A British National Party activist who claims he is a respectable businessman is really a Nazi fanatic who dresses in German uniform and flies a swastika flag.Window firm boss Karl Newman, 47, a candidate for the far-right BNP in Thursday's local elections, denies he is a racist or Nazi sympathiser in campaign leaflets. But, in fact, he dresses in World War Two Wehrmacht uniforms and has a sick fascination with Hitler.
He has spent years restoring two wartime troop carriers built by Jewish concentration camp labour. One has a giant swastika on the bonnet and he flies another of the Nazi flags from the back. Newman even takes out six-year-old son William in the vehicle at weekends.
Pictures on his website show him in Nazi uniform. In one a cardboard cut-out of Hitler is driving one of the vehicles, called Kubelwagens.
Confronted by the Sunday Mirror, he said: "I am aware they were built by slave labour - but I can't do anything about that."
Newman, standing in Greenlands ward of Redditch Council in the West Midlands, added: "OK - so the BNP is only for white people, but that does not mean I am a racist." Claiming to be a Christian, he said his Nazi obsession was "just fun".
Labour councillor Mark Shurmer said: "These pictures are disgusting."
Sunday Mirror
3 comments:
'so the BNP is only for white people, but that does not mean I am a racist'
Er, I think it does actually.
Even long-time BNP supporters think this guys a dick. This is by brummie from Stormfront
'I read this article earlier. Though the guy offers some explanation and actually condemns the Nazis "if I thought the BNP were anything like the Nazis I would run a mile" it still looks like a disaster to me. I mean for gods sake the guy has got a Nazi Volkswagen sitting on his drive complete with swastika spare tire cover. Did someone not notice this before putting the guy up for election? Did they not realise what would happen? I know the BNP are struggling to find candidates but ..... This is a big set back and Reditch was looking very promising for the BNP with a perfect stood one won one record. Reditch BNP seem to be particularly prone to this sort of "mess", it needs sorting.'
Ha. Too late.
Sounds like another bitter and twisted Mark Collett
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