There is a Torsten Bunk who is "Beisitzer der Itzehoer = Jugendspielmannszug". http://itzehoer-jugend-spielmannszug.de/Seite_2x.html And there is a Torsten Bunk who is into trainspotting? http://www.gaeste4.parsimony.net/gaeste26316/ And a Torsten Bunk who likes music... http://home.t-online.de/home/turbund/bspchng.htm and writes reviews = littered with references to Otto Strasser, Ernst J=FCnger, Oswald Spengler, et = al and whose language could generally be classified as "rechtsradikal". = English version at http://home.t-online.de/home/turbund/rvw.htm He is also quoted in another music review in http://www.dagdamor.de/kritik.html of equally dubious political = tendancy. Looking around, it would seem that his article that is mentioned in the = list of J=FCnger links on http://www.ub.fu-berlin.de/~goerdten/juenger.html, = ie at http://www.n-a-f.com/EK/juenger1.htm has been taken from the net. The reason for this becomes clear when we see that n-a-f stands for "Nationale Aktionsfront" and EK stands for "Europakreuz", a right-wing = music fanzine. The general tendancy we can see is that what we have got here is an interesting example of the crossover between the German Darkwave/Gothic scene with the New Right. Irritatingly, a lot of the links are broken - either the URL's or their content have been disabled by the ISPs. Sometimes this will be in = response to a court order due to anti-constitutional content, sometimes out of = fear of such an order. Whilst I cannot condone any of the political positions held by Bunk and = his associates, the sheer transience of the material produced is quite = alarming from an academic or research point of view. Whilst Google caches = material for a while, most often it simply disappears and cannot be recalled and = is thus annihilated as an object of legitimate enquiry. From a personal = point of view, that is, in a way, more disturbing than the content... [controversial point, I know]. Regards, John
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