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Norwegians crack down on role-playing Nazis

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Thursday, 4 January 2007, 09:54
A VIRTUAL COMMUNITY in role-playing game Cyber Nation which uses Nazi symbolism has attracted the ire of the Norwegian authorities.

The leader of Nordreich, one "Magnus Nordir" who styles himself as the Head of State of the Folkish Reich of Vinland, insists they are not really neo-Nazis.

However when Norway's national anthem was used in a video for the group on YouTube, the Norwegian Foreign Ministry tried to pull the item. has ridiculed Norway's Foreign Ministry for its action.

Cyber Nations is made up of tens of thousands of players, of which participate in several player created alliances of all different types of affiliations, be they conservative, communist, nationalist, libertarian, or "far right"," Nordir wrote.

Nordreich is a fictional organisation comprised mainly of politically minded teenagers that harbour a conservative/nationalist/European pride ideology, he said.

He said that they were not neo-nazis and a lot of its members were not even from Norway.

Nordir denied that the group was a conspiracy to recruit followers to a neo-Nazi organisation.

While it would not be the first time that a government has mistaken an online game for reality, Nordir does not answer some pretty important questions.

If your cyber-nation is not a bunch of Neo-Nazis it is strange that the real neo-Nazi group Stormfront defines Nordreich as a potential recruiting ground for its operations on its online forum. The white supremacist group admits that a number of members are active in Nordreich.

Nordir also has a nasty habit of attacking the Norwegian government claiming that it is all part of a "socialist agenda" to clamp down on free speech.

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Nordreich's Successor's outted as Nazis

After the alliance Nordreich was destroyed by other CyberNations factions, the most loyal members formed a new alliance: Norden Verein (NoV). This alliance is pretty similar to Nordreich.

Anyway, NoV is currently being destroyed by the rest of the CyberNations community after screenshots taken by a spy on their forums proved that real life neo-nazi groups were using CyberNations, protected by NoV, to recruit people anonymously to real-life neo-nazi groups.

posted by : Anonymous, 01 June 2008 Complain about this comment
The Facts on Nordreich and the Norden Verein

Nordreich was an intentional nationalistic ideology that went south when Nazis started joining. Nordreich had a strict policy with these members, saying that all of their ideas were to be censored for in and out of game character. Eventually, Nazis found loop holes in the rules established and took control of the alliance of Nordreich and the true Nordlanders evacuated and regrouped as the Norden Verein. 

The Norden Verein leader, who was leader of Nordreich before the turnover, did not want to make the mistake again. This time the same rule applied, but at any sign of Nazism the member who committed the act would be instantly banned from the site and be forced to leave the alliance. All was well until the New Pacific Order and it's allies planted false information about Norden Verein. The forces then turned on Norden Verein and most members disbanded from the group. There are a few, however, who still wear the name, even though it does not exist anymore.

this is what happened... any other gibberish that you read is uncredited and misleading. I was in both Nordreich and Norden Verein. My very dear friend and school colleague was the leader of these two alliances. I know practically everything that happened because of him and the messages of the meetings he had with the New Pacific Order and other alliances. The above person who posted, I believe, is in LSF, TPF, TGE, or another alliance who basically bow down to the New Polar Order and are sworn enemies of the Nordic Alliances. I have presented facts, while they presented ideas.

Now, to address the NoRwegian (old Nordreich joke) accusations that were on the first Nordland. When the video was created, Nordreich tried to find German soldiers marching to show Germanic pride and we had ones from World War I and World War II. As you know from the text books, The Nazi Party was the driving force of Germany in World War II and we cannot change that. If Nordreich was making an intentional Nazi propaganda flim saying that Norway should be controlled by Nazis, we would have put that in the video. Since we did not even think to have a connection of those two, Nordreich shouldn't have been at fault.

posted by : Nordic Follower, 25 September 2008 Complain about this comment
Lame

Wow, how idiotic!
I don't care for nazis myself, but some people are just ridiculous. "Stormfront" is not even a Nazi or nationalist GROUP. It is a forum WEBSITE. It's funny how absurd articles like this come out, and how many people believe the BS without even checking the facts for themselves. This is the mentality of most of those who play cybernations. I've seen good alliances and nations be taken down because of some paranoid liberal crackpots who are quick to point the finger at whoever they feel may even remotely hold an opinion that differs from their own. And to think, they actually call anybody other them themselves, nazis! (That's good for a laugh) They make up stupid reasons such as "oh, they are trying to recruit for real life Nazi groups", which is a complete and utter load of bull! REAL Nazis don't spend time playing stupid internet games. The likelihood that any of those who make nazi type nations or alliances are actually Nazis, is very slim at best. Some people just like to add variety to Cybernations, so it won't be all the same boring crap.

posted by : James, 27 October 2008 Complain about this comment
What a crock

Anonymous wrote: 

" Anyway, NoV is currently being destroyed by the rest of the CyberNations community after screenshots taken by a spy on their forums proved that real life neo-nazi groups were using CyberNations, protected by NoV, to recruit people anonymously to real-life neo-nazi groups."

There was NO recruiting.
There was NO 'real-life-neo-nazis' (lol absurd)

In NoV there was a Pakistani, two Jews, two Malaysians, and a Korean.

Not exactly the Hitler Youth type.

Don't believe the hype.

posted by : Darroch, 01 November 2008 Complain about this comment
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