Landser

RAC

Landser was the most prominent neonazi (rac) band in Germany for a decade. The band was founded in 1992 in East Berlin, by Soeren Brauner, Horst Schott and Andreas Lenhard, originally as Endloesung (Final Solution, the Nazi expression for the extermination of all Jews in Europe). Singer Michael Lunikoff Regener joined it later in 1992 (at first on guitar), and the name was changed to Landser - an old word for a soldier (a common foot-soldier). The band was associated with two neonazi groups, the Nationalistischer Front (Nationalist Front), and the Sozialrevolutionaerer Arbeiterfront (Social-Revolutionary Workers Front), which split from the NF in mid-1992. Schott was an SRA organiser. Regener came from a loose neonazi group, Die Vandalen, dating from the mid-1980's, when East Germany was still Communist. Landser reached cult status, among the large neonazi skinhead scene in post-reunification East Germany, in the 1990's. The uncompromising racist lyrics, and glorification of Nazi Germany and its military, were illegal under German law, and the band operated underground. Recording and distribution were organised from outside Germany, and the band appeared only once at a public concert. In the end, in March 2005, after three years of proceedings, the Federal Criminal Court declared the band to be a criminal organisation - the first band to be outlawed in this way. The court also confirmed a Berlin Criminal Court sentence on Regener - 2 years and 10 months in jail, for forming ...