From: Gail Rolf [mailto:gail.rolf@lausd.net]

Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 9:59 AM



Please read this letter. Panzerfaust, a white power (white-supremacist) music company based in Minnesota, plans to target youth through the distribution of 100,000 racist and anti-Semitic CD's to schools and other locations throughout the United States. One of the newest tactics being used by neo-Nazi groups is to attempt to infiltrate schools and youth groups in a more covert manner.

Volunteers - including students - from white supremacist groups are expected to help distribute the CD, with the main focus on reaching kids between the ages of 13 and 19. Panzerfaust hopes to use the hard-driving music to recruit youth to its racist and anti-Semitic ideology, and plans to make the CD readily available on its Web site for just 15 cents, so that white supremacist groups can easily purchase large quantities to hand out to kids.

In hopes of disguising the content of the CD, Panzerfaust points out that it has been designed "to be ...inconspicuous and not overtly racial... so that it will be able to fly below the radar screen of teachers and other people..." A copy of the CD's track listing and prototype artwork, which can be used to help identify it, is included at the bottom of this message.

Panzerfaust sells thousands of CDs of white power music bands from the U.S. and abroad. The company is largely run by ex-members of the neo-Nazi group, National Alliance. Racist and anti-Semitic rock music is now a major recruitment tool and source of funding for hate groups, with annual sales bringing in millions of dollars to the hate movement. Recent FBI statistics underline the susceptibility of youth to hate: 33% of all known hate crime offenders are under 18; 29% of all hate crime offenders are 18-24; and more than 10% of hate crime incidents reported occurred at schools and colleges.

Please let as many people know about this as you can. If I can be of any further help, let me know.

Sincerely,

Kevin

Tracks on the Panzerfaust CD:

Bound for Glory: "Tornado"

H8Machine: "Wrecking Ball"

Max Resist: "Ballad of Johnny Rebel"

Bound for Glory: "Hate Train Rolling"

Brutal Attack: "Under the Hammer"

Final War: "Tales of Honor"

Bound for Glory: "Teutonic Uprise"

Before God: "The Last Line of Defense"

Youngland: "Waitin' for the Ride"

MidTown Boot Boys: "White Kids"

Max Resist: "Ghost"

Fortress: "Commie Scum"

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Kevin O'Grady, Ed.D.

Associate Director

Anti-Defamation League

Orange County/Long Beach Regional Office

kogrady@adl.org

www.adl.org