German Racism?

Blonde seeks her Mr Reich

The Australian/AFP, 27 September 2002

Vienna: Women. Do you find the world is populated by too many pinko, lefty greenies and not enough real me? Are blokes scared by the swastika on your apartment wall?

Help is at hand. GermaniaFlirt is a website  for far-rightists, neo-Nazis and German nationalists from Austria, Switzerland and Germany who want to find that special someone.

Julia-Alexa, a 19-year-old blonde waitress from Vienna, is looking for her "Mr Reich" on Germania Flirt.

"Nineteen-year-old girl seeks nationalist-minded bloke from Vienna who is not just looking for one thing," her lonely heart advertisement reads.

She votes for the Freedom Party and her favourite singer is Frank Rennicke, described by the Austrian Resistance Archives research institute as "the singing neo-Nazi".

"Seeking a Germanic-Nordic girl aged 18-28 from the southern German region," writes 28-year-old Andreas,who has short blond hair and grey-green eyes.

"You should be a German nationalist or right-wing and have a certain class (no skinhead birds please)," says Andreas, who is shy, romantic, intelligent, active and chivalrous, with a wide range of interests.

Fifty-two men and 20 women are currently looking for love on Germania Flirt.

[Note the irony of the German word's two meanings: Reich = empire; also 'rich'!]