured in the film is Glasgow-based Steve Cartwright, a key member of the British National Party and “Blood and Honour”, a neo-Nazi organisation which organises white power music concerts throughout the UK. With strong links to Nazi organisations such as Ku Klux Klan, Combat-18 and the National Alliance, Cartwright is one of the main figures behind “Project School-Yard” in Britain.
British white power bands are all the rage with right wing fans throughout Europe. In the UK, the team follows one of the most infamous British white-power bands, Whitelaw, as they prepare for one of the biggest gigs of their career. The band are filmed on stage, with riot police surrounding the venue, performing as the forces of law and order move in to shut down their hate-filled act.
Also in the UK, the crew films gigs to which children as young as eight have been taken by their racist parents, and watch as youngsters give Nazi salutes to the white power musicians on stage. The film also contains shocking images of hate rock concerts in the USA where, thanks to the first amendment protecting freedom of speech, anything goes.
Shocking footage shows Steve Cartwright and one of the BNP’s most prominent leaders, deputy chairman Scott McLean, from Glasgow, giving Nazi salutes at a cross-burning ceremony in Scotland where racist songs are performed and sick jokes made about the death camp Auschwitz.
From Germany and Sweden, to Italy and America, this investigation uncovers the truth about the shadowy world of white power music. In Germany, for the first time on television, viewers are taken inside a white power concert where violence and racial hatred are the currency.
In Italy, we meet the anti-semitic singer Viking. In Sweden we film Saga, the so-called Madonna of the Far right. And in America we go inside the armed compound of one of the most powerful neo-Nazi organizations on earth – the National Alliance.
The National Alliance runs Resistance Records – a multi-million dollar outfit which distributes white power music across the globe. Husband and wife Eric Gliebe, a one-time boxer who fought under the name ‘the Aryan Barbarian’ and his wife Erica, a former Playboy Playmate and High Priestess of the First United Church of Adolf Hitler, are the team who run Resistance Records.
Apart from hate rock CDs with titles like “Klan Kompositions”, “Freezer full of Nigger Heads” and “Final Solution”, Resistance Records also sells computer games with titles like “Ethnic Cleansing” in which the player kills Jews, African-Americans and Mexicans. Resistance Record’s stock warehouse is home to merchandise worth at least $1 million dollars.
Nazi Hate Rock is a shocking and revelatory documentary which goes inside a closed movement desperate to promote its right wing hate philosophy but also keep its secrets. The documentary will be followed by a studio debate on race hate laws and freedom of speech.
Executive Producer Jim Manson said: “Nazi Hate Rock exposes some of the most dangerous organisations and key figures behind the Hate Rock movement in and outside the UK. I hope this truly shocking investigative film will help bring the disturbing truth behind white power music into the public eye and encourage debate.”
NAZI HATE ROCK is produced by SMG TV Productions for Five.
Executive Producer: Jim Manson
Director: Michael Simkin
Producer: Neil Mackay
Tx: Monday February 6th, 11pm on Five
For more information, contact:
Anna Bondesson, SMG Television press office, 0141 300 3830 or anna.bondesson@smg.plc.uk