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Die Wolfsbrigade 44, orDie Sturmbrigade 44, was a GermanNeo-Nazi organization.
The organisation was founded in 2016.[1] In early December 2020, the group was banned by the federal government ofGermany and law enforcement officials conducted a number of police raids on locations in threestates in connection with the ban.[2] The federal German government had also banned the group's symbols, such as a skull with two grenades that had the number 44 marked on them.[3] It was the fourth German far-right group to be banned in 2020.[1]
According toThe Times, Wolfsbrigade 44 members identified with awar criminal,Oskar Dirlewanger, whose brutality (rape, mass murder of children, and torture) was unusual even by the standards of theWaffen-SS.[1]
The website associated with German television news programmeTagesschau described the group as wanting to end democracy in Germany and establish a system of government based on theNazi regime. The group was reported to have referred to themodern German state as the "Jewish Republic".[4]
