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The day the NF & KKK hung blacks in effigy in Swansea

360 | 11.03.2013 03:30 | Anti-racism | Social Struggles | Liverpool | Wales

On 19 Feb 1941 the Nazis arrived over Swansea - the Luftwaffe injured 400 locals and killed 230 innocent Welsh people. On the 9 March 2013 the Nazis came back...

Swansea Blitz 1941 + Swansea NF rally 2013
Swansea Blitz 1941 + Swansea NF rally 2013

Swansea NF demo organiser Luke Pippen
Swansea NF demo organiser Luke Pippen

Luke Pippen at Swansea NF rally with Shane Calvert from the NWI
Luke Pippen at Swansea NF rally with Shane Calvert from the NWI

Nigel Sullivan at NF rally & making Nazi salutes with KKK at Blood & Honour gig
Nigel Sullivan at NF rally & making Nazi salutes with KKK at Blood & Honour gig

KKK make Nazi salutes & lynch golly at Blood & Honour Swansea concert
KKK make Nazi salutes & lynch golly at Blood & Honour Swansea concert


On 19 Feb 1941 the Nazis arrived over Swansea - the Luftwaffe dropped over 1,200 high explosive bombs and 56,000 incendiary devices, destroying over 800 homes, schools, businesses and churches, damaging 11,000 buildings, injuring 400 locals and killing 230 innocent Welsh people.

On the 9 March 2013 the Nazis came back. The National Front organised a "White Pride" (sic) rally in Swansea, followed that evening by a concert of the Nazi music organisation Blood & Honour, which takes its name from the motto of the Hitler Youth.

Despite drawing Nazis from all over the UK, predictably the NF rally in Swansea was tiny, but during the Blood & Honour concert hooded Klansmen made Nazi salutes and lynched a giant golliwog to mock victims of racist murders and to symbolise their intention to murder black people.

The NF rally and Blood & Honour concert were both organised by David and Bryan Powell (who also performed in the concert) and Luke Pippen
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Photo 1 - Swansea Blitz 1941 + Swansea NF rally 2013 (demo organiser Luke Pippen seated left with goatee beard, co-organiser Bryan Powell standing with red jacket, also note Nazi salutes)

Photo 2 - Swansea NF demo organiser Luke Pippen (Nazi tattoos plus Swastika flag also bearing the slogan Blood & Honour and name of the Nazi rock group Skrewdriver)

Photo 3 - Luke Pippen & Shane Calvert (from EDL splinter group North West Infidels) on the NF "White Pride" rally in Swansea, 9 March 2013

Photo 4 - Nigel Sullivan on the NF "White Pride" rally & making Nazi salutes with the KKK at the Blood & Honour concert in Swansea, 9 March 2013

Photo 5 - KKK hands raised (top), making Nazi salutes & lynching golly (centre), plus small photos (bottom) of KKK + David Powell (red shirt, guitar) and Chris Lewis (blue dungarees, banjo) performing at the Blood & Honour concert in Swansea
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 http://www.welshicons.org.uk/news/swansea/service-of-commemoration-marks-70-years-since-the-swansea-blitz/

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