The founder of a neo-Nazi group that infiltrated the police and army is facing trial on charges of founding a second secret organization after it was banned by the government.
“Innocent-looking” student Alex Davis is a co-founder of National Action, which describes itself as a “group of white jihadists” and is dedicated to total racial war, the court heard.
The group encouraged members to join the police and army as they toured the country, launching “lightning demonstrations” proclaiming, “Hitler was right.”
National Action is a model for the Nazi SS bombers and was banned by the government in December 2016.
Image: Alex Davis salutes the Nazis in the execution chamber of the Buchenwald concentration camp in April 2016.
Davis, 28, of Swansea, South Wales, is facing trial in Winchester on charges of being a member of a banned National Action organization for setting up a branch after the ban.
Davis was “an extremist to an extremist,” the court said
Barnaby Jameson QC, a prosecutor, said the group had sought to “secretly put its people in positions of power”, and members included Ben Hanam, who joined the metropolitan police, and Miko Wehvilainen, a serving soldier.
He told the jury that Davis was a “particularly active recruiter” whose work as a “recruit sergeant” continued after the National Action ban.
“His neo-Nazi ideology was among the most extreme of all in National Action – Mr Davis was an extremist to an extremist,” Mr Jameson added.
While its co-founder, Ben Raymond, was a propagandist who acted as Josef Goebbels, Davis was similar to Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS, the prosecutor said.
National Action “Direct Return to the Original Nazism of the 1930s”
The court heard that Davis did not dispute that he was a co-founder and member of National Action before the ban, but said that the organization ceased to exist after the ban in December 2016.
“The evidence largely shows that not only did the accused remain a member of the continuity group after the ban, but he also founded his own offspring named NS131,” Mr Jameson said.
He described the National Action as “a direct return to the original Nazism of the 1930s”.
“For the accused and his cohorts, Adolf Hitler’s work was and remains unfinished,” Mr Jameson said.
Davis posed next to another man, giving a Nazi salute, in the execution chamber of the Buchenwald concentration camp, in an image that caused outrage in Germany, the court said.
In York, he was seen shouting into a megaphone in front of a banner reading “Refugees are not welcome: Hitler was right.”
Davis denies membership in a banned organization and the process continues.
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