{{Short description|International neo-Nazi terrorist network}} {{Cleanup|reason=too many listings of individual crimes vs actual content on the group, overreliance on primary news sources and legal documents, bad structuring|date=May 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2019}} {{Use American English|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox militant organization | name = Atomwaffen Division | image = {{multiple image | border = infobox | total_width = 320 | image_gap = 20 | image_style=border:none; | caption_align=center | image1 = Flag of Atomwaffen Division.svg {{!}}border | caption1 = Flag | image2 = Atomwaffen Division logo.svg | caption2 = Logo | perrow = 2 | align=center }} | logo = Atomwaffen Division logo.svg | logo_size = 100px | caption = | other_name = National Socialist Resistance Front<ref name="Rebrand2"/><br />National Socialist Order<ref>https://www.nationalsecurity.gov.au/what-australia-is-doing-subsite/Pages/National-Socialist-Order.aspx</ref> | country = United States (country of origin) | leader = Brandon Russell (2015–2017)<br />John Cameron Denton (2017–?)<ref>{{Cite web |date=July 3, 2022 |title=Atomwaffen Division/National Socialist Order |url=https://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/mappingmilitants/profiles/atomwaffen-division |publisher=Center for International Security and Cooperation |quote=Following Russell's arrest and imprisonment, he was replaced as leader of AWD by John Cameron Denton}}</ref><br />Kaleb Cole (?–2022)<ref>{{Cite web |date=July 3, 2022 |title=Neo-Nazi Gets 7 Years for Threats Sent to Reporters, Activists |url=https://www.voanews.com/a/neo-nazi-gets-7-years-for-threats-sent-to-reporters-activists-/6393271.html |work=Voice of America |quote=Investigators said [Cole] became a leader of Atomwaffen Division after another leader was arrested on explosives charges.}}</ref><br />Unknown, various cell leaders (2022–2024) | founder = Brandon Russell | foundation = October 12, 2015<ref name="extremist">{{cite web |title=AtomWaffen Division |url=https://ctc.westpoint.edu/the-iron-march-forum-and-the-evolution-of-the-skull-mask-neo-fascist-network |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250921001753/https://ctc.westpoint.edu/the-iron-march-forum-and-the-evolution-of-the-skull-mask-neo-fascist-network |archive-date=September 21, 2025 |access-date=September 21, 2025 |work=Combating Terrorism Center}}</ref> | dissolved = November 10, 2024<ref name="Defunct">{{cite web |date=November 10, 2024 |title=Terrorist groups embrace chance of weakened US hegemony under Trump |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/10/terrorism-trump-administration |work=The Guardian}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=March 21, 2025 |title=Neo-Nazi network 'Terrorgram' goes to court over planned attack on substation |url=https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hate-watch/neo-nazi-network-terrorgram-court-planned-attack-substation/ |work=Southern Poverty Law Center |quote=Hatfield, writing under the pseudonym "Ryan Arthur," announced NSRF's formal disbandment on Nov. 8, 2024, on American Futurist, a website operated by former Atomwaffen Division members.}}</ref> | financing = Arms trafficking, robbery, money laundering, clandestine chemistry, cybercrime<ref name="auto2">{{Cite web |date=December 20, 2019 |title=Transnational White Terror: Exposing Atomwaffen And The Iron March Networks |url=https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2019/12/19/transnational-white-terror-exposing-atomwaffen-and-the-iron-march-networks/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191220082035/https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2019/12/19/transnational-white-terror-exposing-atomwaffen-and-the-iron-march-networks/ |archive-date=December 20, 2019 |access-date=December 20, 2019 |website=Bellingcat}}</ref> | predecessor = Iron March<ref name=extremist/><ref name="Upchurch 2021">{{cite journal |date=December 22, 2021 |editor1-last=Cruickshank |editor1-first=Paul |editor2-last=Hummel |editor2-first=Kristina |title=The Iron March Forum and the Evolution of the "Skull Mask" Neo-Fascist Network |url=https://ctc.usma.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/CTC-SENTINEL-102021.pdf |url-status=live |journal=CTC Sentinel |location=West Point, New York |publisher=Combating Terrorism Center |volume=14 |issue=10 |pages=27–37 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211227044425/https://ctc.usma.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/CTC-SENTINEL-102021.pdf |archive-date=December 27, 2021 |access-date=January 19, 2022 |author-last=Upchurch |author-first=H. E.}}</ref><ref name="ironmarch">{{cite news |last=Poulter |first=James |date=March 12, 2018 |title=The Obscure Neo-Nazi Forum Linked to a Wave of Terror |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-obscure-neo-nazi-forum-linked-to-a-wave-of-terror/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200504070220/https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/437pkd/the-obscure-neo-nazi-forum-linked-to-a-wave-of-terror |archive-date=May 4, 2020 |access-date=June 18, 2019 |work=Vice}}</ref><ref name="ironmarch2">{{cite web |date=February 15, 2019 |title=Visions of Chaos: Weighing the Violent Legacy of Iron March |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/02/15/visions-chaos-weighing-violent-legacy-iron-march |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190623232641/https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/02/15/visions-chaos-weighing-violent-legacy-iron-march |archive-date=June 23, 2019 |access-date=June 18, 2019 |work=Southern Poverty Law Center}}</ref> | area = Worldwide | ideology = Neo-Nazism<br />Militant accelerationism<ref name="Upchurch 2021"/><br />Ecofascism{{sfn |Macklin |2022 |pp=988–990}}<br />Homophobia<br />Transphobia | position = Far-right | motives = * Overthrow of the federal government of the United States through terrorism and guerrilla warfare * Instigation of a genocidal ethnic cleansing and race war against non-whites * Establishment of a Nazi-based White ethnostate | allies = {{ubl|Aryan Renaissance Society ''(prison)''<ref name="Anti-Defamation League"/>|Azov Battalion<ref>{{cite news |date=July 26, 2022 |title=We need to talk about Azov |url=https://www.hilltimes.com/2022/03/02/we-need-to-talk-about-azov/347585 |work=Hill Times |quote=The Azov Battalion has cultivated a relationship with members of the Atomwaffen Division as well as with U.S.-based militants from R.A.M}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=July 26, 2022 |title=Examining Atomwaffen Division's Transnational Linkages |url=https://www.thecipherbrief.com/column_article/examining-atomwaffen-divisions-transnational-linkages |work=The Cipher Brief |quote=AWD has cultivated a relationship with the notorious Azov Battalion, which has emerged as a critical node in the broader WSE movement.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=July 26, 2022 |title=Ukraine Could Become a Training Ground for Neo-Nazi Groups |url=https://eeradicalization.com/ukraine-could-become-a-training-ground-for-neo-nazi-groups/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230206132416/https://eeradicalization.com/ukraine-could-become-a-training-ground-for-neo-nazi-groups/ |archive-date=February 6, 2023 |access-date=July 26, 2022 |work=Eye on European Radicalization |quote=With the current state of chaos in Ukraine and porous borders near Poland, members of Atomwaffen Division and other neo-Nazis will be welcomed with open arms and plentiful resources provided by the Azov Regiment.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=July 26, 2022 |title=Russia's misguided 'denazification' of Ukraine is a self-fulfilling prophecy |url=https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/how-russia-spurred-ukraine-s-global-neo-nazi-recruitment-n1293177 |website=MSNBC |quote=And although it is a relatively small battalion, estimated at only 900 volunteers, Azov's reputation and global reach is far bigger. The group has recruited foreign fighters from at least half a dozen countries and has globally become "a larger-than-life brand among many extremists," according to Katz. U.S.-based militants from the now-defunct Rise Above Movement, along with members of the terrorist group Atomwaffen Division, have been cultivated by Azov.}}</ref>|Active Club Network<ref>{{cite web |author=Ali Winston |date=October 8, 2023 |title=Revealed: neo-Nazi active club counts several of US military as members |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/14/revealed-neo-nazi-active-club-us-military-members |work=The Guardian |quote=In Telegram group chats with members of other violent neo-fascist groups, including the Base, Liel has claimed he was once affiliated with the Atomwaffen Division,}}</ref><ref name="Mack Lamoureux">{{cite web |author=Mack Lamoureux |date=October 8, 2023 |title=Neo-Nazi Fight Clubs Are Fat-Shaming Men Into White Nationalism |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7evgw/neo-nazi-fight-clubs-robert-rundo-fat-shaming-white-nationalism |work=Vice News |quote=Other sources told VICE News that former members of the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen, which has been designated a terrorist organization in Canada, are playing key roles in organizing active clubs north of the border.}}</ref>|Combat 18|Nordic Resistance Movement<ref name="middlebury">{{Cite news |date=November 19, 2022 |title=Dangerous Organizations and Bad Actors: Nordic Resistance Movement |url=https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/academics/centers-initiatives/ctec/ctec-publications/dangerous-organizations-and-bad-actors-nordic |publisher=Center on Terrorism, Extremism and Counterterrorism, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey |quote=Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM) is a neofascist and accelerationist organization with a strong propensity for violence...NRM is a neofascist organization with a propensity towards accelerationist tactics. While upholding traditional facets of neofascism, including the goal of establishing a white Nordic ethnostate, NRM's history also points to widespread support for other openly accelerationist organizations and simultaneous endorsements from explicitly accelerationist organizations and networks like the Iron March forum...NRM publicly supports a number of openly militant accelerationist organizations, including Atomwaffen Division (AWD) and Russian Imperial Movement (RIM).}}</ref>|Order of Nine Angles|Russian Imperial Movement<ref name="Lansing">{{cite web |date=January 14, 2022 |title=Combat training for European neo-Nazis in Russia |url=https://lansinginstitute.org/2020/06/09/combat-training-for-european-neo-nazis-in-russia/ |access-date=August 22, 2022 |publisher=Lansing Institute}}</ref> |Rusich Group<ref name="Rusich">{{cite web |date=March 16, 2024 |title=Putin's Stealth Mobilization |url=https://www.newamerica.org/future-frontlines/reports/putin-mobilization-wagner-group/ |work=New America (organization) |quote=We also observed significant overlap between members of [RIM and Rusich] and well-known transnational White supremacist organization Atomwaffen Division...adherents of the Russian Imperial Movement, Rusich and related identitarian paramilitary groups such as...Atomwaffen Division}}</ref><ref name="bbc9">"Германская разведка сообщила о воюющих в Украине "российских неонацистах". Они и сами этого не скрывают". BBC News Русская служба. Архивировано из оригинала 28 мая 2022. Дата обращения: 28 мая 2022.</ref>|The Base}} | successor = Active Club Network | designated_as_terror_group_by = {{plainlist| * {{flag|United Kingdom}} ** February 24, 2020 (SKD)<ref name="BBC">{{Cite web |date=February 24, 2020 |title=Extremist neo-Nazi group to be banned under terror laws |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-51618248 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200226050608/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-51618248 |archive-date=February 26, 2020 |access-date=February 25, 2020 |work=BBC News}}</ref> ** July 13, 2020 (FKD)<ref name="homeoffice">{{Cite web |date=July 13, 2020 |title=Eesti teismelise juhitud neonatsirühmitus kuulutatakse Suurbritannias terroristlikuks |trans-title=A neo-Nazi group led by an Estonian teenager is declared terrorist |url=https://www.postimees.ee/7016877/eesti-teismelise-juhitud-neonatsiruhmitus-kuulutatakse-suurbritannias-terroristlikuks |access-date=July 13, 2020 |publisher=Postimees |language=et}}</ref> ** April 22, 2021 (AWD)<ref name="gov.uk">{{Cite news |date=April 22, 2021 |title=British Government Bans Atomwaffen Division As Criminal Terrorist Organization |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/british-government-bans-atomwaffen-division-as-criminal-terrorist-organization/ |work=Vice News}}</ref> * {{flag|Canada}} ** February 3, 2021 (NO, AWD)<ref name="Canadian Anti-Hate Network">{{cite web |date=February 3, 2021 |title=Atomwaffen Division, The Base, Proud Boys, and Russian Imperial Movement added to the Canadian terrorism list |url=https://www.antihate.ca/atomwaffen_division_the_base_white_power_groups_added_canada_terror_list |publisher=Canadian Anti-Hate Network}}</ref> * {{flag|Australia}} ** March 22, 2021 (SKD)<ref name="Australia">{{cite web |date=March 22, 2021 |title=Australia bans far-right extremist Sonnenkrieg Division |url=https://www.dw.com/en/australia-bans-far-right-extremist-sonnenkrieg-division/a-56947377 |work=Deutsche Welle}}</ref> ** February 17, 2022 (NSO)<ref>{{cite web |date=February 17, 2022 |title=Australia to list Hamas as terror group |url=https://7news.com.au/politics/australia-to-list-hamas-as-terror-group-c-5729815 |work=Seven News}}</ref> * {{flag|Austria}} ** 2024 (FKD){{refn|name=vr|Found by the Vienna Regional Court to be criminal/terrorist organization<ref name="DiePresse"/>}} * {{flag|Germany}} ** 2022 (FKD){{refn|name=gb|Found by the German Bundestag to be a criminal/terrorist organization{{citation needed|date=May 2026}}<!--ref name=Bundestag/-->}} * {{flag|Italy}} ** 2024 (NOS){{refn|name=bc|Found by the Bari court to be "international terrorist organization"<ref name="Pennelli"/>}} * {{flag|Estonia}} ** 2025 (FKD){{refn|name=hc|Found by the Harju court to be terrorist organization<ref name="Harju"/>}} }} | flag = }} The '''Atomwaffen Division''' ('''AWD''', {{lang|de|Atomwaffen}} meaning "atomic weapons" in German),<ref group="Note">Modern standard German prefers {{lang|de|Kernwaffen}} ({{literal|nuclear weapons}}) for the concept.</ref> also known as the '''National Socialist Resistance Front''',<ref name="Rebrand2"/> was an international far-right extremist and neo-Nazi network.<ref name="Upchurch 2021"/> Formed in 2015 and based in the Southern United States, it expanded across the United States and several other countries worldwide. Atomwaffen was described as "one of the most violent neo-Nazi movements in the 21st century".<ref>{{cite web |date=May 15, 2024 |title=Dangerous Organizations and Bad Actors: Atomwaffen Division |url=https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/academics/centers-initiatives/ctec/ctec-publications/dangerous-organizations-and-bad-actors-4 |work=Center on Terrorism, Extremism and Counterterrorism, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey}}</ref>
It was listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), and it was also designated as a terrorist group by multiple governments, including the United Kingdom and Canada.<ref name="BBC" /><ref name="homeoffice" /><ref>{{cite news |title=Active Hate Groups |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map/by-state |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190623170000/https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map/by-state |archive-date=June 23, 2019 |access-date=June 16, 2019 |newspaper=Southern Poverty Law Center}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |author=Paula Newton |date=February 3, 2021 |title=Canada will list the Proud Boys movement as a terrorist group |url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/03/americas/canada-proud-boys-terror-group/index.html |access-date=February 3, 2021 |website=CNN}}</ref> Members of the Atomwaffen Division have been held responsible for a number of murders, bombings, planned terrorist attacks, and other criminal actions.<ref>{{cite web |date=December 6, 2023 |title=Brandon Russell: Leader of neo-Nazi Atomwaffen group charged with Baltimore power grid plot |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64493319 |work=BBC News |quote=Mr Russell is the founder of Atomwaffen Division, a neo-Nazi group which has been linked to several murders, bombings and plots in the United States and other countries.}}</ref>
== History == In 2015, the group's creation was announced by founding member Brandon Russell, on the Neo-fascist<ref name="Upchurch 2021"/> and Neo-Nazi<ref name="Upchurch 2021"/> web forum ''IronMarch.org'',<ref name=extremist/><ref name="Upchurch 2021"/><ref name="hanginghitler"/> which, prior to its shutdown in 2017, had been linked to several acts of Neo-Nazi terrorism and violent militant groups such as the Nordic Resistance Movement, National Action, CasaPound, and Golden Dawn.<ref name="Upchurch 2021"/><ref name=ironmarch/><ref name=ironmarch2/><ref name="parallax">{{Cite web |date=February 22, 2018 |title=Atomwaffen and the SIEGE parallax: how one neo-Nazi's life's work is fueling a younger generation |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/02/22/atomwaffen-and-siege-parallax-how-one-neo-nazi%E2%80%99s-life%E2%80%99s-work-fueling-younger-generation |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180226211847/https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/02/22/atomwaffen-and-siege-parallax-how-one-neo-nazi%E2%80%99s-life%E2%80%99s-work-fueling-younger-generation |archive-date=February 26, 2018 |access-date=February 26, 2018 |publisher=Southern Poverty Law Center}}</ref> In its initial posts, the group described itself as a "very fanatical, ideological band of comrades who do both activism and militant training. Hand to hand, arms training, and various other forms of training. As for activism, we spread awareness in the real world through unconventional means."<ref name="hanginghitler"/>
As of 2017, the group's membership was mostly young, and it also recruited new members on university campuses.<ref>{{cite news |last=Phillips |first=Kristine |date=June 11, 2017 |title=A neo-Nazi with explosives and a framed photo of Timothy McVeigh is not a threat, judge rules |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/06/11/a-neo-nazi-with-explosives-and-a-framed-photo-of-timothy-mcveigh-is-not-a-threat-judge-rules/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808075847/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/06/11/a-neo-nazi-with-explosives-and-a-framed-photo-of-timothy-mcveigh-is-not-a-threat-judge-rules/ |archive-date=August 8, 2017 |access-date=August 8, 2017 |newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Thompson |first1=A.C. |last2=Winston |first2=Ali |date=May 22, 2018 |title=An Alarming Tip About a Neo-Nazi Marine, Then an Uncertain Response |url=https://www.propublica.org/article/an-alarming-tip-about-a-neo-nazi-marine-then-an-uncertain-response |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190224071235/https://www.propublica.org/article/an-alarming-tip-about-a-neo-nazi-marine-then-an-uncertain-response |archive-date=February 24, 2019 |access-date=February 24, 2019 |work=ProPublica}}</ref> Its campus recruitment poster campaigns<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mayo |first=Marilyn |date=December 7, 2016 |title=Alt Right Groups Target Campuses with Fliers |url=https://www.adl.org/resources/article/alt-right-groups-target-campuses-fliers |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171228000548/https://www.adl.org/blog/alt-right-groups-target-campuses-with-fliers |archive-date=December 28, 2017 |access-date=December 27, 2017 |publisher=Anti-Defamation League}}</ref> urged students to "Join Your Local Nazis!" and say "The Nazis Are Coming!". It posted recruiting posters at the University of Chicago,<ref>{{cite news |last=Crews |first=Julian |date=December 6, 2016 |title=Neo-Nazi group claims responsibility for Hitler poster on U of C campus |url=http://wgntv.com/2016/12/06/neo-nazi-group-claims-responsibility-for-hitler-poster-on-u-of-c-campus/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190618075358/https://wgntv.com/2016/12/06/neo-nazi-group-claims-responsibility-for-hitler-poster-on-u-of-c-campus/ |archive-date=June 18, 2019 |access-date=August 8, 2017 |work=WGN-TV}}</ref><ref name="hanginghitler">{{cite news |last=Thorp |first=Adam |date=December 5, 2016 |title=Militant Neo-Nazi Group Claims Credit for Hanging Hitler Portrait, Swastikas on Campus Building |url=https://www.chicagomaroon.com/article/2016/12/6/militant-neo-nazi-group-claims-credit-hanging-hitl/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170731070855/https://www.chicagomaroon.com/article/2016/12/6/militant-neo-nazi-group-claims-credit-hanging-hitl/ |archive-date=July 31, 2017 |access-date=July 30, 2017 |work=Chicago Maroon}}</ref> the University of Central Florida,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lowe |first1=Derek |date=November 17, 2015 |title=UCFPD Investigating Multiple Nazi Symbols, Fliers at UCF |url=http://knightnews.com/2015/11/ucfpd-investigating-multiple-nazi-symbols-fliers-at-ucf/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170731080853/http://knightnews.com/2015/11/ucfpd-investigating-multiple-nazi-symbols-fliers-at-ucf/ |archive-date=July 31, 2017 |access-date=July 30, 2017 |work=KnightNews.com}}</ref> the Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia,<ref>{{cite news |date=March 28, 2016 |title=ODU police investigating Nazi fliers posted on campus |url=https://wtkr.com/2016/03/28/odu-police-investigating-nazi-fliers-posted-on-campus/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190617000311/https://wtkr.com/2016/03/28/odu-police-investigating-nazi-fliers-posted-on-campus/ |archive-date=June 17, 2019 |access-date=June 17, 2019 |work=WTKR}}</ref> and Boston University.<ref>{{cite news |last=Hemingway |first=Mariel |date=May 2, 2016 |title=Nazi Organization Recruitment At Boston University? Poster Discovered Inside Campus [VIDEO] |url=https://www.universityherald.com/articles/29603/20160502/nazi-organization-recruitment-boston-university-poster-discovered-inside-campus.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170731112239/http://www.universityherald.com/articles/29603/20160502/nazi-organization-recruitment-boston-university-poster-discovered-inside-campus.htm |archive-date=July 31, 2017 |work=University Herald}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=December 7, 2016 |title=Alt-Right Groups Target Campuses with Fliers |url=http://lasvegas.adl.org/alt-right-groups-target-campuses-with-fliers/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170731104349/http://lasvegas.adl.org/alt-right-groups-target-campuses-with-fliers/ |archive-date=July 31, 2017 |access-date=July 30, 2017 |work=Anti-Defamation League}}</ref> Atomwaffen Division had recruited several veterans and current members of the US Armed Forces who trained the organization's members in the use of firearms and military tactics.<ref name="ranks">{{Cite web |date=June 14, 2019 |title=Ranks of Notorious Hate Group Include Active-Duty Military |url=https://www.propublica.org/article/atomwaffen-division-hate-group-active-duty-military |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180620235919/https://www.propublica.org/article/atomwaffen-division-hate-group-active-duty-military |archive-date=June 20, 2018 |access-date=June 23, 2018 |work=ProPublica}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=May 3, 2019 |title=Exclusive: Army Investigating Soldier's Alleged Leadership In Neo-Nazi Terror Group |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/atomwaffen-division-army-soldier-investigation-corwyn-storm-carver_n_5ccb5350e4b0e4d7572fde38 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190616160249/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/atomwaffen-division-army-soldier-investigation-corwyn-storm-carver_n_5ccb5350e4b0e4d7572fde38 |archive-date=June 16, 2019 |access-date=June 17, 2019 |work=HuffPost}}</ref> A US Navy officer was expelled for allegedly recruiting 12 members for the group and four affiliated US Marines were charged with trafficking and manufacturing firearms for the group.<ref>{{Cite news |date=November 21, 2020 |title=Ex-Marines based in NC made Nazi training montage video in Idaho desert, feds say |url=http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article247328274.html |work=Charlotte Observer}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=May 7, 2020 |title=How Extremist Groups Are Responding to Covid-19 (6 May 2020) |url=https://institute.global/policy/snapshot-how-extremist-groups-are-responding-covid-19-6-may-2020 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200515220448/https://institute.global/policy/snapshot-how-extremist-groups-are-responding-covid-19-6-may-2020 |archive-date=May 15, 2020 |access-date=May 7, 2020 |work=Tony Blair Institute for Global Change |quote=The US Navy has expelled one of its officers after the revelation that he was a recruiter for neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division, which has been linked to several murders and terrorist plots in the US.}}</ref> Atomwaffen members also sought to train with the Azov Battalion and Russian Imperial Movement.<ref name="24ur">{{Cite news |date=October 14, 2022 |title=V 'denacifikacijo' Ukrajine tudi ruski neonacisti (Russian neo-Nazis are also involved in the 'denazification' of Ukraine) |url=https://www.24ur.com/novice/tujina/ukrajina/v-denacifikacijo-ukrajine-tudi-ruski-neonacisti.html |work=24ur.com |quote=Among those listed, the Atomwaffen Division, founded in the USA, which is closely connected to both Russian and Ukrainian ultra-right groups, is certainly still operating illegally. In doing so, it cooperates with the Azov battalion, which is banned on the territory of Russia, and the Russian Imperialist Movement, which the US State Department estimates enables the training of white supremacists and neo-Nazis in Europe.}}</ref><ref name=Malcontent/><ref>{{cite news |author=Spencer Beswick |date=January 6, 2023 |title=The Jan. 6 coup blared an alarm about rising fascism. Will we hear it? |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/made-by-history/2023/01/06/anti-fascists-1980s-jan-6/ |newspaper=The Washington Post |quote=With Trump out of office, a worrying number of fascist groups today are repeating the revolutionary turn of the 1980s, from neo-Nazis like the Atomwaffen Division (also known as the National Socialist Resistance Front), which has sought military training with both the Ukrainian Azov Battalion and the Russian Imperial Movement}}</ref><ref name=Futurest/><ref name=Unicorn/> In October 2020, Ukraine deported two Atomwaffen members who tried to join Azov for inciting murders and terrorism.<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 8, 2020 |title=Ukraine Deported Two American Members Of A Neo-Nazi Group Who Tried To Join A Far-Right Military Unit For "Combat Experience" |url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/christopherm51/ukraine-deports-american-neo-nazi-atomwaffen-division |website=BuzzFeed}}</ref><ref name="auto2"/><ref>{{Cite web |date=June 14, 2019 |title="Defend the White Race": American Extremists Being Co-Opted by Ukraine's Far-Right |url=https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2019/02/15/defend-the-white-race-american-extremists-being-co-opted-by-ukraines-far-right/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190404213242/https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2019/02/15/defend-the-white-race-american-extremists-being-co-opted-by-ukraines-far-right/ |archive-date=April 4, 2019 |access-date=April 16, 2019 |website=Bellingcat}}</ref>
As of 2018, Atomwaffen had ties to various affiliated neo-Nazi groups and the fascist Satanist Order of Nine Angles (O9A), an organization which advocates rape and human sacrifice.<ref name="parallax" /><ref>{{cite news |last=Weill |first=Kelly |date=March 22, 2018 |title=Satanism Drama Is Tearing Apart the Murderous Neo-NaziGroup |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/satanism-drama-is-tearing-apart-the-murderous-neo-nazi-group-atomwaffen |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200524073531/https://www.thedailybeast.com/satanism-drama-is-tearing-apart-the-murderous-neo-nazi-group-atomwaffen |archive-date=May 24, 2020 |access-date=April 26, 2018 |work=The Daily Beast}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=March 7, 2023 |title=US Soldier Jailed for Satanic Neo-Nazi Plot to Kill Troops in Al Qaeda Attack |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/order-of-nine-angles-neo-nazi-ethan-melzer-arrest/ |work=Vice News |quote=O9A has been tied deeply to the violent accelerationist neo-Nazi movement in both the United States and the U.K. where adherents were found within groups like National Action, Atomwaffen, and The Base.}}</ref> Through their shared interests in Nazism and occultism, AWD member John Cameron Denton met Joshua Caleb Sutter, the founder of the esoteric Satanist group the Tempel ov Blood (ToB), a nexion of the ONA.<ref name=":16">{{Cite news |last=Carless |first=Will |last2=Johnson |first2=Kevin |date=June 9, 2022 |title=He Publishes Books on Satanism and Torture to Inspire Neo-Nazis. The FBI Has Paid Him $140,000 |url=https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/nation/2022/06/09/fbi-informant-white-supremacist-atomwaffen/7237901001/ |url-access=subscription |access-date=January 1, 2026 |work=USA Today |location=New York City |language=en-US |issn=0734-7456}}</ref><ref name=":13">{{Cite magazine |last=Winston |first=Ali |date=August 1, 2024 |title=He Was an FBI Informant—and Inspired a Generation of Violent Extremists |url=https://www.wired.com/story/the-dangerous-exploits-of-an-extremist-fbi-informant/ |url-access=subscription |access-date=January 1, 2026 |magazine=Wired |location=San Francisco |language=en-US |issn=1059-1028}}</ref> The ToB infiltrated and effectively took over the AWD, beginning in 2017.<ref name=":12">{{Cite web |date=September 29, 2023 |title=Dangerous Organizations and Bad Actors: Order of Nine Angles |url=https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/academics/centers-initiatives/ctec/publications/dangerous-organizations-and-bad-actors-order-nine |access-date=January 1, 2026 |website=Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey |language=en-US}}</ref> Following the arrest of the AWD's original founders, they were succeeded as leader by John Cameron Denton. Denton was close to Sutter and influenced by the ToB and changed the direction of the group to be more similar to the ToB.<ref name=":12" /> Denton made Sutter's books required for new initiates and approved them for reading for members.<ref name=":7">{{Cite magazine |last=Gault |first=Matthew |date=August 25, 2021 |title=FBI Bankrolled Publisher of Occult Neo-Nazi Books, Feds Claim |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/fbi-bankrolled-publisher-of-occult-neo-nazi-books-feds-claim/ |access-date=January 1, 2026 |magazine=Vice |location=New York City |issn=1077-6788}}</ref> Sutter's influence became controversial among AWD members who despised the Satanic and violent direction the AWD took, which led to several members leaving.<ref name=":13"/><ref name=":16" />
During an investigation in 2018, ProPublica obtained 250,000 encrypted chat logs written by members of the group.<ref name="inside">{{cite news |last1=Thompson |first1=A.C. |last2=Winston |first2=Ali |last3=Hanrahan |first3=Jake |author-link3=Jake Hanrahan |date=February 23, 2018 |title=Inside Atomwaffen as it celebrates a member for allegedly killing a gay Jewish college student |url=https://www.propublica.org/article/atomwaffen-division-inside-white-hate-group |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200522230951/https://www.propublica.org/article/atomwaffen-division-inside-white-hate-group |archive-date=May 22, 2020 |access-date=February 23, 2018}}</ref> It was estimated in early 2018, that Atomwaffen had 80 members,<ref name="trained">{{cite news |last1=Thompson |first1=A.C. |last2=Winston |first2=Ali |last3=Hanrahan |first3=Jake |author-link3=Jake Hanrahan |date=January 26, 2018 |title=California Murder Suspect Said to Have Trained With Extremist Hate Group |url=https://www.propublica.org/article/california-murder-suspect-atomwaffen-division-extremist-hate-group |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200521205331/https://www.propublica.org/article/california-murder-suspect-atomwaffen-division-extremist-hate-group |archive-date=May 21, 2020 |access-date=January 27, 2018 |work=ProPublica}}</ref> while ProPublica estimated as many as 100.<ref name="ranks"/> According to International Centre for Counter-Terrorism the group has a large number of "initiates" in addition to 60 to 80 full members.<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web |date=October 9, 2019 |title=Siege: The Atomwaffen Division and Rising Far-Right Terrorism in the United States |url=https://icct.nl/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/ICCT-Ware-Siege-July2019.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191125123101/https://icct.nl/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/ICCT-Ware-Siege-July2019.pdf |archive-date=November 25, 2019 |access-date=October 9, 2019 |publisher=International Centre for Counter-Terrorism}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Bromwich |first=Jonah |date=February 12, 2018 |title=What Is Atomwaffen? A Neo-Nazi Group, Linked to Multiple Murders |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/12/us/what-is-atomwaffen.html |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180302075230/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/12/us/what-is-atomwaffen.html |archive-date=March 2, 2018 |work=The New York Times}}</ref>
On March 14, 2020, American neo-Nazi James Mason claimed that the Atomwaffen Division had disbanded. However, the group was believed to be on the cusp of being designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the State Department, and the Anti-Defamation League stated that "the move is designed to give members breathing room rather than actually end their militant activities".<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 15, 2020 |title=Audio Recording Claims Neo-Nazi Terror Group Is Disbanding – VICE |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/audio-recording-claims-neo-nazi-terror-group-is-disbanding/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200322052720/https://www.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/qjdnam/audio-recording-claims-neo-nazi-terror-group-is-disbanding |archive-date=March 22, 2020 |access-date=March 22, 2020 |website=Vice.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=McCormick-Cavanagh |first=Conor |date=March 17, 2020 |title=James Mason Announces Neo-Nazi Militant Group Is Disbanding |url=https://www.westword.com/news/atomwaffen-division-is-disbanding-james-mason-says-11664712 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200322143319/https://www.westword.com/news/atomwaffen-division-is-disbanding-james-mason-says-11664712 |archive-date=March 22, 2020 |access-date=March 22, 2020 |website=Westword}}</ref> An intelligence brief distributed by federal law enforcement warned that Atomwaffen and its branches had discussed taking advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic.<ref>{{cite news |date=March 21, 2019 |title=Federal law enforcement document reveals white supremacists discussed using coronavirus as a bioweapon |url=https://news.yahoo.com/federal-law-enforcement-document-reveals-white-supremacists-discussed-using-coronavirus-as-a-bioweapon-212031308.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200402043027/https://news.yahoo.com/federal-law-enforcement-document-reveals-white-supremacists-discussed-using-coronavirus-as-a-bioweapon-212031308.html |archive-date=April 2, 2020 |access-date=March 22, 2020 |work=Yahoo News}}</ref> On March 25, 2020, a Missouri man affiliated with Atomwaffen allegedly planned to destroy a hospital treating coronavirus victims with a car bomb and died in a shootout with the FBI.<ref>{{cite news |date=March 26, 2019 |title=Timothy Wilson Planned to Bomb Hospital During COVID-19 Crisis: FBI |url=https://heavy.com/news/2020/03/timothy-wilson/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200511021528/https://heavy.com/news/2020/03/timothy-wilson/ |archive-date=May 11, 2020 |access-date=March 26, 2020 |work=Heavy.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=March 27, 2019 |title=FBI learned of coronavirus-inspired bomb plotter through radicalized US Army soldier |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fbi-learned-coronavirus-inspired-bomb-plotter-radicalized-us/story?id=69818116 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200328033443/https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fbi-learned-coronavirus-inspired-bomb-plotter-radicalized-us/story?id=69818116 |archive-date=March 28, 2020 |access-date=March 28, 2020 |work=ABC News}}</ref>
According to counter-terrorism experts, the group remained active and it continued to established affiliates in Europe. On May 31, 2020, it was announced that a new Atomwaffen cell had been uncovered in Russia. Local security services had also just previously uncovered a cell in Switzerland, confirming the suspicions of the German officials that Switzerland served as the linchpin of Atomwaffen's German operation, allowing them to evade law enforcement. European security officials have asked their US counterparts for assistance in combating these cells and urged designating them as terrorist organizations.<ref name="The Washington Post">{{cite news |date=June 6, 2020 |title=As Trump vows crackdown on 'antifa,' growth of right-wing extremism frustrates Europeans |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/as-trump-vows-crackdown-on-antifa-growth-of-right-wing-extremism-frustrates-europeans/2020/06/05/7006eb40-9b94-11ea-ad09-8da7ec214672_story.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200606050824/https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/as-trump-vows-crackdown-on-antifa-growth-of-right-wing-extremism-frustrates-europeans/2020/06/05/7006eb40-9b94-11ea-ad09-8da7ec214672_story.html |archive-date=June 6, 2020 |access-date=June 6, 2020 |newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=June 12, 2020 |title=Todesdrohungen aus der Schweiz (Death threats from Switzerland) |url=https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/report-muenchen/rechtsextremismus-schweiz-101.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190929101115/https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/report-muenchen/rechtsextremismus-schweiz-101.html |archive-date=September 29, 2019 |access-date=June 12, 2020 |work=Tagesschau.de}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=March 21, 2019 |title=As Atomwaffen Division Disbands, European Branch Announces It Will "Remain Active" |url=https://ent.siteintelgroup.com/Far-Right-/-Far-Left-Threat/as-atomwaffen-division-disbands-european-branch-announces-it-will-remain-active.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200322100014/https://ent.siteintelgroup.com/Far-Right-/-Far-Left-Threat/as-atomwaffen-division-disbands-european-branch-announces-it-will-remain-active.html |archive-date=March 22, 2020 |access-date=March 22, 2020 |publisher=SITE Intelligence Group}}</ref>
In August 2020, months after the claimed disbanding, the group resurfaced yet again, announcing having reorganized as the "National Socialist Order" on the American Futurist.<ref name="rebrand">{{cite news |last=Jojola |first=Jeremy |date=September 18, 2020 |title=Militant neo-nazi group surfaces in Colorado |url=https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/next/atomwaffen-division-neo-nazi-colorado-springs/73-4c9ec6f7-d37e-45c8-a2d4-ff187b619d33 |access-date=October 9, 2020 |website=9News}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Purdue |first=Simon |date=October 29, 2020 |title=The new face of terror in the US |url=https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/countering-radical-right/new-face-terror-us/ |website=Open Democracy}}</ref>
On April 22, 2021, the British government announced its banning of Atomwaffen/National Socialist Order as terrorist organizations.<ref name="gov.uk" /><ref>{{UK SI| year = 2021| number = 501| section = 3| url = https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/501/made| title = Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) Order 2021| isbn = 978-034-822278-4| made = April 22, 2021| force =April 23, 2021}}</ref> Similar actions were undertaken by Canada and Australia, which outlawed local Atomwaffen branches in sweeping bans against far-right organizations.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Atomwaffen Division / National Socialist Order |url=https://www.counterextremism.com/supremacy/atomwaffen-division-national-socialist-order |access-date=February 18, 2022 |publisher=Counter Extremism Project}}</ref>
On September 12, 2022, former NSO members released a blog post on their website claiming to start a new organization, the "National Socialist Resistance Front."<ref name="Rebrand2">{{Cite web |date=September 30, 2022 |title=Extremist Content Online: White Supremacist Raising Money On GiveSendGo To Support Campground To Be Used For Training |url=https://www.counterextremism.com/press/extremist-content-online-white-supremacist-raising-money-givesendgo-support-campground-be |publisher=Counter Extremism Project}}</ref>
In 2023, ''Vice'' and ''The Guardian'' reported that Atomwaffen Division members have been active "and play key roles" in organizing the Active Club Network, which is a loose association of various neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups.<ref>{{cite news |author=Ali Winston |date=October 8, 2023 |title=Revealed: neo-Nazi active club counts several of US military as members |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/14/revealed-neo-nazi-active-club-us-military-members |work=The Guardian}}</ref><ref name="Mack Lamoureux"/> A leading member of Atomwaffen's Canadian branch, Patrick Gordon Macdonald, who has been charged with terrorism offenses, was allegedly also a member of Canadian Active Club.<ref>{{cite news |date=October 8, 2023 |title=Canadian Police Just Arrested Influential Neo-Nazi 'Dark Foreigner' |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/dark-foreigner-arrested-canada-terrorism/ |work=Vice News |quote=Sources indicated to VICE News that he remained active with the extreme right after he was identified. Earlier this year, the Canadian Anti-Hate Network published an article alleging that he was a member of a Canadian Active Club, a neo-Nazi fitness group.}}</ref> Kristoffer Nippak, another founding member of the Northern Order was also a member of the Active Club.<ref>{{cite news |date=December 1, 2023 |title=Meet the 'Entrepreneur of Hate' Behind the Rise Of Canadian Neo-Nazi Fight Clubs |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/meet-the-entrepreneur-of-hate-behind-the-rise-of-canadian-neo-nazi-fight-clubs/ |work=Vice News}}</ref> According to the director of the University of New Brunswick's Criminology and Criminal Justice Program, David Hoffman, Atomwaffen is using Active Clubs as a cover for organizing where it has been outlawed as a terrorist group.<ref>{{cite web |title=2 Ontario men accused of belonging to neo-Nazi terrorism group |url=https://globalnews.ca/news/10157791/ontario-terrorism-charges/ |work=Global News |quote="Their way around getting on this terror watch list is, 'oh, we're no longer Atomwaffen, we're Active Club Canada. Meanwhile, they continue doing what they're doing and hoping that, you know, they can get out of this legal loophole with this rebranding," Hoffman said.}}</ref>
Although Atomwaffen's ideology stressed opposition to democracy and parliamentarism, prominent Atomwaffen members have also risen to power as prominent members of their local far-right parties. Viljam Nyman of AWD Finland had been member of the Lapland board of the Finns Party, and another Finnish member was a party ideologue, publishing dozens of articles in the Finns party organ. MP Ruuben Kaalep from EKRE was also connected to Atomwaffen members{{refn|name=parties|<ref name="Yleisradio">{{cite web |date=November 9, 2023 |title=Puoluetoimistojen valepommi-iskuista epäilty "maisteri" on ollut perussuomalaisten jäsen |url=https://yle.fi/a/74-20059419 |work=Yleisradio}}</ref><ref name="Roger Suso">{{cite web |author=Roger Suso |date=December 31, 2022 |title=COM UN NEN DE TRETZE ANYS HA POGUT DIRIGIR DES D'ESTÒNIA UNA ORGANITZACIÓ INTERNACIONAL NEONAZI? |url=https://directa.cat/com-un-nen-de-tretze-anys-ha-pogut-dirigir-des-destonia-una-organitzacio-internacional-neonazi/ |work=:ca:Directa |quote=According to the Eesti Ekspress newspaper, Commander had a contact with the deputy of the Conservative People's Party of Estonia (EKRE) and head of the youth section of the formation Ruuben Kaalep.}}</ref><ref name="Eesti Ekspress">{{cite news |date=August 10, 2020 |title=Kes on Komandör? Kapo tabas vägivaldse natsiorganisatsiooni eestlasest juhi |url=https://ekspress.delfi.ee/kuum/kes-on-komandor-kapo-tabas-vagivaldse-natsiorganisatsiooni-eestlasest-juhi?id=89488391 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200425064551/https://ekspress.delfi.ee/kuum/kes-on-komandor-kapo-tabas-vagivaldse-natsiorganisatsiooni-eestlasest-juhi?id=89488391 |archive-date=April 25, 2020 |access-date=April 10, 2020 |work=Eesti Ekspress}}</ref><ref name="EW">{{cite news |last=Silver |first=Tambur |date=August 10, 2020 |title=A global neo-Nazi organisation led by a 13-year-old Estonian schoolboy |url=https://estonianworld.com/security/a-global-neo-nazi-organisation-led-by-a-13-year-old-estonian-schoolboy/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200512122848/https://estonianworld.com/security/a-global-neo-nazi-organisation-led-by-a-13-year-old-estonian-schoolboy/ |archive-date=May 12, 2020 |access-date=April 10, 2020 |work=Estonian World}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=November 14, 2023 |title=Kolme tuomittiin äärioikeistolaisista terrorismirikoksista vankeuteen – tarkoitus aiheuttaa vakavaa pelkoa Suomessa |url=https://www.mtvuutiset.fi/artikkeli/kolme-tuomittiin-aarioikeistolaisista-terrorismirikoksista-lahdessa/8810176 |work=MTV Uutiset}}</ref>}} and four affiliates of Atomwaffen Deutschland were also local politicians of the Alternative for Germany.<ref name=WSWS/><ref name=CMAS/><ref>{{cite web |date=November 13, 2023 |title=Bayerischer AfD-Mann bei rechtsextremer Burschenschaft |url=https://focus.de/regional/muenchen/bayerischer-afd-mann-bei-rechtsextremer-burschenschaft_id_244988070.html |work=Focus (German magazine) |quote=Die Fotos und Videos, die rechtsextreme Organisationen aus diesem Spektrum auf Messengerdiensten einsetzen, ähneln in ihrer Ästhetik denen der rechtsterroristischen Atomwaffendivision. Diese ursprünglich aus den USA stammende Organisation möchte gewalttätig die Herrschaft der "weißen" Rasse herbeiführen.}}</ref>
According to ''The Guardian'', "mass shooters in Buffalo, New York; El Paso, Texas; and Jacksonville, Florida have cited Atomwaffen's message as their inspiration."<ref name="Killings">{{cite web |date=April 7, 2024 |title=Neo-Nazi to face trial in killing of former high school classmate Blaze Bernstein |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/07/neo-nazi-killing-blaze-bernstein-sam-woodward |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240407115608/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/07/neo-nazi-killing-blaze-bernstein-sam-woodward |archive-date=April 7, 2024 |work=The Guardian |quote=Its legacy has been bloody. Dozens of convicted militants, several copycat organizations and mass shooters in Buffalo, New York; El Paso, Texas; and Jacksonville, Florida have cited Atomwaffen's message as their inspiration.}}</ref> ''The Guardian'' reported that as of November 10, 2024, Atomwaffen was disbanded.<ref name=Defunct/>
In February 2023 Russell and a Maryland woman were charged with allegedly conspiring to attack electric substations in the Baltimore area.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sneed |first1=Tierney |date=February 6, 2023 |title=Justice Department charges two people with conspiracy to destroy energy facilities {{!}} CNN Politics |url=https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/06/politics/justice-department-energy-facilities/index.html |access-date=February 6, 2023 |work=CNN |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Fenton |first1=Justin |date=February 6, 2023 |title=Woman plotted to destroy energy substations with neo-Nazi leader, FBI says |url=https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/criminal-justice/sarah-beth-clendaniel-fbi-energy-substation-plot-KLTNJHK3FNBG5JHT7THIR3GQAY/ |access-date=February 6, 2023 |work=the-baltimore-banner |language=en}}</ref> Russell and Sarah Clendaniel, have been arrested for planning to attack numerous Baltimore electrical substations, aiming to "completely destroy this whole city" in an apparently racially motivated attack.<ref>{{cite news |author=LAUREN SFORZA |date=February 6, 2023 |title=Suspects planned to attack Baltimore power grid, authorities say |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3845724-suspects-planned-to-attack-baltimore-power-grid-authorities-say/ |publisher=thehill.com}}</ref> On February 4, 2025, Russell was found guilty of one count of conspiracy to damage an energy facility.<ref>{{cite web |date=February 4, 2025 |title=Neo-Nazi leader found guilty of plotting attack on Maryland power grid |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/maryland-bge-neo-nazi-power-grid-guilty/ |work=CBS News}}</ref> On August 7, 2025, Judge James K. Bredar sentenced Russell to the maximum 20 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release, rejecting arguments that he was less culpable than Clendaniel.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Fenton |first1=Justin |date=August 7, 2025 |title=Neo-Nazi leader gets 20 years, lifetime supervision in Baltimore energy grid plot |url=https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/criminal-justice/neo-nazi-leader-gets-20-years-lifetime-supervision-in-baltimore-energy-grid-plot-FJW5TNREW5HH3OILKBAWX5YF44/ |access-date=August 7, 2025 |work=The Baltimore Banner |language=en}}</ref>
== Ideology == {{Neo-Nazism sidebar|expanded=organizations}} In its propaganda videos, Atomwaffen burned copies of the United States Constitution and flag and advocated for attacks against the federal government of the United States, racial minorities, gay people, and Jews. The videos also contained footage of the attacks on said minorities.<ref name=inside/> Atomwaffen Division had engaged in several mass murder plots, plans to cripple public water systems and plans to destroy parts of the continental US power transmission grid.<ref name=inside/> Atomwaffen has also been accused of planning to blow up nuclear power stations.<ref name=inside/> The organization's aim was to violently overthrow the federal government of the United States via terrorism and guerrilla warfare tactics. Since 2017, the organization had been linked to eight killings and several violent hate crimes in the US, including assaults, rapes and multiple cases of kidnapping and torture.<ref name=trained/><ref name="Anti-Defamation League">{{Cite web |title=Backgrounder: Atomwaffen Division (AWD) |url=https://www.adl.org/education/resources/backgrounders/atomwaffen-division-awd |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418182407/https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/all-american-nazis-628023/ |archive-date=April 18, 2020 |access-date=January 28, 2018 |publisher=Anti-Defamation League}}</ref><ref name="hopenothate_2019-02">{{cite web |date=February 17, 2019 |title=State of Hate 2019 |url=http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/state-of-hate-2019-final-1.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190220161854/http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/state-of-hate-2019-final-1.pdf |archive-date=February 20, 2019 |access-date=February 20, 2019 |publisher=Hope not Hate}}</ref><ref name="hopenothate_2020- Ireland 10-20 member. 02">{{cite web |date=March 2, 2020 |title=State of Hate 2020 |url=https://www.hopenothate.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/state-of-hate-2020-final.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200302121817/https://www.hopenothate.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/state-of-hate-2020-final.pdf |archive-date=March 2, 2020 |access-date=March 2, 2020 |publisher=Hope not Hate}}</ref><ref name="ICT">{{cite web |author1=Dr. Eitan Azani |author2=Dr. Liram Koblenz-Stenzler |author3=Lorena Atiyas-Lvovsky |author4=Dan Ganor |author5=Arie Ben-Am |author6=Delilah Meshulam |date=September 2020 |title=The Far Right – Ideology, Modus Operandi and Development Trends |url=https://www.ict.org.il/images/The%20Far%20Right%20%E2%80%93%20Ideology.pdf |work=International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) |page=54 |quote=Atomwaffen has thus far been accused of eight murders, numerous assaults several accounts of rape, kidnapping and torture}}</ref> Atomwaffen is also responsible for several killings worldwide.<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=October 13, 2021 |title=Telegram is crawling with antisemitism |url=https://www.wired.co.uk/article/telegram-antisemitism-hopenothate |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211030225232/https://www.wired.co.uk/article/telegram-antisemitism-hopenothate |archive-date=October 30, 2021 |magazine=Wired |quote=AtomWaffen Division, which has been linked to at least 11 murders worldwide}}</ref><ref name="GWU"/>
The organization explicitly advocated neo-Nazism, drawing a significant amount of influences from James Mason and his publication ''Siege'', a mid-1980s newsletter of the National Socialist Liberation Front. It was published into a book with the same title that was required reading for all Atomwaffen Division members. Mason, a neo-Nazi and a Holocaust denier who advocates murder and violence in order to create lawlessness and anarchy and destabilize the system, was the main advisor to the group.<ref>{{cite web |title=James Mason |url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/james-mason |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190617183023/https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/james-mason |archive-date=June 17, 2019 |access-date=June 16, 2019 |work=Southern Poverty Law Center}}</ref><ref name=parallax/> Key ideological influences on the group included Mason, neo-Nazis Joseph Tommasi and William Luther Pierce as well as cult leader Charles Manson.<ref name=":02">{{Cite web |title=Atomwaffen Division |url=https://www.splcenter.org/resources/extremist-files/atomwaffen-division/ |access-date=May 21, 2025 |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |language=en-US}}</ref>
The AWD was one of the most notable groups who belong to the militant far-right accelerationist movement popularized by James Nolan Mason and the now-defunct Iron March forum. In the context of contemporary neo-fascist politics, far-right accelerationism is a radical approach to societal change which maintains the belief that attempting to achieve such through civilized political activities is ineffective. Instead, it emphasizes using violently terroristic actions (the 'accelerant') to increasingly destabilize a nation until its own government completely loses the ability to maintain fundamental security and development functions.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Kriner |first1=Matthew |last2=Lewis |first2=Jon |year=2021 |title=The Oath Keepers and Their Role in the January 6 Insurrection |url=https://ctc.westpoint.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/CTC-SENTINEL-102021.pdf |journal=CTC Sentinel |publisher=Combating Terrorism Center at West Point |volume=14 |issue=10}}</ref> Meanwhile, it is at this point that a revolutionary vanguard party can successfully seize power and rebrand the former democratic government into, in this case, a white ethnostate based upon authoritarian neo-fascist ideals akin to Nazi Germany.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Shadina |first1=Deeba |url=https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/academics/centers-initiatives/ctec/ctec-publications/militant-accelerationism-coalitions-case-study |title=Militant Accelerationism Coalitions: A Case Study in Neo-Fascist Accelerationist Coalition Building Online |last2=Newhouse |first2=Alex |last3=Kriner |first3=Matt |last4=Bradley |first4=Arthur |date=June 7, 2022 |publisher=Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey |language=en |access-date=July 27, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240701100549/https://ctc.westpoint.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/CTC-SENTINEL-102021.pdf |archive-date=July 1, 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=May 30, 2020 |title=Far-Right Infiltrators and Agitators in George Floyd Protests: Indicators of White Supremacists |url=https://www.justsecurity.org/70497/far-right-infiltrators-and-agitators-in-george-floyd-protests-indicators-of-white-supremacists/}}</ref>
Atomwaffen also drew influences from Nazi esotericism and the occult, and its recommended list of reading materials for aspiring initiates included the works of Savitri Devi and the works of Anton Long, a founding member of the Order of Nine Angles, a British neo-Nazi and a Satanist leader.<ref name=parallax/><ref name="Anti-Defamation League"/> Some members of the group also sympathized with the Salafi and jihadist forms of Islam. Atomwaffen Division's founder, Brandon Russell, is alleged to have described Omar Mateen, who perpetrated the Orlando nightclub shooting and pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, as "a hero". In its propaganda, the group also idolized Osama bin Laden, and it also considered "the culture of martyrdom and insurgency" within al Qaeda and ISIL as something which should be emulated.<ref name="osama">{{cite news |last1=Makuch |first1=Ben |last2=Lamoureux |first2=Mack |date=September 16, 2019 |title=Neo-Nazis Are Glorifying Osama Bin Laden |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/neo-nazis-are-glorifying-osama-bin-laden/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200515005020/https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bjwv4a/neo-nazis-are-glorifying-osama-bin-laden |archive-date=May 15, 2020 |access-date=September 17, 2019}}</ref> Atomwaffen promoted White jihad and has advocated for an alliance with Islamic groups such as Hamas and its Telegram channels have promoted the group.<ref>{{cite web |date=July 24, 2024 |title=The far-right exploits the Hamas attack in Israel. Online antisemitism and Islamophobia on the rise |url=https://www.europeaninterest.eu/the-far-right-exploits-the-hamas-attack-in-israel-online-antisemitism-and-islamophobia-on-the-rise/ |work=European Interest}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Koch |first1=Ariel |last2=Nahon |first2=Karine |last3=Moghadam |first3=Assaf |date=July 5, 2023 |title=White Jihad: How White Supremacists Adopt Jihadi Narratives, Aesthetics, and Tactics |journal=Terrorism and Political Violence |language=en |volume=36 |issue=7 |pages=919–943 |doi=10.1080/09546553.2023.2223694 |issn=0954-6553 |doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Sweeny |first=Nadia |date=March 23, 2022 |title=Jihad blanc, la menace hybride |url=https://www.politis.fr/articles/2022/03/jihad-blanc-la-menace-hybride-44222/ |access-date=April 8, 2024 |website=Politis |language=fr-FR}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Koch |first=Ariel |date=August 23, 2023 |title=White Jihad: The Jihadification of White Supremacy |url=https://gnet-research.org/2023/08/23/white-jihad-the-jihadification-of-white-supremacy/ |access-date=April 8, 2024 |website=GNET |language=en}}</ref> A member of the Atomwaffen Division, Steven Billingsley, was photographed at a vigil in San Antonio, Texas, for the victims of the Orlando shooting, with a skull mask and a sign which read "God Hates Fags", a motto connected to the homophobic Westboro Baptist Church.<ref name="SPLC">{{cite web |date=June 20, 2017 |title=Donning the Mask: Presenting 'The Face of 21st Century Fascism' |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/06/20/donning-mask-presenting-face-21st-century-fascism |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808074322/https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/06/20/donning-mask-presenting-face-21st-century-fascism |archive-date=August 8, 2017 |access-date=August 8, 2017 |work=Southern Poverty Law Center}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Chasnoff |first1=Brian |date=June 17, 2016 |title=Racist at vigil sends online message |url=http://www.expressnews.com/news/news_columnists/brian_chasnoff/article/Racist-at-vigil-sends-online-message-8310166.php |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200414062307/https://www.expressnews.com/news/news_columnists/brian_chasnoff/article/Racist-at-vigil-sends-online-message-8310166.php |archive-date=April 14, 2020 |access-date=July 30, 2017 |work=Express News}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=January 17, 2017 |title=Neo-Nazi Nerds Recruiting Students At Top Universities To Carry Out ISIS Attacks |url=http://radaronline.com/celebrity-news/neo-nazi-group-atomwaffen-division-targets-us-college-students/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171123031123/http://radaronline.com/celebrity-news/neo-nazi-group-atomwaffen-division-targets-us-college-students/ |archive-date=November 23, 2017 |access-date=July 30, 2017 |work=Radar Online}}</ref><ref name="huff">{{cite news |last1=Matthias |first1=Christopher |date=May 26, 2017 |title=The Enemy Of My Enemy Is My Friend: What Neo-Nazis Like About ISIS |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/neo-nazis-isis-devon-arthurs_us_5925cd0ae4b00c8df2a13b18 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190210110817/https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/neo-nazis-isis-devon-arthurs_us_5925cd0ae4b00c8df2a13b18 |archive-date=February 10, 2019 |access-date=July 30, 2017 |work=HuffPost}}</ref> Although the Atomwaffen Division was anti-communist, it sympathized and promoted North Korean Juche as a model of racial purity and autarky.<ref>{{cite web |date=January 3, 2024 |title=White Juche: How North Korea captured the imagination of the global far right |url=https://www.nknews.org/2023/11/white-juche-how-north-korea-captured-the-imagination-of-the-global-far-right/ |website=NK News}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Nate Thayer |date=November 5, 2023 |title=White Power and apocalyptic cults: Pro-DPRK Americans revealed |url=https://www.nknews.org/2013/05/white-power-and-apocalyptic-cults-pro-dprk-americans-revealed/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231020154902/https://www.nknews.org/2013/05/white-power-and-apocalyptic-cults-pro-dprk-americans-revealed/ |archive-date=October 20, 2023 |access-date=November 5, 2023 |website=NK News}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=james.pearson |date=May 6, 2013 |title=White Power and apocalyptic cults: Pro-DPRK Americans revealed {{!}} NK News |url=https://www.nknews.org/2013/05/white-power-and-apocalyptic-cults-pro-dprk-americans-revealed/ |access-date=February 7, 2024 |website=NK News – North Korea News |language=en-US}}</ref>
== Members in the United States who faced criminal charges == {{excerpt|List of Atomwaffen Division members in the United States who faced criminal charges|only=paragraph}}
== Non-US branches == === United Kingdom (Sonnenkrieg Division) === The '''Sonnenkrieg Division''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|z|ɒ|n|ə|n|ˌ|k|ɹ|iː|ɡ}}; ''Sonnenkrieg'' being German for "sun war") was a neo-Nazi group that was the United Kingdom-based branch of the Atomwaffen Division, and it maintained its links to the Atomwaffen Division by e-mail and chat room discussion as well as by its use of similar names and its distribution of similar propaganda. It surfaced in December 2018, when it was revealed that members of the group had suggested on the group's Discord server that Prince Harry was a "race traitor" who should be shot for marrying Meghan Markle, who is of mixed race; that police officers should be raped and killed; and that white women who date non-whites should be hanged.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hymas |first1=Charles |date=February 24, 2020 |title=Neo-Nazi group that urged attacks on Prince Harry is banned by Government |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/02/24/neo-nazi-group-urged-attacks-prince-harry-banned-government/ |access-date=February 20, 2023 |work=The Daily Telegraph}}</ref> At its formation in 2018, the group was thought to have had 10 to 15 members in the UK and Europe, and some suspected members were thought to have been involved in a previous neo-Nazi group, the System Resistance Network (one of the aliases of National Action), which was linked to various acts of racial violence and arson in the UK.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sanford |first1=Daniel |last2=DeSimone |first2=Daniel |date=December 5, 2018 |title=System Resistance Network: Neo-Nazi group 'should be illegal' |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-46292599 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190803075305/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-46292599 |archive-date=August 3, 2019 |access-date=August 3, 2019 |work=BBC News}}</ref> The BBC revealed that the leaders of the group were Andrew Dymock, 21, and Oskar Dunn-Koczorowski, 18.<ref name="BBC News">{{cite news |date=August 3, 2019 |title=British Neo-Nazis suggest Prince Harry should be shot |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46460442 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200419032642/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46460442 |archive-date=April 19, 2020 |access-date=December 6, 2018 |work=BBC News}}</ref>
Police arrested three suspected members of the Sonnenkrieg Division in early December 2018 as part of an "ongoing investigation into extreme right-wing activity". MI5, the British domestic intelligence agency, took the lead in the government's monitoring of far-right terrorism.<ref>{{cite news |last=Dodd |first=Vikram |date=October 28, 2018 |title=MI5 to take over in fight against rise of UK rightwing extremism |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/oct/28/mi5-lead-battle-against-uk-rightwing-extremists-police-action |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200504020140/https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/oct/28/mi5-lead-battle-against-uk-rightwing-extremists-police-action |archive-date=May 4, 2020 |access-date=December 22, 2018 |work=The Guardian}}</ref> On June 18, 2019, Sonnenkrieg members Dunn-Koczorowski and Michal Szewczuk, 19, were jailed for terrorism offenses. According to the prosecutor the men promoted "engaging in a "total attack" on the system", Dunn-Koczorowski having proclaimed "terror is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death" and were intent on action. Furthermore, the group was influenced by James Mason who "may well represent the most violent, revolutionary and potentially terroristic expression of right-wing extremism current today". Dunn-Koczorowski was sentenced to 18 months in prison for encouraging terrorism, and Szewczuk was sentenced to four years in prison for encouraging terrorism and possessing documents that are useful to a terrorist, such as bomb-making instructions.<ref>{{cite news |date=June 18, 2019 |title=Teenage neo-Nazis jailed over terror offences |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-48672929 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200310211745/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-48672929 |archive-date=March 10, 2020 |access-date=June 18, 2019 |work=BBC}}</ref>
Hope not Hate's annual "State of hate" report concluded the Sonnenkrieg Division had been influenced by the Order of Nine Angles and it was more extreme and potentially more violent than National Action. Within the "State of hate" report: "some members have also carried out some of these satanic fantasies and allegations of rape and imprisonment against their own members are circulating." Sonnenkrieg Division members had shared videos of one female supporter being tortured and scored with a knife by one of the group's male members.<ref name="hopenothate_2019-02"/> The private messages which belonged to Sonnenkrieg Division and were acquired by the police included footage of the members of the group abusing women, such as images of the rape of a woman, who had a swastika and runes cut into her flesh.<ref name="hopenothate_2020- Ireland 10-20 member. 02" /><ref name="auto">{{cite news |date=December 5, 2018 |title=British Neo-Nazis suggest Prince Harry should be shot |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-46460442 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200508201350/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-46460442 |archive-date=May 8, 2020 |access-date=February 20, 2019 |work=BBC News}}</ref>
On February 20, 2019, Jacek Tchorzewski, 18, was stopped by the counter-terrorism unit at Luton Airport. He was arrested on suspicion of terror offenses, and the police uncovered "an enormous amount" of manuals on how to make weapons and explosives and Nazi propaganda. In court, it was heard Tchorzewski had said it was "his dream" to commit a terrorist attack and he intended to smuggle firearms and explosives from Germany for this purpose. Also presented was a notebook from his prison cell where he had written, "Let's fill our hearts with terror and London's streets with blood." Commander Richard Smith, the head of the counter terrorism unit, said that Tchorzewski was connected to the Sonnenkrieg Division. Judge Anuja Dhir said Tchorzewski was a "deeply entrenched neo-Nazi with an interest in Satanism and occult practices" and an "offender of particular concern". On September 20, 2019, Tchorzewski was sentenced to four years imprisonment for terrorism offenses at the Old Bailey.<ref>{{cite news |date=September 20, 2019 |title=Extreme right-wing teenager jailed for terrorism offences |url=https://news.met.police.uk/news/extreme-right-wing-teenager-jailed-for-terrorism-offences-382172 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190925081125/http://news.met.police.uk/news/extreme-right-wing-teenager-jailed-for-terrorism-offences-382172 |archive-date=September 25, 2019 |access-date=June 23, 2020 |work=Met Police News}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=September 20, 2019 |title=High Wycombe neo-Nazi Jacek Tchorzewski jailed for terror offences |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-49773773 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191018171454/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-49773773 |archive-date=October 18, 2019 |access-date=September 20, 2019 |work=BBC News}}</ref>
On December 4, 2019, Andrew Dymock was arrested and charged with 15 terror offenses, including encouraging terrorism and raising funds for a terrorist group. He was first arrested in June 2018 at Gatwick Airport on his way to the United States. Dymock was questioned over alleged sexual offenses against a teenage girl, in connection to the earlier assaults on women.<ref name="auto"/><ref>{{cite news |date=December 11, 2019 |title=Alleged neo-Nazi Andrew Dymock in court over terror charges |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-50666909 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191206073409/https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/uk-50666909 |archive-date=December 6, 2019 |access-date=December 11, 2019 |work=BBC News}}</ref> He was convicted on all counts on June 12, 2021,<ref>{{cite news |date=June 12, 2021 |title=Andrew Dymock: Neo-Nazi guilty of terrorism charges |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-somerset-57439480 |work=BBC News}}</ref> and sentenced to seven years' imprisonment on July 21, 2021.<ref>{{cite news |date=July 21, 2021 |title=Neo-Nazi Andrew Dymock jailed for terror and hate crimes |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-somerset-57920928 |access-date=July 21, 2021 |work=BBC News}}</ref>
15 year old Rhianan Rudd allegedly planned blowing up a synagogue and was arrested in October 2020 in the United Kingdom. The Home Office dropped the charges after concluding "she had been a victim of trafficking who had been groomed and sexually exploited." Rudd was allegedly radicalized by Atomwaffen and ONA. She died by suicide on May 19, 2022.<ref>{{cite web |date=February 28, 2025 |title=Schoolgirl who killed herself after terror charges 'wanted to blow up synagogue' |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/27/rhianan-rudd-terror-charges-blow-up-synagogue-suicide-uk/ |work=telegraph.co.uk}}</ref>
In February 2020, Sonnenkrieg Division became the second far-right group to be banned as a terrorist organization after National Action.<ref name=BBC/>
On September 2, 2020, Harry Vaughan pleaded guilty to 14 terrorism offenses and possession of child pornography. Vaughan was connected to both National Action and Sonnenkrieg Division. A police search of his house uncovered child pornography, documents showing how to build bombs and detonators, and "satanic, neo-Nazi" ONA books advising rape and murder. In addition to this, he was described at the Old Bailey as a firearms enthusiast living with his two young sisters at the time of the arrest.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gardham |first1=Duncan |date=September 3, 2020 |title=Grammar pupil had bomb guides and fascist links |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/grammar-pupil-had-bomb-guides-and-fascist-links-scfhwd8jg |url-access=subscription |work=The Times}}</ref> In June 2023, Vaughan pleaded guilty to new charges for his production of child pornography.<ref>{{cite web |date=June 15, 2023 |title=Satanist neo-Nazi who was spared jail as a teen admits new sex crimes |url=https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/satanist-neo-nazi-who-was-spared-jail-as-a-teen-admits-new-sex-crimes/ar-AA1czWdG |work=MSN}}</ref>
On March 2, 2021, the Australian home affairs minister, Peter Dutton, accepted an Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) recommendation to label Sonnenkrieg Division a "terrorist organisation", citing their reach into Australia.<ref>{{cite web |date=March 2, 2021 |title=Attack on Channel 9 security guard |url=https://www.qt.com.au/news/attack-on-channel-9-security-guard/4207550/ |work=Queensland Times}}</ref> The Sonnenkrieg Division was officially proscribed in Australia on March 22, 2021.<ref name=Australia/>
A Buckinghamshire man planned to attack his Jewish neighbors and broadcast it live in December 2022. High Wycombe Youth Court ordered him to take part in a two-year rehabilitation program in 2023.<ref>{{cite web |date=December 22, 2023 |title=נער תכנן "לשדר בשידור חי" התקפה על יהודים |url=https://www.inn.co.il/news/623939 |work=Arutz Sheva}}</ref> It was reported by the Economist that British Atomwaffen members took part in the 2024 United Kingdom riots.<ref>{{cite news |date=August 7, 2024 |title=Inside the unrest disfiguring English cities |url=https://www.economist.com/britain/2024/08/04/inside-the-unrest-disfiguring-english-cities |newspaper=The Economist}}</ref> Telegram channels linked to Atomwaffen also "co-ordinated promotion and planning of riots".<ref>{{cite web |date=August 8, 2024 |title=The extremists stoking hate, from hooligan firms to fascist fight club |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/the-extremists-stoking-hate-from-hooligan-firms-to-fascist-fight-club-h90qdq569 |work=The Times |quote=A British-based company called Logically, which tackles disinformation, has uncovered co-ordinated promotion and planning of riots by an international network of "extreme right-wing Telegram channels" with links to the proscribed terrorist groups Atomwaffen Division and National Action. Key findings from its investigation revealed that "accelerationist terrorist ideology" from prescribed groups was found in online networks, targeting immigration offices and asylum law firms, to "escalate tensions and provoke a race war".}}</ref>
It was added to the UK's list of Proscribed terrorist groups or organizations in 2021, an order which also contained its NSO name.<ref>{{cite web |title=Proscribed terrorist groups or organisations |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/proscribed-terror-groups-or-organisations--2/proscribed-terrorist-groups-or-organisations-accessible-version |access-date=September 6, 2025 |website=GOV.UK |language=en}}</ref>
=== Germany (AWD Deutschland) === On June 1, 2018, in a video in German and English titled {{lang|de|AWD Deutschland: Die Messer werden schon gewetzet}} ("AWD Germany: The knives are already being sharpened"), the group announced the establishment of a cell or branch in Germany, followed by the promise of a "long fight". The group's flyers were spotted in Berlin, targeting students.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Epp |first1=Alexander |last2=Höfner |first2=Roman |date=September 7, 2018 |title=The Hate Network: An Inside Look at a Global Extremist Group |url=https://www.spiegel.de/international/the-hate-network-an-inside-look-at-a-global-extremist-group-a-1226861.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190630172103/https://www.spiegel.de/international/the-hate-network-an-inside-look-at-a-global-extremist-group-a-1226861.html |archive-date=June 30, 2019 |access-date=June 16, 2019 |newspaper=Der Spiegel}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=November 7, 2018 |title=Mögliche Aktivitäten der neonazistchen Gruppierung 'Atomwaffen Division' auch in Deutschland |trans-title=Possible activities of the neo-Nazi group 'Atomwaffen Division' also in Germany |url=https://dipbt.bundestag.de/doc/btd/19/033/1903359.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327162522/http://dipbt.bundestag.de/doc/btd/19/033/1903359.pdf |archive-date=March 27, 2019 |access-date=March 16, 2019 |language=de}}</ref> In June 2019, Atomwaffen propaganda was discovered in a Turkish neighborhood in Cologne that had been the site of a nail bomb attack motivated by ethnic hatred in 2004, threatening further similar attacks.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Neo-Nazi pamphlets target Cologne area hit by racist nail bomb |url=https://www.dw.com/en/neo-nazi-pamphlets-target-cologne-area-hit-by-racist-nail-bomb/a-49108944 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190618120202/https://www.dw.com/en/neo-nazi-pamphlets-target-cologne-area-hit-by-racist-nail-bomb/a-49108944 |archive-date=June 18, 2019 |access-date=June 18, 2019 |publisher=Deutsche Welle}}</ref>
In November 2018, an unnamed American activist who had emigrated to Germany for safety reasons due to threats from Atomwaffen Division received a call from the Federal Criminal Police Office to urgently come to authorities. Atomwaffen members had traveled to Germany and the police believed they were in imminent danger of being murdered by the group based on a tip from the FBI.<ref>{{Cite news |date=November 8, 2019 |title=US-Neonazis verfolgten Aktivistin bis nach Deutschland |trans-title=US neo-Nazis followed an activist to Germany |url=https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/atomwaffen-division-us-neonazis-stellten-aktivistin-in-deutschland-nach-a-1295514.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191108231321/https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/atomwaffen-division-us-neonazis-stellten-aktivistin-in-deutschland-nach-a-1295514-amp.html |archive-date=November 8, 2019 |access-date=November 8, 2019 |newspaper=Der Spiegel}}</ref>
In October 2019, people claiming to be members of the organization sent death threats to German politicians Cem Özdemir and Claudia Roth. "At the moment, we are planning how and when we will execute you; At the next public rally? Or will we get you in front of your home?" read part of the message sent to the office of Özdemir,<ref>{{Cite news |date=November 2, 2019 |title=Roth und Özdemir bekommen Morddrohungen von Neonazi-Netzwerk |url=https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/e-mails-von-atomwaffen-division-roth-und-oezdemir-bekommen-morddrohungen-von-neonazi-netzwerk/25182140.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191103130315/https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/e-mails-von-atomwaffen-division-roth-und-oezdemir-bekommen-morddrohungen-von-neonazi-netzwerk/25182140.html |archive-date=November 3, 2019 |access-date=November 3, 2019 |newspaper=Der Tagesspiegel Online |publisher=Tagesspiegel}}</ref> who has Circassian roots. The death threats were condemned by Angela Merkel, and Interior Ministry spokesman Steve Alter commented the security services have "already had this group in their sights for some time".<ref name="The Local">{{Cite news |date=November 4, 2019 |title=Outrage in Germany over neo-Nazis' political 'kill list' |url=https://www.thelocal.de/20191104/outrage-in-germany-over-neo-nazis-political-kill-list |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191213205254/https://www.thelocal.de/20191104/outrage-in-germany-over-neo-nazis-political-kill-list |archive-date=December 13, 2019 |access-date=November 4, 2019 |work=The Local}}</ref>
German T-Online managed to uncover the identity of one of the members of the group, who is referred to as "A" to comply with German privacy laws. "A"<!-- to avoid grammatical confusion, present consistently in quotation marks --> had previously instructed people on a now-defunct website how to handle chemicals and how to make the explosive HMTD. He also has a conviction for illegal possession of armor. According to the article "A" is also experienced in martial arts and his social media shows him practicing with guns. The group has a house for meetings somewhere in Eisenach in Thuringia.<ref>{{Cite news |date=November 14, 2019 |title=Spur zur 'Atomwaffen Division' führt nach Thüringen |trans-title=A clue for Atomwaffen leads to Thuringia |url=https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/deutschland/innenpolitik/id_86790692/-iron-march-daten-spuren-zur-atomwaffen-division-deutschland-fuehren-nach-eisenach.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200525022106/https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/deutschland/innenpolitik/id_86790692/neonazi-forum-spuren-zur-atomwaffen-division-fuehren-nach-thueringen.html/ |archive-date=May 25, 2020 |access-date=November 14, 2019 |work=T-Online |language=de}}</ref>
On February 5, 2020, a 22-year-old member was arrested in a Bavarian town near the Czech border and several firearms were confiscated from him. He was investigated on suspicion of preparing a terrorist attack. According to the German police the man had announced his intention of "martyring" himself in an attack against their "enemies" to other members of the group. In addition to this he allegedly instructed others how to procure and smuggle illegal firearms.<ref name="n-tv">{{Cite web |date=February 26, 2020 |title=Polizei entdeckt rechte Terrorzelle |trans-title=Police uncovers right-wing terrorist cell |url=https://www.n-tv.de/politik/Polizei-entdeckt-rechte-Terrorzelle-article21602397.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200524232104/https://www.n-tv.de/politik/Polizei-entdeckt-rechte-Terrorzelle-article21602397.html |archive-date=May 24, 2020 |access-date=February 26, 2020 |work=n-tv |language=de}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Winston |first1=Ali |date=March 25, 2020 |title=This Deadly Neo-Nazi Group's Media Obsession Could Be Its Downfall |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/neo-nazi-group-atomwaffen-divisions-media-obsession-could-be-its-downfall |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200301202124/https://www.thedailybeast.com/neo-nazi-group-atomwaffen-divisions-media-obsession-could-be-its-downfall |archive-date=March 1, 2020 |access-date=March 25, 2020 |work=Daily Beast |quote=Atomwaffen is also coming under pressure in Europe. This past week, ''Der Spiegel'' reported the head of the group's German offshoot had been arrested by local authorities.}}</ref><ref name="feuerkrieg">{{cite web |date=March 11, 2020 |title=Chats der 'Feuerkrieg Division' 'Wir töten jeden ...' |trans-title=Chats of the Fire War Division "We will kill everyone..." |url=https://www.n-tv.de/politik/Wir-toeten-jeden--article21609394.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200524232119/https://www.n-tv.de/politik/Wir-toeten-jeden--article21609394.html |archive-date=May 24, 2020 |access-date=March 11, 2020 |publisher=N-TV |language=de}}</ref>
It emerged that the Halle synagogue shooting perpetrator Stephan Balliet was in possession of material by Atomwaffen Division.<ref name="t-online">{{cite web |date=October 5, 2020 |title=Bundesanwaltschaft ermittelt gegen die 'Atomwaffendivision' |trans-title=Federal prosecutor investigates the "nuclear weapons division" |url=https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/deutschland/id_88530280/nach-drohungen-bundesanwaltschaft-ermittelt-gegen-die-atomwaffendivision-.html |publisher=t-online |language=de |quote=Gemeinsame Grundlage sind extremer Antisemitismus, Rassismus, Sexismus, ein Hang zum Okkultismus und hohe Internet-Affinität. Zuletzt stellte sich im Prozess um den Terroranschlag von Halle heraus, dass der Angeklagte Stephan B. Propagandamaterial der Gruppe besaß. |trans-quote=Common principles are extreme antisemitism, racism, sexism, a tendency towards occultism, and high internet affinity. Lastly, it emerged during the trial of the terror attack at Halle that the defendant, Stephan B., possessed propaganda material for the group.}}</ref>
In September 2021, a 20-year-old, Marvin E., from the northern Hessian town of Spangenberg, was arrested on suspicion of terrorism. The investigators found 600 self-made explosive devices belonging to him. According to the investigators the man had been in contact with the Atomwaffen Division.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Geisler |first1=Astrid |last2=Steinhagen |first2=Martín |date=December 7, 2021 |title=Spuren im Fall Spangenberg führen zur Atomwaffen Division |url=https://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/zeitgeschehen/2021-11/rechter-terror-spangenberg-atomwaffen-division |newspaper=Die Zeit |publisher=Zeit Online}}</ref> On May 8, 2023, Marvin E. was found guilty of forming a local chapter of Atomwaffen Division in Hesse, building explosives, procuring firearms and planning attacks with them, he was sentenced to 3 years and 10 months in prison.<ref>{{cite web |date=May 8, 2023 |title=German neo-Nazi jailed for plotting Atomwaffen-inspired racist terror attacks |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/german-neo-nazi-jailed-for-plotting-atomwaffen-inspired-racist-terror-attacks/ |work=Times of Israel}}</ref>
In April 2022, hundreds of police officers in eleven federal states took action against suspected members of the "Atomwaffen Division". Among the 50 accused members was a Bundeswehr sergeant. Kalashnikov rifles and gold bars were confiscated in the raids in addition to money and ammunition.<ref>{{cite web |date=April 14, 2022 |title=4 arrested for allegedly plotting to cause nationwide blackout and kidnap well-known figures to create "civil war" conditions in Germany |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/germany-arrests-blackout-kidnap-plot/ |website=CBS News}}</ref><ref name="raid">{{cite web |date=April 6, 2022 |title=Ermittler sprengen mutmaßliche Neonazi-Terrorgruppe |url=https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/atomwaffen-division-ermittler-sprengen-mutmassliche-neonazi-terrorgruppe-a-e4b2c639-8b0f-4c83-afc6-13e726c0eeb4 |publisher=Spiegel.de}}</ref>
After months of observation, the police took action in Potsdam on June 3, 2022, and arrested a 17-year-old neo-Nazi said to have prepared right-wing terrorist attacks. The teen was said to have obtained instructions for the construction of weapons, ammunition and explosive devices and chemicals for the construction of explosive devices, as well as having built explosive devices and incendiary devices himself and carried out initial explosive tests. According to the investigators, findings in his house and business premises confirmed the suspicion. The Brandenburg Public Prosecutor's Office initiated proceedings on suspicion of preparing a serious act of violence that is dangerous to the state, violating the explosives law and using signs of unconstitutional organizations.<ref>Alexander Fröhlich: [https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/brandenburger-polizei-vereitelt-anschlagplaene-jugendlicher-neonazi-aus-potsdam-soll-sprengsaetze-gebaut-haben/28400458.html ''Brandenburger Polizei vereitelt Anschlagpläne: Jugendlicher Neonazi aus Potsdam soll Sprengsätze gebaut haben.''] Tagesspiegel, 3. June 2022</ref>
On October 4, 2022, the trial of Maurice P. begun. Maurice was an alleged Atomwaffen Division member and was charged with attempted murder for cutting the throat of a Jamaican man, barely missing the carotid artery.<ref>{{cite web |date=October 4, 2022 |title=Hitlergruß am Denkmal |url=https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/prozess-gegen-berliner-neonazi-hitlergruss-am-denkmal-a-5cf70d06-948f-4a8a-9200-4b64c22e93ef?sara_ecid=soci_upd_wbMbjhOSvViISjc8RPU89NcCvtlFcJ |publisher=Der Spiegel}}</ref>
In November 2024, 450 German police and Austrian and Polish police raided 20 properties and arrested members of an Atomwaffen affiliated group. Kurt Hättasch, Kevin Richter and Hans-Georg Pförtsch, who were arrested in the raids, were members of the extremist right party Alternative for Germany (AfD). The cell leader of the group Jörg Schimanek was also involved in the illegal sale of Kalashnikovs, silencers and ammunition.<ref name="CMAS">{{cite web |author=Thilo Manemann |date=May 17, 2025 |title=German Users Within the Terrorgram Network: A Dark Field Study on the Activity of German Users in Militant Accelerationism |url=https://assets.ctfassets.net/jxoi5zxh0flm/vcVzt5R9ZikSIUEhS5sRX/cefa92e9b815fcc5db1380af8113052d/20250401_Researchpaper_Deutsche_TerrorgramEnglischVersion.pdf |work=Center for Monitoring, Analysis and Strategy}}</ref><ref name="WSWS">{{cite web |last=Nowak |first=Martin |date=November 18, 2024 |title=Germany: Who are the "Saxon Separatists?" |url=https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/11/18/6c08-n18.html |work=World Socialist Web Site}}</ref>
'''Atomwaffen Division Europe''' was a subgroup for Ukrainians and Poles affiliated with the Germans. One of the leaders of the group was Patrick G. who was connected to far-right music label ''Neuer Deutscher Standard'' and far-right fashion brand ''Isegrim Clothing''. The Polish police raided the apartment of a member and uncovered Nazi memorabilia and expensive body armor. According to an investigation by German Amadeu Antonio Foundation published on April 19, 2021, the members were acquiring Uzi submachine guns and had attended Azov training camps in Ukraine.<ref>{{cite web |date=April 19, 2021 |title=ATTEMPT TO RE-FORM ATOMWAFFEN DIVISION IN EUROPE |url=https://www.belltower.news/far-right-terrorism-attempt-to-re-form-atomwaffen-division-in-europe-114253/ |publisher=Amadeu Antonio Foundation}}</ref>
=== Canada (Northern Order) === The group also had a presence in Canada via an affiliated organization called '''Northern Order''' that included members of the Canadian Armed Forces. Members of the group had also been known to attend the Atomwaffen training camps in the United States.<ref>{{Cite news |date=July 10, 2018 |title=An American Neo-Nazi Group Has Dark Plans for Canada |url=https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ev847a/an-american-neo-nazi-group-has-dark-plans-for-canada |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200424143225/https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ev847a/an-american-neo-nazi-group-has-dark-plans-for-canada |archive-date=April 24, 2020 |access-date=March 16, 2019 |work=Vice |quote=[NO] is openly planning to create a hideout and European ethnostate in rural British Columbia favoring exclusively white settlers.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last1=Lamourex |first1=Mark |last2=Makuch |first2=Ben |date=June 19, 2018 |title=Atomwaffen, an American Neo-Nazi Terror Group, Is In Canada |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/atomwaffen-an-american-neo-nazi-terror-group-is-in-canada/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190624160659/https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a3a8ae/atomwaffen-an-american-neo-nazi-terror-group-is-in-canada |archive-date=June 24, 2019 |access-date=July 31, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last1=Lemourex |first1=Mark |last2=Makuch |first2=Ben |date=August 2, 2018 |title=Member of Neo-Nazi Group Appears to be Former Canadian Soldier |url=https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/7xqe82/member-of-neo-nazi-group-appears-to-be-former-canadian-soldier}}{{dead link|date=May 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> One of the pseudonymous individuals found to be part of the group was a 21-year-old "Dark Foreigner" who created propaganda for Atomwaffen.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Carranco |first1=Shannon |last2=Milton |first2=Jon |date=April 27, 2019 |title=Canada's new far right: A trove of private chat room messages reveals an extremist subculture |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-canadas-new-far-right-a-trove-of-private-chat-room-messages-reveals/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190501045338/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-canadas-new-far-right-a-trove-of-private-chat-room-messages-reveals/ |archive-date=May 1, 2019 |access-date=May 1, 2019 |work=The Globe and Mail}}</ref> The group celebrated the anniversary of the Quebec City mosque shooting by defacing Canadian mosques with neo-Nazi slogans. Gunfire was also reported outside a defaced mosque in Ottawa.<ref>{{Cite news |date=July 25, 2019 |title=Violent Neo-Nazi Group Has Disturbing Plans For Canada |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/violent-neo-nazi-group-has-disturbing-plans-for-canada/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200428093647/https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/ev847a/violent-neo-nazi-group-has-disturbing-plans-for-canada |archive-date=April 28, 2020 |access-date=June 25, 2019 |work=Vice}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=July 25, 2019 |title=Police probe hate posters on Bells Corners mosque |url=https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/police-probe-graffiti-at-bells-corners-mosque |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190627175140/https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/police-probe-graffiti-at-bells-corners-mosque |archive-date=June 27, 2019 |access-date=June 25, 2019 |work=Ottawa Citizen}}</ref>
A neo-Nazi affiliated with Atomwaffen serving in the Royal Canadian Navy was discovered to be selling handguns, assault rifles, grenades and RPG-7s from the Balkans to French neo-Nazis in Marseille. The man was discovered to be connected to Serbian Combat 18 and to another local neo-Nazi gang, "MC Srbi". It was confirmed the man had traveled to at least half a dozen cities in the Balkans to meet with his contacts and to procure firearms.<ref>{{cite web |date=November 15, 2019 |title=Fašistička braća (Fascist Brothers) |url=https://www.portalnovosti.com/fasisticka-braca |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191115161900/https://www.portalnovosti.com/fasisticka-braca |archive-date=November 15, 2019 |access-date=November 15, 2019 |work=Novosti}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=November 14, 2019 |title=Canadian Soldier With Ties To Neo-Nazi Terrorist Groups Arranged For Illegal Weapons Sale In Bosnia |url=https://www.antihate.ca/canadian_soldier_with_ties_to_neo_nazi_terrorist_groups |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191114201101/https://www.antihate.ca/canadian_soldier_with_ties_to_neo_nazi_terrorist_groups |archive-date=November 14, 2019 |access-date=November 14, 2019 |publisher=Canadian Anti-Hate Network}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=June 15, 2020 |title=Desničarske i neonacističke organizacije neometano ističu simbole u Prijedoru |url=https://detektor.ba/2020/05/12/desnicarske-i-neonacisticke-organizacije-neometano-isticu-simbole-u-prijedoru/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200605020840/https://detektor.ba/2020/05/12/desnicarske-i-neonacisticke-organizacije-neometano-isticu-simbole-u-prijedoru/ |archive-date=June 5, 2020 |access-date=June 15, 2020 |work=BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina}}</ref>
Master Corporal Patrik Jordan Mathews, 26, a trained explosives expert, was among the Canadian Armed Forces members accused of being connected to the group and recruiting for it. He was also accused of being affiliated with The Base. In August 2019, two days after being outed by the ''Winnipeg Free Press'' as a neo-Nazi recruiter, his truck was found abandoned near the border and it was suspected he was smuggled across the border and had gone underground in the United States.<ref>{{cite web |date=November 27, 2019 |title=Encyclopedia of hate: A look at the neo-Nazi militant movements with roots in Canada |url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/encyclopedia-of-hate-a-look-at-the-neo-nazi-militant-movements-with-roots-in-canada/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191127191411/https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/encyclopedia-of-hate-a-look-at-the-neo-nazi-militant-movements-with-roots-in-canada-1.4704470 |archive-date=November 27, 2019 |access-date=November 27, 2019 |work=CTV News |quote=Several Canadian military members have been accused of having ties to AWD, including Master Cpl. Patrik Matthews, a reservist who went missing in August after being relieved of his duties. It was suspected that Matthews was a recruiter for the neo-Nazi group.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Weill |first1=Kelly |date=November 27, 2019 |title=Missing Canadian Bomb Expert With Neo-Nazi Ties May Be in U.S. |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/patrik-mathews-missing-canadian-bomb-expert-with-ties-to-neo-nazi-group-the-base-may-be-in-us |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191207062922/https://www.thedailybeast.com/patrik-mathews-missing-canadian-bomb-expert-with-ties-to-neo-nazi-group-the-base-may-be-in-us |archive-date=December 7, 2019 |access-date=November 27, 2019 |work=Daily Beast}}</ref> Mathews was arrested in Maryland by the FBI in January 2020. Also arrested were two other members of the group accompanying him: 33-year-old Brian Lemley Jr, a US Army veteran, and 19-year-old William Bilbrough IV. According to the affidavit the men were building assault rifles and manufacturing the psychedelic drug DMT for occult rituals.<ref>{{cite news |date=October 15, 2020 |title=How One Man Built a Neo-Nazi Insurgency in Trump's America |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/how-one-man-built-a-neo-nazi-insurgency-in-trumps-america/ |work=Vice News}}</ref> They also possessed body armor, a machine gun and in excess of 1600 rounds of ammunition. They faced a maximum sentence of 50 years for firearm offenses, including transporting a machine gun and transporting a firearm and ammunition with intent to commit a felony. Mathews and Lemley were each sentenced to nine years in prison after pleading guilty. Bilbrough was sentenced to five years.<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 28, 2021 |title=District of Maryland {{!}} Two Members of the Violent Extremist Group "The Base" Each Sentenced to Nine Years in Federal Prison for Firearms and Alien-Related Charges |url=https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/two-members-violent-extremist-group-base-each-sentenced-nine-years-federal-prison |access-date=December 4, 2023 |publisher=United States Department of Justice}}</ref>
According to the law enforcement officials the men had planned opening fire from multiple positions on the upcoming 2020 VCDL Lobby Day rally. Bilbrough had also previously talked about fighting with the Azov Battalion.<ref>{{cite web |date=January 16, 2020 |title=FBI arrests 3 neo-Nazi suspects with weapons planning to attend gun rally in Richmond |url=https://wset.com/news/at-the-capitol/fbi-arrests-3-neo-nazi-suspects-with-weapons-planning-to-attend-gun-rally-in-richmond |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200117110820/https://wset.com/news/at-the-capitol/fbi-arrests-3-neo-nazi-suspects-with-weapons-planning-to-attend-gun-rally-in-richmond |archive-date=January 17, 2020 |access-date=January 16, 2020 |work=WSET-TV}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=January 17, 2020 |title=Opening Fire at Pro-Gun Rally in Richmond, Officials Say |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/men-discussed-opening-fire-at-pro-gun-rally-in-richmond-officials-say-11579291691 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200117204453/https://www.wsj.com/articles/men-discussed-opening-fire-at-pro-gun-rally-in-richmond-officials-say-11579291691 |archive-date=January 17, 2020 |access-date=January 17, 2020 |work=WSET-TV}}</ref> Mathews had instructed others to "Derail some fucking trains, kill some people and poison some water supplies{{spaces}}... If you want the white race to survive, you're going to have to do your fucking part." Lemley told that he could not wait and was excited "to claim my first kill", and said they could ambush and kill police officers and steal their equipment.<ref>{{cite web |date=January 22, 2020 |title=Documents: Extremist group wanted rally to start civil war |url=https://apnews.com/e5d17a8735678aa604a22f011c2685db |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200122080914/https://apnews.com/e5d17a8735678aa604a22f011c2685db |archive-date=January 22, 2020 |access-date=January 22, 2020 |work=Associated Press}}</ref>
Another Canadian neo-Nazi attempted to cross the US border a few months after Mathews in November 2019, but was detained by the US Customs and Border Protection's Tactical Terrorism Response Team. It discovered an assault rifle, a shotgun and a pistol and a large amount of Atomwaffen Division propaganda. According to a Federal Bureau of Investigation affidavit, the man was going to meet American neo-Nazis with whom he had discussed attacking electrical sub-stations to cause power outages.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Blackwell |first1=Tom |date=January 15, 2021 |title=Gun-toting Canadian triggers FBI probe of alleged white-supremacist terror plot tied to U.S. election |url=https://nationalpost.com/news/gun-toting-canadian-triggers-fbi-probe-of-alleged-white-supremacist-terror-plot-tied-to-u-s-election |newspaper=National Post}}</ref>
On September 18, 2020, Toronto Police arrested 34-year-old Guilherme "William" Von Neutegem and charged him with the murder of Mohamed-Aslim Zafis. Zafis was the caretaker of a local mosque who was found dead with his throat cut. The Toronto Police Service said the killing was possibly connected to the stabbing murder of Rampreet Singh a few days prior a short distance from the spot where Zafis' murder took place. Von Neutegem was a member of the O9A and social media accounts established as belonging to him promote the group and included recordings of Von Neutegem performing satanic chants. In his home there was also an altar with the symbol of the O9A adorning a monolith.<ref>{{cite web |date=September 18, 2020 |title=Suspect In Fatal Stabbing Outside Toronto Mosque Appears To Follow Hitler-Worshipping Satanist Movement |url=https://www.antihate.ca/suspect_stabbing_toronto_mosque_follow_hitler_worshiping_satanist_movement |publisher=Canadian Anti-Hate Network}}</ref> According to Evan Balgord of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, they were aware of more O9A members in Canada and their affiliated organization Northern Order.<ref>{{cite news |date=October 5, 2020 |title=Police should seek expert help with hate-crime inspired murder at Toronto mosque |url=https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2020/09/29/police-should-seek-expert-help-with-hate-crime-inspired-murder.html |newspaper=Toronto Star |quote=Today, [O9A] adherents are infiltrating and influencing a new generation of neo-Nazi terrorist groups like Atomwaffen Division Canada [Northern Order]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=September 30, 2020 |title='Random' Murder of Muslim Man Linked to 'Neo-Nazi Death Cult': Report |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/random-murder-of-muslim-man-linked-to-neo-nazi-death-cult-report/}}</ref>
Canadian Armed Forces launched an internal investigation in October 2020 after a special forces soldier with the CJIRU was identified as a member of the Northern Order and Order of Nine Angles. According to the SPLC, the man was among "some pretty well-known, high-up people in these organizations" and an acquaintance of Mathews and Mason.<ref>{{cite news |date=October 22, 2020 |title=Canadian Forces investigates after mystery man in secret recording claims to be a soldier – and a neo-Nazi |url=https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/2020/10/22/canadian-forces-investigates-after-mystery-man-in-secret-recording-claims-to-be-a-soldier-and-a-neo-nazi.html |work=The Toronto Star}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=November 9, 2020 |title=Integrated national security efforts that include more stringent security screening should weed out violent white supremacists in Canadian military |url=https://www.hilltimes.com/2020/11/09/integrated-national-security-efforts-that-include-more-stringent-security-screening-should-weed-out-violent-white-supremacists-in-the-canadian-military/270485 |work=Hill Times}}</ref>
The group was designated as a terrorist organization on February 3, 2021.<ref name="Canadian Anti-Hate Network" /><ref>{{cite web |date=February 3, 2021 |title=Government of Canada lists 13 new groups as terrorist entities and completes review of seven others |url=https://www.canada.ca/en/public-safety-canada/news/2021/02/government-of-canada-lists-13-new-groups-as-terrorist-entities-and-completes-review-of-seven-others.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210203182322/https://www.canada.ca/en/public-safety-canada/news/2021/02/government-of-canada-lists-13-new-groups-as-terrorist-entities-and-completes-review-of-seven-others.html |archive-date=February 3, 2021 |access-date=February 3, 2021 |website=Government of Canada}}</ref>
In May 2022, RCMP laid terrorism charge against Seth Bertrand of Ontario over alleged links to Atomwaffen. He was also charged with vandalizing a transgender center.<ref>{{cite news |date=May 7, 2022 |title=RCMP lay terrorism charge against Ontario man over alleged links to Atomwaffen neo-Nazi group |url=https://globalnews.ca/news/8814907/rcmp-terrorism-charge-ontario-man-atomwaffen-neo-nazi-group/ |work=Global News}}</ref> In June 2022 the RCMP raided houses in St-Ferdinand and Plessisville in rural Quebec allegedly connected Atomwaffen Division.<ref>{{cite news |date=June 17, 2022 |title=Canadian Police Just Raided the Homes of Multiple Neo-Nazi Terror Suspects |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/canada-atomwaffen-division-raid/ |work=Vice News}}</ref> ''La Presse'' subsequently reported the raids were related to an Atomwaffen training camp in an old school building in Victoriaville.<ref>{{cite news |date=June 17, 2022 |title=Un " camp de la haine " tenu par un groupe néonazi |url=https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/justice-et-faits-divers/2022-06-29/centre-du-quebec/un-camp-de-la-haine-tenu-par-un-groupe-neonazi.php |work=La Presse}}</ref> Member of the Northern Order Patrick Gordon Macdonald was arrested on July 5, 2023, by the Canadian Police and charged with participating in a terrorist group, facilitating terrorist activity, and commission of an offense for a terrorist group.<ref>{{cite news |date=July 5, 2023 |title=Canadian Police Just Arrested Influential Neo-Nazi 'Dark Foreigner' |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/dark-foreigner-arrested-canada-terrorism/ |work=Vice News}}</ref>
On December 8, 2023, two Ontario men Kristoffer Nippak and Matthew Althorpe were charged with making propaganda for Atomwaffen and membership in a terrorist group.<ref>{{cite news |date=December 8, 2023 |title=Two Ontario men arrested on Terrorism charges |url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/two-ontario-men-arrested-terrorism-140000293.html |work=Yahoo}}<br />- {{cite news |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/neo-nazis-arrested/ |title=Authorities Name Alleged Neo-Nazis Charged With Terrorism |work=Vice News |date=December 9, 2023}}</ref> On October 30, 2024, a Canadian Atomwaffen member named Alexander Moucka was arrested. Moucka is alleged to have hacked the customer information from 160 companies and extorting them with it. AT&T alone paid $370,000 to get the stolen information removed.<ref>{{cite web |date=November 5, 2024 |title=Canadian Man Arrested in Snowflake Data Extortions |url=https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/11/canadian-man-arrested-in-snowflake-data-extortions/ |work=krebsonsecurity}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=February 28, 2025 |title=Unlikely Trio Linked to Hack of AT&T Data, Attempt to Sell It |url=https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/unlikely-trio-linked-to-hack-of-att-data-attempt-to-sell-it |work=Financial Post |quote=In addition, [Moucka] boasted about knowing key members of Atomwaffen Division, a neo-Nazi group, according to messages seen by Bloomberg.}}</ref>
=== Baltic states (Feuerkrieg Division) === In October 2018, a group which was modeled after Atomwaffen and called itself the '''Feuerkrieg Division''' (German for "Fire War Division") was established in the Baltic states, most likely in Saaremaa, Estonia where several members of its leadership resided.<ref>{{cite news |last=Kataja |first=Marika |date=July 2, 2020 |title=Virolainen teinipoika johti kansainvälistä uusnatsiryhmää pikkukaupungista Saarenmaalta, jäsenet valmistelivat pommi-iskuja Yhdysvalloissa |trans-title=International neo-Nazi group led from small town in Saaremaa in Estonia, members preparing bomb attacks |url=https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-11303442 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200703124217/https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-11303442 |archive-date=July 3, 2020 |access-date=July 3, 2020 |work=Yle |language=fi}}</ref><ref name="Feuerkrieg Division FKD">{{Cite web |date=October 9, 2019 |title=Feuerkrieg Division (FKD) |url=https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounders/feuerkrieg-division-fkd |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200105132346/https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounders/feuerkrieg-division-fkd |archive-date=January 5, 2020 |access-date=October 9, 2019 |publisher=Anti-Defamation League}}</ref> In mid-2019, the Feuerkrieg gained attention when it issued death threats against Belgian MEP Guy Verhofstadt and YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki.<ref>{{Cite web |date=April 8, 2019 |title=Armed neo-Nazi group issues death threat to Guy Verhofstadt |url=https://www.neweurope.eu/article/armed-neo-nazi-group-issues-death-threat-to-guy-verhofstadt/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190623165722/https://www.neweurope.eu/article/armed-neo-nazi-group-issues-death-threat-to-guy-verhofstadt/ |archive-date=June 23, 2019 |access-date=June 7, 2019 |work=New Europe}}</ref> It had previously praised the actions of Dylann Roof, Robert Bowers, Timothy McVeigh and Brenton Harrison Tarrant, and encouraged violence against government authorities, Jews, LGBTQ people, leftists and feminists.<ref>{{Cite web |date=April 9, 2019 |title=Extremist Content Online: Atomwaffen Division Content Reuploaded to YouTube Despite Ban |url=https://www.counterextremism.com/press/extremist-content-online-atomwaffen-division-content-reuploaded-youtube-despite-ban |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190607031936/https://www.counterextremism.com/press/extremist-content-online-atomwaffen-division-content-reuploaded-youtube-despite-ban |archive-date=June 7, 2019 |access-date=June 7, 2019 |publisher=Counter Extremism Project}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=February 11, 2019 |title=Extremist Content Online: Neo-Nazis Continue Recruiting |url=https://www.counterextremism.com/press/extremist-content-online-neo-nazis-continue-recruiting |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190607025503/https://www.counterextremism.com/press/extremist-content-online-neo-nazis-continue-recruiting |archive-date=June 7, 2019 |access-date=June 7, 2019 |publisher=Counter Extremism Project}}</ref> Propaganda videos produced by the group showed its members building and detonating homemade explosive devices in Estonia.<ref>{{Cite news |date=June 14, 2019 |title=After Facebook and Web Host Bans, Far-Right Extremists Are Encrypting and Going IRL |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/after-facebook-and-web-host-bans-far-right-extremists-are-encrypting-and-going-irl/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200122041810/https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/j5wx74/after-facebook-and-web-host-bans-far-right-extremists-are-encrypting-and-going-irl |archive-date=January 22, 2020 |access-date=June 14, 2019 |work=Vice}}</ref> Feuerkrieg also shared a video among its members that instructs how to make TATP bombs, used by ISIS in the Manchester Arena bombing.<ref name=osama /> On June 13, 2019, Feuerkrieg Division announced their presence in Ireland and encouraged people in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and Germany to join the intercontinental network.{{citation needed|date=December 2021}} Later that year the Bundespolizei announced it had deported a member of the Atomwaffen network to Ireland for his role in a murder plot.<ref>{{cite news |date=November 25, 2019 |title=Alleged neo-Nazi returns to US after almost two weeks in Ireland |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/alleged-neo-nazi-returns-to-us-after-almost-two-weeks-in-ireland-1.4094588 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200523225932/https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/alleged-neo-nazi-returns-to-us-after-almost-two-weeks-in-ireland-1.4094588 |archive-date=May 23, 2020 |access-date=July 17, 2020 |work=Irish Times}}</ref>
According to Eesti Rahvusringhääling, an investigation revealed that Estonian MP Ruuben Kaalep (EKRE) was connected to British neo-Nazi terrorists from the former National Action who went on to form the British branch of the Atomwaffen Division, which subsequently opened a branch in Kaalep's native Estonia in the form of the Feuerkrieg Division.<ref>{{cite news |date=July 10, 2019 |title=EKRE MP Ruuben Kaalep has long history of neo-Nazi activity |url=https://news.err.ee/926367/weekly-ekre-mp-ruuben-kaalep-has-long-history-of-neo-nazi-activity |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200508103640/https://news.err.ee/926367/weekly-ekre-mp-ruuben-kaalep-has-long-history-of-neo-nazi-activity |archive-date=May 8, 2020 |access-date=July 10, 2019 |work=Eesti Rahvusringhääling}}</ref> ADL and Hope not Hate also confirmed that American and English Nazis and Azov members had visited Tallinn multiple times, organizing events with Kaalep and Feuerkrieg "which began in early 2019, originally organized with Sonnenkrieg" before becoming a full-fledged branch. The Finnish Resistance Movement and its successor Atomwaffen Finland cooperated with the group as well.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hate Beyond Borders: The Internationalization of White Supremacy |url=https://www.adl.org/resources/reports/hate-beyond-borders-the-internationalization-of-white-supremacy |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190927021243/https://www.adl.org/resources/reports/hate-beyond-borders-the-internationalization-of-white-supremacy |archive-date=September 27, 2019 |access-date=September 18, 2019 |publisher=Anti-Defamation League}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=September 26, 2019 |title=Simon Murdoch: Away from the public eye, the youth-wings of Europe's far-right parties are collaborating and have some very concerning ties |url=https://www.hopenothate.org.uk/2019/05/17/the-renaissance-of-europes-far-right-party-youth-wings/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190926140733/https://www.hopenothate.org.uk/2019/05/17/the-renaissance-of-europes-far-right-party-youth-wings/ |archive-date=September 26, 2019 |access-date=September 26, 2019 |work=Hope not Hate}}</ref> Kaalep was also found to have been organizing firearms training with pistols and assault rifles to groups of youths recruited from Blue Awakening, some of whom wore skull masks associated with Atomwaffen and were shown doing Nazi salutes. Kaalep had said that they are ready for armed combat and the collapse of law and order. The Estonian Internal Security Service had earlier expressed its concern over his events.<ref>{{cite news |date=September 12, 2019 |title=EKRE-noored käivad Ruuben Kaalepiga lasketiirus kõmmutamas ja levitavad endist häirivaid pilte koos relvadega |trans-title=EKRE youth share disturbing pictures with guns at a shooting range with Ruuben Kaalep |url=https://www.ohtuleht.ee/976532/video-ekre-noored-kaivad-ruuben-kaalepiga-lasketiirus-kommutamas-ja-levitavad-endist-hairivaid-pilte-koos-relvadega |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418110411/https://www.ohtuleht.ee/976532/video-ekre-noored-kaivad-ruuben-kaalepiga-lasketiirus-kommutamas-ja-levitavad-endist-hairivaid-pilte-koos-relvadega |archive-date=April 18, 2020 |access-date=September 12, 2019 |work=Õhtuleht |language=et}}</ref>
On September 2, 2019, the British police arrested a 16-year-old Feuerkrieg member for plotting a mass shooting and arson attacks. The army cadet had professed his admiration for Adolf Hitler and James Mason. Prosecutor Michelle Nelson said he adhered to "occult Nazism" and satanism. He had also allegedly surveyed the synagogues in the Durham area in preparation for the attack and talked with another man about buying a gun from him. He also tried to obtain a dangerous chemical from his neo-Nazi friend. The boy wrote in his journal how he needed to "shed empathy" in preparation for the attack.<ref>{{cite news |date=November 20, 2019 |title=Durham teen neo-Nazi became 'living dead' |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-50397477 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200301202113/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-50397477 |archive-date=March 1, 2020 |access-date=November 20, 2019 |work=BBC News}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=September 13, 2019 |title=16-year-old Hitler worshipper 'planned terror attack' |url=https://courtnewsuk.co.uk/16-year-old-hitler-worshipper-planned-terror-attack/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190926174156/https://courtnewsuk.co.uk/16-year-old-hitler-worshipper-planned-terror-attack/ |archive-date=September 26, 2019 |access-date=September 13, 2019 |work=Court News UK}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=October 31, 2019 |title=Teenage neo-Nazi wrote list of venues 'worth attacking' and hoped to follow in footsteps of Hitler, jury hears |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/teenage-neo-nazi-durham-adolf-hitler-manchester-crown-court-a9151441.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191031203519/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/teenage-neo-nazi-durham-adolf-hitler-manchester-crown-court-a9151441.html |archive-date=October 31, 2019 |access-date=October 31, 2019 |work=The Independent}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=October 31, 2019 |title='Neo-Nazi' teen 'listed terror attack targets' |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-50005924 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191102151904/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-50005924 |archive-date=November 2, 2019 |access-date=October 31, 2019 |work=BBC News}}</ref> The group published the addresses of the force's station buildings, custody suites and training centers in retaliation and encouraged its members and sympathizers to kill West Midlands Chief Constable Dave Thompson. It was added that all police are "race traitors" and that police stations should be "considered high value targets to any local NS [National Socialist]".<ref>{{cite news |date=September 20, 2019 |title=Neo‑Nazis list police addresses and order attacks |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/neo-nazis-list-police-addresses-and-order-attacks-r655gj2wl |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200311030206/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/neo-nazis-list-police-addresses-and-order-attacks-r655gj2wl |archive-date=March 11, 2020 |access-date=September 21, 2019 |work=The Times}}</ref> On November 20, 2019, he was found guilty of preparing a terrorist attack and several other terror offenses and was awaiting sentencing in custody.<ref>{{cite news |date=November 20, 2019 |title='Neo-Nazi' teen 'listed terror attack targets' |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-50470957 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200114024702/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-50470957 |archive-date=January 14, 2020 |access-date=November 20, 2019 |work=BBC News}}</ref> In addition to the terror offenses, he was charged with sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl.<ref>{{cite news |date=July 23, 2020 |title=Teenage 'white supremacist' who wanted race war sexually assaulted 12-year-old girl, court hears |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/far-right-terrorism-uk-white-supremacy-durham-sex-offences-court-a8986441.html |work=The Independent}}</ref> He was eventually convicted of five sexual assaults in addition to the terror offenses.<ref>{{cite news |date=December 30, 2020 |title=Neo-Nazi terror teen who plotted attacks on Durham buildings makes bid to remain anonymous |url=https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/neo-nazi-terror-teen-who-19533739 |work=Evening Chronicle}}</ref>
On October 8, 2019, Feuerkrieg Division took responsibility for the unsuccessful bombing of Western Union offices on the Balčikonis street in Vilnius, Lithuania, posting footage of the bomb being constructed and stated that "Our threats are not empty". Nazi symbols were also spray painted on the building.<ref>{{cite news |date=October 9, 2019 |title=Neo-Nazi Group Posts Video, Claims Placing Explosives And Swastika Graffiti in Lithuania |url=https://ent.siteintelgroup.com/Far-Right-/-Far-Left-Threat/neo-nazi-group-posts-video-claims-placing-explosive-and-swastika-graffiti-in-lithuania.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191010085703/https://ent.siteintelgroup.com/Far-Right-/-Far-Left-Threat/neo-nazi-group-posts-video-claims-placing-explosive-and-swastika-graffiti-in-lithuania.html |archive-date=October 10, 2019 |access-date=October 10, 2019 |publisher=SITE Intelligence Group}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=October 9, 2019 |title=Vilniuje ant pastato sienos išpurkštas svastikos ženklas, greta durų paliktas sprogmuo |trans-title=Swastika sign sprayed on the wall of a building in Vilnius, explosive left near door |url=https://www.lrytas.lt/lietuvosdiena/kriminalai/2019/10/07/news/vilniuje-ant-pastato-sienos-ispurkstas-svastikos-zenklas-greta-duru-paliktas-sprogmuo-12093174/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191010085705/https://www.lrytas.lt/lietuvosdiena/kriminalai/2019/10/07/news/vilniuje-ant-pastato-sienos-ispurkstas-svastikos-zenklas-greta-duru-paliktas-sprogmuo-12093174/ |archive-date=October 10, 2019 |access-date=October 10, 2019 |work=Lrytas.lt |language=lt}}</ref> The next day, a 21-year-old Luke Hunter appeared in court in London charged with terror offenses, allegedly having supported the Feuerkrieg Division and encouraged the mass murder of Jews, non-white people and homosexuals. In December 2020 he was sentenced to four years in prison.<ref>{{cite news |date=October 9, 2019 |title=Right wing terror group accused in court |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-49992201 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191208103314/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-49992201 |archive-date=December 8, 2019 |access-date=October 9, 2019 |work=BBC News}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=December 30, 2020 |title=Newcastle neo-Nazi extremist jailed for terror offences |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-55427937 |work=BBC News}}</ref> Subsequently, a 21-year-old Lithuanian named Gediminas Beržinskas was arrested and charged with the bombing and Lithuanian police removed a large quantity of explosives and firearms from his apartment. It was also revealed that his gang had previously been charged with the brutal beating and sexual assault of a teenage girl.<ref>{{cite news |date=June 26, 2020 |title=Teroro aktą Vilniuje rengęs jaunuolis – neonacių gretose |url=https://klaipeda.diena.lt/naujienos/vilnius/nusikaltimai-ir-nelaimes/teroro-akta-vilniuje-renges-jaunuolis-neonaciu-gretose-974107 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200629085726/https://klaipeda.diena.lt/naujienos/vilnius/nusikaltimai-ir-nelaimes/teroro-akta-vilniuje-renges-jaunuolis-neonaciu-gretose-974107 |archive-date=June 29, 2020 |access-date=June 26, 2020 |work={{ill|Diena Media|lt}}<!-- Don't use {{ill}} or add small styling here as it pollutes COinS metadata -->}}</ref> The Estonian Internal Security Service also stated that their operation had stopped a similar bombing from taking place in Estonia by another member of Feuerkrieg Division.<ref name="baltic">{{cite news |date=June 26, 2020 |title=Grupuotė, kurios narys planavo išpuolį Lietuvoje: įtraukti siekiama net ir vaikus |trans-title=The group whose member planned the attack in Lithuania: even children are sought in involvement |url=https://www.delfi.lt/news/daily/lithuania/grupuote-kurios-narys-planavo-ispuoli-lietuvoje-itraukti-siekiama-net-ir-vaikus.d?id=84628759 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200627140746/https://www.delfi.lt/news/daily/lithuania/grupuote-kurios-narys-planavo-ispuoli-lietuvoje-itraukti-siekiama-net-ir-vaikus.d?id=84628759 |archive-date=June 27, 2020 |access-date=June 27, 2020 |work=Delfi |language=lt}}</ref>
On January 16, 2020, a 22-year-old Latvian named Arturs Aispurs was charged with preparing an act of terrorism for building a bomb he was planning to detonate in a crowd of "Muslims and foreigners" during the New Year's Eve celebration in Helsinki. During the search of his apartment the police found a large amount of propaganda in his possession linking him to the neo-Nazi network.<ref name="baltic"/> In response, Feuerkrieg Division announced that it was ceasing its public activities.<ref>{{cite news |date=January 16, 2019 |title=Somijā tiesā Latvijas iedzīvotāju par terorakta gatavošanu Helsinkos |trans-title=A Latvian citizen is being tried in Finland for preparing a terrorist act in Helsinki |url=https://www.lsm.lv/raksts/zinas/arzemes/somija-tiesa-latvijas-iedzivotaju-par-terorakta-gatavosanu-helsinkos.a345143/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200117221516/https://www.lsm.lv/raksts/zinas/arzemes/somija-tiesa-latvijas-iedzivotaju-par-terorakta-gatavosanu-helsinkos.a345143/ |archive-date=January 17, 2020 |access-date=January 17, 2020 |work=Public Broadcasting of Latvia |language=lv}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |author1=Femaleemployee1 |date=January 16, 2020 |title=Neo-Nazi group announces indefinite suspension of 'recruitment operations' |url=https://ent.siteintelgroup.com/Far-Right-/-Far-Left-Threat/neo-nazi-group-announces-indefinite-suspension-of-recruitment-operations.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200326165609/https://ent.siteintelgroup.com/Far-Right-/-Far-Left-Threat/neo-nazi-group-announces-indefinite-suspension-of-recruitment-operations.html |archive-date=March 26, 2020 |access-date=January 22, 2020 |work=SITE Enterprise |publisher=SITE Intelligence Group}}</ref> However, according to an investigation by ''Der Spiegel'' into firearm smuggling from the Balkans and Eastern Europe to Germany by Atomwaffen, the purported halt of activities was a ruse targeted at law enforcement, and that the group was still very much active.<ref name="n-tv"/><ref name=feuerkrieg />
According to ''Eesti Ekspress'', Estonian Internal Security Service detained a local teenager alleged to be one of the leaders and recruiters for the group, operating under the nickname "Commander" or "{{lang|de|italic=no|Kriegsherr}}" ("Warlord"). He had instructed others how to build bombs, spoke about planning attacks and encouraged members to take part in the paramilitary training. However, the authorities could not legally arrest him due to his minor status, and being not criminally liable. His alleged status in the group was also disputed by ''Eesti Ekspress''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kunzelman |first1=Michael |last2=Tanner |first2=Jari |date=April 11, 2020 |title=He led a neo-Nazi group linked to bomb plots. He was 13 |url=https://apnews.com/7067c03e1af0b157be7c15888cbe8c27 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200411222328/https://apnews.com/7067c03e1af0b157be7c15888cbe8c27 |archive-date=April 11, 2020 |access-date=April 12, 2020 |work=Associated Press |quote=the group has a 'decentralized structure', and the Estonian teen cannot be considered the organization's actual leader}}</ref> In a published picture, the boy can be seen wearing a skull mask and holding a pistol, taking part in the firearms training organized by Kaalep, who is also believed to have taken part in the group's chats under the pseudonym "Kert Valter".{{refn|name=estonia|<ref name="Roger Suso"/><ref name="Eesti Ekspress"/><ref name="EW"/><ref name="baltic"/><ref>{{cite web |date=March 6, 2024 |title=Helme gegen Ausländer |url=https://jungle.world/artikel/2020/17/helme-gegen-auslaender |work=Jungle World}}</ref>}}
In the United Kingdom, the Home Office announced on July 13, 2020, that it has designated the Feuerkrieg Division as a terrorist organization and the designation came into effect on July 17.<ref name="homeoffice"/><ref>{{cite news |date=July 17, 2020 |title=Feuerkrieg Division (FKD) proscribed as a terrorist group |url=https://www.counterterrorism.police.uk/fkd-proscribed/ |publisher=National Counter Terrorism Security Office}}</ref> In addition John Mann, Baron Mann proposed "discussions with Estonian ministerial counterparts, given that the FKD and the Sonnenkrieg Division appear to have strong Estonian links{{spaces}}... to see what we can learn about the reason for the growth in such organisations in the Baltics".<ref>{{cite news |date=July 16, 2020 |title=Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2020 – Motion to Approve |url=https://www.theyworkforyou.com/lords/?id=2020-07-16a.1762.1 |publisher=TheyWorkForYou}}</ref>
On September 2, 2020, Paul Dunleavy from Warwickshire appeared in Birmingham Crown Court, charged with preparing an act of terrorism. He had allegedly stated he was getting armed and in shape for a mass shooting to "provoke a race war", having acquired a handgun and ammunition for this purpose.<ref>{{cite news |date=September 3, 2020 |title=Teenage neo-Nazi said he was 'getting armed and in shape' for terror attack, court hears |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/teenager-neo-nazi-group-terror-attack-birmingham-crown-court-fkd-a9701591.html |work=The Independent}}</ref> He was found guilty on October 2, 2020,<ref>{{cite news |date=October 2, 2020 |title=Neo-Nazi teenager convicted of preparing acts of terrorism after trying to obtain gun to 'smash heads' |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/neo-nazi-terrorism-uk-teenagers-feuerkrieg-division-rugby-gun-b748419.html?amp |work=The Independent}}</ref> and was jailed for five years and six months.<ref>{{cite news |date=November 12, 2020 |title=Rugby teenager Paul Dunleavy jailed for terror offences |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-54843050 |work=BBC}}</ref> On February 1, 2021, a Cornish teenager said to have been the leader of the UK branch of the Feuerkrieg Division pleaded guilty to 12 terrorism offenses, making him one of Britain's youngest convicted terrorists. Police had previously raided his home in 2019 for firearms and had found bomb building instructions and O9A literature.<ref>{{cite news |date=February 1, 2021 |title=Teen Cornish neo-Nazi becomes one of Britain's youngest convicted terrorists |url=https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/teen-cornish-neo-nazi-becomes-4952298 |work=The Cornishman}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=February 1, 2021 |title=Boy becomes UK's youngest convicted terrorist after masterminding UK branch of far-right group FKD |url=https://www.straightnewsonline.com/boy-becomes-uks-youngest-convicted-terrorist-after-masterminding-uk-branch-of-far-right-group-fkd/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210223175753/https://www.straightnewsonline.com/boy-becomes-uks-youngest-convicted-terrorist-after-masterminding-uk-branch-of-far-right-group-fkd/ |archive-date=February 23, 2021 |access-date=February 1, 2021 |work=Straight News}}</ref> Luca Benincasa was sentenced to nine years and three months at Winchester Crown Court in January 2023. He had instructions on bomb making and was a recruiter and "prominent member" of the Feuerkrieg Division and ONA. He pleaded guilty to terrorism offenses and possession of child porn.<ref>{{cite news |date=February 18, 2023 |title=Neo-Nazi Luca Benincasa locked up for terror and child sex crimes |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-64404704 |work=BBC News |quote=He had instructions on bomb making and was a recruiter and "prominent member" of Neo-Nazi group Feuerkrieg Division.After he was arrested he scrawled satanic and far-right messages on his prison cell}}</ref>
Swedish-Estonian NRM member Oskar Laas was deported to Estonia from Sweden in 2021 as a threat to national security for his extremist views. Laas' father was a founder of the local department of the EKRE and took part in NRM demonstrations, as did the younger Laas with another Estonian friend. Laas had taken pictures with his friend in face masks holding the book Siege, and attended events of Blue Awakening and Atomwaffen Division in Estonia.<ref>{{cite book |title=Violent Extremism: a Nordic Outlook |date=2024 |publisher=Lexington Books |isbn=9781793632852 |editor1=Rostami, Amir |pages=48, 54 |editor2=Edling, Christofer}}</ref>
In May 2023, a large-scale operation took place across Austria where 10 people accused of being affiliated with Feuerkrieg were raided and arrested. The police also confiscated multiple firearms and Nazi paraphernalia. A Viennese man was accused of building bombs and calling for terrorist attacks.<ref>{{cite web |date=May 26, 2023 |title=Razzia in Wien: Teenager hortete Waffen, unterrichtete im Bombenbau |url=https://www.puls24.at/news/chronik/razzia-in-wien-teenager-hortete-waffen-unterrichtete-im-bombenbau/298424 |work=:de:Puls 24}}</ref>
In July 2024, a leader of the Eastern European Accelerationist group Maniac Murder Cult (MKU), Michail "Butcher" Chkhikvishvili, native of Georgia, was arrested and is facing 50 years in prison for a plot to poison Jewish people. Under him MKU co-operated with the Feuerkrieg Division.<ref>{{cite web |date=August 2, 2024 |title=Feds say Neo-Nazi 'murder cult' leader plotted to poison Jewish kids in New York City |url=https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/07/17/justice-department-poison-candy-new-york-city-santa-claus-costume/74428610007/ |work=USA Today}}</ref> On July 1, 2024, an Austrian 21-year-old member of the Feuerkrieg was sentenced to two years in prison for among other things, membership in a criminal organization. During a house search in May 2023, firearms and bulletproof vests were confiscated from his apartment. In Feuerkrieg chats he talked about attacking Jewish people and Muslims with poison gas and explosives. At the same time he was employed as a guard at Jewish institutions and was issued a firearm. However, he was intercepted by the police before he could carry out his plans.<ref name="DiePresse">{{cite web |date=August 16, 2024 |title="Feuerkrieg Division": Rechtsextremer in Wien erneut auf freiem Fuß |url=https://www.diepresse.com/18768060/feuerkrieg-division-rechtsextremer-in-wien-erneut-auf-freiem-fuss |work=Die Presse}}</ref>
On January 21, 2025 Harju Court in Estonia convicted three Feuerkrieg Division members for membership in and recruiting for a terrorist organization.<ref name="Harju">{{cite web |date=January 23, 2025 |title=Estonian court convicts three right-wing extremists |url=https://news.err.ee/1609583332/estonian-court-convicts-three-right-wing-extremists |work=Eesti Rahvusringhääling}}</ref>
=== Russia (AWD Russland) === On May 31, 2020, the group announced the formation of a new cell in Russia. It received military training from the Russian Imperial Movement, designated a terrorist organization by the US State Department. United States citizens affiliated with the group were also believed to have taken part.{{refn|<ref name="Routledge">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UMnOEAAAQBAJ&q=The+Routledge+Handbook+of+Far-Right+Extremism+in+Europe |title=The Routledge Handbook of Far-Right Extremism in Europe |date=December 14, 2023 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781032187976 |editor1=Katherine Kondor |quote=Iron March helped connect British and other European activists to Atomwaffen Division, a small group in America with a similar style to National Action. This too spawned an international set of copycat groups, including AWD Deutschland, AWD Russland, and AWD Finland. |editor2=Mark Littler}}</ref><ref name="Nacos">{{cite book |last=Nacos |first=Brigitte |author-link=Brigitte L. Nacos |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VuS1EAAAQBAJ&dq=%22according+to+intelligence+reports,+members+of+the+AWD+trained+with+the+Imperial+Russian+Movement+in+a+camp+outside+of+St.+Petersburg%22&pg=PT82 |title=Terrorism and Counterterrorism |date=April 27, 2023 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=9781138317635 |quote="according to intelligence reports, members of the AWD trained with the Imperial Russian Movement in a camp outside of St. Petersburg"}}</ref><ref name="24ur"/><ref>[https://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/mappingmilitants/profiles/russian-imperial-movement Mapping Militant Organizations. "Russian Imperial Movement."] Stanford University. October 12, 2022</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=June 14, 2020 |title=Club Partizan, el campo de entrenamiento militar en Rusia para los neonazis del mundo |trans-title=Club Partizan, the military training ground in Russia for the neo-Nazis of the world |url=https://www.infobae.com/america/mundo/2020/06/14/club-partizan-el-campo-de-entrenamiento-militar-ruso-para-los-neonazis-del-mundo/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200629104319/https://www.infobae.com/america/mundo/2020/06/14/club-partizan-el-campo-de-entrenamiento-militar-ruso-para-los-neonazis-del-mundo/ |archive-date=June 29, 2020 |access-date=June 14, 2020 |work=Infobae |language=es}}</ref><ref name="The Washington Post"/>}} Leader of the Atomwaffen Division Kaleb Cole was one of the Americans who were trained by RIM. The ties between Atomwaffen and RIM reached back to 2015 when Brandon Russell met with the leadership of RIM.{{refn|name=RIM|<ref name="GWU">{{cite web |date=March 10, 2025 |title=Atomwaffen Division (AWD) |url=https://extremism.gwu.edu/atomwaffen-division-awd |work=Program on Extremism at The George Washington University |quote=AWD members have been implicated in almost a dozen murders around the world...Russell traveled to a neo-Nazi event in Russia in 2015, where he made contact with organizations such as Greece's Golden Dawn, the Nordic Resistance Movement, and designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) the Russian Imperial Movement (RIM).}}</ref><ref name="overlap"/><ref name="Malcontent">{{cite news |date=August 6, 2022 |title=Washington's Defunct Atomwaffen Division had Deep Ties to the Terrorist Org, Russia Imperialist Movement |url=https://malcontentment.com/washingtons-defunct-atomwaffen-division-had-deep-ties-to-the-terrorist-org-russia-imperialist-movement/ |url-access=subscription |work=Malcontent News}}</ref><ref name="Futurest">{{cite news |date=December 13, 2022 |title=Rinaldo Nazzaro, Leader of the Neo-Nazi Terrorist Group—The Base: Probable Linkages to RIM |url=https://www.cofutures.net/post/rinaldo-nazzaro-leader-of-the-neo-nazi-terrorist-group-the-base-probable-linkages-to-rim |work=C/O Futures |page=13}}</ref><ref name="Unicorn">{{cite news |date=December 25, 2022 |title=We Applied to Join a Neo-Nazi Group Fighting in Ukraine |url=https://unicornriot.ninja/2022/we-applied-to-join-a-neo-nazi-group-fighting-in-ukraine/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221224195520/https://unicornriot.ninja/2022/we-applied-to-join-a-neo-nazi-group-fighting-in-ukraine/ |archive-date=December 24, 2022 |work=Unicorn Riot |quote=There has been an AWD cell in Russia since 2020 and it has close relations with the paramilitary, radical right group known as the Russian Imperial Movement. Many of the members of AWD have received military training from the latter.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=February 9, 2023 |title=Neo-Nazi organizations and radicals as a tool of influence in Scandinavia |url=https://lansinginstitute.org/2023/02/03/neo-nazi-organizations-and-radicals-as-a-tool-of-influence-in-scandinavia/ |publisher=Robert Lansing Institute |quote=Meanwhile, Canada and the U.S. recognized the RIM as a terrorist organization, which is suspected of being involved in mailing improvised explosive devices in late 2022. Besides, two RIM members were killed in Libya, which is validly suggests their affiliation with the GRU. In 2022, organization members took part in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The RIM is also reported to have a relationship with the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division's Russian affiliate. We see common features in the structure and functioning of Atomwaffen Division and the NRM, which suggests common sources of their organizational development.}}</ref>}} Groups of Atomwaffen members trained in RIM's facilities at least around 2018 and 2020 according to the Center on Terrorism, Extremism and Counterterrorism and there was some "overlap" between the groups.<ref name="overlap">{{cite web |date=June 11, 2024 |title=The Justification for Designating the Russian Imperial Movement as a Foreign Terrorist Organization |url=https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/academics/centers-initiatives/ctec/ctec-publications/justification-designating-russian-imperial |work=Center on Terrorism, Extremism and Counterterrorism, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey |quote=The "Last Crusade" proved to be a successful promotion of RIM's training camps to American accelerationists. In 2018, the neo-Nazi Atomwaffen Division's (AWD) leader Kaleb James Cole, accompanied by another member Aiden Bruce-Umbaugh, traveled to Russia to receive training at RIM's facilities. RIM has also provided training to other US nationals affiliated with AWD in St. Petersburg sometime around 2020. At present, the above information suggests an overlap between AWD and RIM in support for antisemitic action and militant accelerationism.}}</ref>
BBC News Russian investigation managed to identify some of the members of the group. Some had previously been active in the banned National Socialist Society whose members committed 27 hate crime murders and decapitated a police informant.<ref>{{Cite news |date=July 12, 2011 |title=Russian Neo-Nazi Murderers' Tough Sentences Welcomed |url=https://www.rferl.org/a/russian_neonazi_sentences_welcomed/24263471.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200706183817/https://www.rferl.org/a/russian_neonazi_sentences_welcomed/24263471.html |archive-date=July 6, 2020 |work=RadioFreeEurope}}</ref> The members published a Russian language translation of Brenton Tarrant's accelerationist manifesto. A copy of the book was found in the apartment of Yevgeny Manyurov who was allegedly inspired by it to shoot and kill multiple Federal Security Service agents in the Moscow FSB headquarters. The cell maintained contact with the rest of the Atomwaffen network and affiliated militants in Ukrainian Galicia. In July 2020 Security Service of Ukraine conducted a raid against allegedly affiliated neo-Nazis in Kyiv who operated printing presses and sold printed versions of the manifesto and other Nazi literature. Another raid was conducted against a group of neo-Nazis in Odesa planning to burn down a synagogue. Firearms were seized in the raids. According to the Security Service of Ukraine both of these operations were masterminded by men from Russia.<ref>{{cite news |date=July 2, 2020 |title=Интернационал Тарранта. Кто распространяет в России манифест массового убийцы? |trans-title=Who is distributing the mass murderer manifesto in Russia? |url=https://www.bbc.com/russian/features-53241805 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200703063113/https://www.bbc.com/russian/amp/features-53241805 |archive-date=July 3, 2020 |access-date=July 2, 2020 |work=BBC News |language=ru}}</ref>
As is the case elsewhere, AWD Russland was connected to the Russian O9A chapter. The group is tied to numerous crimes, including murder, burning down a church, sexual assaults, child prostitution, possession of occult extremist material and incitement to murder due to religious and racial hatred. Multiple members have been arrested and one was sent to involuntary psychiatric treatment.{{refn|name=Legion|<ref>{{cite web |date=October 16, 2020 |title=ФСБ против темных сил: стала известна участь задержанных в российском регионе сатанистов |url=https://radiokp.ru/fsb-protiv-temnykh-sil-stala-izvestna-uchast-zaderzhannykh-v-rossiyskom-regione-satanistov_nid18021_au5860au |publisher=Komsomolskaya Pravda Radio}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=October 16, 2020 |title=СРОЧНО: Суд в Карелии вынес приговор поджигателю Успенской церкви |url=https://stolicaonego.ru/news/srochno-sud-v-karelii-vynes-prigovor-podzhigatelju-uspenskoj-tserkvi/ |website=Stolica Onego}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=October 16, 2020 |title=Сатанист из Кондопоги планировал поджог церкви две недели |url=https://www.spb.kp.ru/daily/26867/3910427/ |website=Komsomolskaya Pravda}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=October 16, 2020 |title=Сатанинский поджог в Кондопоге: мальчика сгубили Интернет и вседозволеность |url=https://www.mk.ru/social/2018/08/16/sataninskiy-podzhog-v-kondopoge-malchika-sgubili-internet-i-vsedozvolenost.html |website=Moskovskij Komsomolets}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=November 9, 2020 |title=Russian branch of Atomwaffen division outlines expectations for new recruits |url=https://ent.siteintelgroup.com/Far-Right-/-Far-Left-Threat/russian-branch-of-atomwaffen-division-outlines-expectations-for-new-recruits.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404170603/https://ent.siteintelgroup.com/Far-Right-/-Far-Left-Threat/russian-branch-of-atomwaffen-division-outlines-expectations-for-new-recruits.html |archive-date=April 4, 2023 |access-date=November 9, 2020 |publisher=SITE Intelligence Group}}</ref>}} On August 20, 2021, four O9A members were arrested for satanic ritual murders in Karelia and St. Petersburg. Two of them are also accused of large-scale drug trafficking as a large amount of narcotics was found in their home.<ref>{{cite news |date=August 21, 2021 |title=Casal de adoradores do diabo é acusado de sacrificar duas pessoas em rituais na Rússia |trans-title=Devil-worshipping couple accused of sacrificing two people in rituals in Russia |url=https://www.itatiaia.com.br/noticia/casal-de-adoradores-de-sata-sao-acusados-de-homicidios-na-russia |work=Itatiaia |language=pt}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=August 21, 2021 |title=Меру пресечения сатанистам по делу об убийстве петербуржца изберут в Приозерске |url=https://www.fontanka.ru/2021/08/20/70089818/ |work=Fontaka}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=August 21, 2021 |title=СК задержал еще двоих по делу сатанистов, совершавших ритуальные убийства в Ленобласти. И показал следственный эксперимент |url=https://www.fontanka.ru/2021/08/20/70089473/ |work=Fontaka}}</ref> In October 2021 an AWD cell in Buryatia was arrested for having planned attacks against the government and migrants. The police seized firearms, explosives and Nazi paraphernalia from their hideout in Ulan-Ude.<ref>{{cite news |date=October 20, 2021 |title="Атомная дивизия": в Бурятии задержаны неонацисты, подражавшие банде из США |url=https://www.gazeta.ru/social/2021/10/29/14149513.shtml |work=Gazeta.ru}}</ref> Siege was banned as "extremist material" in response to Atomwaffen's activities in Russia.<ref>{{cite web |date=August 14, 2023 |title=Суд Петербурга признал экстремистским сборник Siege американского неонациста Мейсона |url=https://tass.ru/proisshestviya/18504187 |work=TASS}}</ref>
AWD Russland was part of a coalition of neo-Nazi groups taking part in Russian invasion of Ukraine consisting of Russian ONA, Rusich Group and Russian Imperial Movement, with some overlap.{{refn|name=coalition|<ref name="Nacos">{{cite book |last=Nacos |first=Brigitte |author-link=Brigitte L. Nacos |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VuS1EAAAQBAJ&dq=%22according+to+intelligence+reports,+members+of+the+AWD+trained+with+the+Imperial+Russian+Movement+in+a+camp+outside+of+St.+Petersburg%22&pg=PT82 |title=Terrorism and Counterterrorism |date=April 27, 2023 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=9781138317635 |quote="according to intelligence reports, members of the AWD trained with the Imperial Russian Movement in a camp outside of St. Petersburg"}}</ref><ref name="Malcontent"/><ref>{{cite web |date=September 10, 2024 |title=The Russian Federation sends a neo-Nazi sabotage group to spy on the Finnish border |url=https://odessa-journal.com/public/the-russian-federation-sends-a-neo-nazi-sabotage-group-to-spy-on-the-finnish-border |work=The Odessa Journal |quote=This group, made up of mercenaries with neo-Nazi and neo-pagan beliefs, is involved in serious war crimes that have sparked controversy even within Russia. Some members of the group are connected to satanic and neo-Nazi organizations such as the Order of Nine Angles.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite thesis |author=White, Daniel J., Jr. |title=Vanguard of a White Empire: Rusich, the Russian Imperial Movement, and Russia's War of Terror |date=August 16, 2024 |publisher=Center for Homeland Defense and Security |url=https://www.hsaj.org/articles/22672 |quote=RIM has developed supportive relationships with other transnational violent extremist groups grounded in mutual aid and training. The closest of these connections are with...the Russian neo-Nazi organization Rusich, and the transnational accelerationist neo-Nazi organization Atomwaffen Division...Rusich and the Russian Imperial Movement [have] U.S. nationals sympathetic to their cause [like] far-right organizer Matthew Heimbach and U.S. cells of the extremist Atomwaffen Division. |hdl=10945/72291}}</ref><ref name="Rusich"/><ref>{{cite web |date=September 10, 2024 |title=Russia sends neo-nazi sabotage group to 'strengthen' and spy on Finnish border |url=https://www.outono.net/elentir/2024/09/09/russia-sends-neo-nazi-sabotage-group-to-strengthen-and-spy-on-finnish-border/ |work=Contando Estrelas |quote=Some sources link the DSHRG "Rusich" with an international neo-nazi and Satanic network, the Order of the Nine Angles (ONA), accused of terrorist practices, child abuse and human sacrifice, and which in Russia also has one of its branches in the so-called Ave Satan Legion.}}</ref>}}
=== Italy (Nuovo Ordine Sociale) === Already previously active in the Italian speaking Switzerland, by 2021, Atomwaffen had a full-fledged chapter in Italy with 38 members, formed in Savona. The group was called '''Nuovo Ordine Sociale''' or ''New Social Order'' in English. On January 22, 2021, the police arrested a 22 year old leader named Andrea Cavalleri in Savona and searched the houses of 12 other members in Genoa, Turin, Cagliari, Forlì-Cesena, Palermo, Perugia, Bologna and Cuneo in an anti-terrorism operation. Various firearms were seized. Cavalleri was suspected, among other things, of preparing to commit a mass shooting and the police believe they foiled an attack. Ten rifles and three pistols were confiscated from his house.<ref>{{cite web |date=January 23, 2021 |title=Smantellata la rete dei suprematisti italiani: 'Faremo strage di ebrei' |url=https://www.lastampa.it/topnews/primo-piano/2021/01/23/news/smantellata-la-rete-dei-suprematisti-italiani-faremo-strage-di-ebrei-1.39807578 |access-date=January 23, 2021 |publisher=La Stampa |language=it |quote=Con lui voleva creare una cellula italiana della «Atomwaffen Division», movimento neonazista e suprematista nato nel Sud degli Stati Uniti che ha compiuto diversi attentati. Cavalleri, per creare la sua cellula, era entrato in contatto con militanti americani di organizzazioni suprematiste come l'Awd |trans-quote=He wanted to create an Italian cell of the 'Atomwaffen Division', a neo-Nazi and supremacist movement born in the South of the United States which carried out several attacks. Cavalleri, to create his cell, had come into contact with American militants of the supremacist organization AWD}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=January 23, 2021 |title=Terrorismo, ventiduenne arrestato a Savona per propaganda suprematista |url=https://www.lastampa.it/rubriche/savona/2021/01/22/news/terrorismo-ventiduenne-arrestato-a-savona-per-propaganda-suprematista-1.39805433 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210130005939/https://www.lastampa.it/rubriche/savona/2021/01/22/news/terrorismo-ventiduenne-arrestato-a-savona-per-propaganda-suprematista-1.39805433 |archive-date=January 30, 2021 |access-date=January 23, 2021 |publisher=La Stampa}}</ref> According to investigators he also had published and distributed propaganda inciting a revolution against "Zionist Occupation Government" and extermination of the Jewish people and "race traitors". Cavalleri also allegedly encouraged people to commit mass murder attacks like Anders Breivik and Brenton Tarrant and rape and kill enemies of the group. He was charged with forming a terrorist organization and incitement to criminal actions motivated by racial hatred. The NOS described itself as "A special unit of National Socialist revolutionaries" which "only welcomes warriors ready to die" and has "race war as its main purpose".{{refn|name=Italy|<ref>{{cite web |last=Longo |first=Emanuela |date=January 23, 2021 |title=Nuovo Ordine Sociale, cos'è/ Organizzazione neonazista ispirata a AtomWaffen Division |url=https://www.ilsussidiario.net/news/terrorismo-savona-22enne-suprematista-italiano-arrestato-faccio-strage-femministe/2120526/ |access-date=January 23, 2021 |publisher=Foundation for Subsidiarity}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Flore |first=Raffaele Graziano |date=January 23, 2021 |title=Nuovo Ordine Sociale, cos'è/ Organizzazione neonazista ispirata a AtomWaffen Division |url=https://www.ilsussidiario.net/news/nuovo-ordine-sociale-cose-organizzazione-neonazista-ispirata-a-atomwaffen-division/2120517/ |access-date=January 23, 2021 |publisher=Foundation for Subsidiarity}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Fabrizi |first=Chiara |date=January 23, 2021 |title=Terrorismo di destra e rete 'suprematista', blitz della Digos a Gubbio e Castiglione del Lago |url=http://www.umbria24.it/cronaca/terrorismo-di-destra-rete-suprematista-in-tutta-italia-arrestato-22enne-perquisizioni-a-perugia |access-date=January 23, 2021 |publisher=Umbria24}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Fabrizi |first=Chiara |date=January 23, 2021 |title='Primo obiettivo la guerra di razza': anche due umbri tra i 38 del Nuovo ordine sociale |url=http://www.umbria24.it/cronaca/primo-obiettivo-la-guerra-di-razza-anche-due-umbri-tra-i-38-del-nuovo-ordine-sociale |access-date=January 23, 2021 |publisher=Umbria24}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=January 23, 2021 |title=Alleged white supremacist arrested on terrorism charges |url=https://www.ansa.it/english/news/general_news/2021/01/22/alleged-white-supremacist-arrested-on-terrorism-charges_2b907bfc-984e-4ac8-85dd-32009a6a4f26.html |access-date=January 23, 2021 |publisher=Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata}}</ref>}}
On December 27, 2021, five Italian Atomwaffen leaders were arrested and searches were conducted in Pordenone, Brindisi, Milan, Turin, Ferrara, Modena, Verona and Bologna. Nazi propaganda and weapons were confiscated during the raids. The arrested leaders are suspected of distributing information on explosives.<ref>{{cite web |date=December 27, 2021 |title=Struttura paramilitare suprematista, indagato un pordenonese |url=https://www.ilfriuli.it/articolo/cronaca/struttura-paramilitare-suprematista-indagato-un-pordenonese/2/257942 |access-date=December 27, 2021 |publisher=Il Friuli}}</ref> On February 5, 2024, 24-year-old Luigi Antonio Pennelli was sentenced to 5 years in prison for "apologia and recruiting for Nazism". Pennelli had joined Atomwaffen two years prior.<ref name="Pennelli">{{cite web |date=February 5, 2024 |title=Apologia e proselitismo nazista, condanna a 5 anni per un 24enne |url=https://www.rainews.it/tgr/puglia/articoli/2024/02/apologia-e-proselitismo-nazista-condanna-a-5-anni-per-un-24enne-31a1793d-d70d-4fb5-bf09-86f1824d09f6.html |work=Rai News 24}}</ref>
On December 4, 2024, in Bologna 25 houses belonging to the members of a splinter group of the Italian Atomwaffen "Nuovo Ordine Sociale-Sole Nero" (New Social Order-Black Sun) or "Werwolf Division" were raided and members were arrested for plotting to murder Giorgia Meloni and possessing illegal firearms. According to Il Giornale the group was connected to jihadi terrorists. Allegedly a man from Bologna volunteered to fight in the Palestinian group Lions' Den and returned to Italy, and a Palestinian PLO member Zyad Abu Saleh built explosives for the group.<ref>{{cite web |date=December 5, 2024 |title=Neonazisti arrestati, cresce la galassia nera italiana: ritratto di un mondo sempre più radicato |url=https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/04/news/neonazisti_arrestati_werwolf_odio_suprematista-423823063/ |work=la Repubblica}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=December 5, 2024 |title=Alba Nuova e "Werwolf". La frangia neonazista che cercava alleanze per lanciare la jihad nera |url=https://www.ilgiornale.it/news/politica/alba-nuova-e-werwolf-frangia-neonazista-che-cercava-alleanze-2407397.html |work=Il Giornale}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=December 5, 2024 |title=Neonazisti nella rete dell'antiterrorismo, l'indagato triestino è Fabio Tuiach |url=https://www.triesteprima.it/cronaca/neonazisti-indagine-trieste.html |work=TriestePrima}}</ref>
=== Finland (AWD Finland) === '''Atomwaffen Division Finland "Siitoin Squadron"''' ('''AWDSS''') was formed after the ban of the Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM) in 2019, following members of the underground group embracing accelerationism and occultism.<ref name="Routledge"/><ref>{{cite web |title=The case against the Nordic Resistance Movement in Finland: an overview and some explanations |url=https://www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/english/news-and-events/right-now/2020/the-case-against-the-nordic-resistance-movement.html |access-date=November 2, 2020 |publisher=University of Oslo Center for Research on Extremism |quote=It is notable however, that some NRM activists have reasoned that only radical measures will be effective post-ban, thus coming to support e.g. the accelerationist model of activity. Certain members of the group have also appeared as contributors to publications that promote esoteric forms of neo-Nazism. A corresponding shift towards a more 'cultic' direction has also been observed in the United Kingdom after the banning of the National Action (NA).}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=June 12, 2022 |title=Satanistinen uusnatsiverkosto yllyttää terroritekoihin Suomessa – Supo: Ilmiö on merkillepantava |url=https://www.iltalehti.fi/kotimaa/a/bd4c67d9-762a-4b7e-a21b-44f5e7425109 |publisher=Iltalehti}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=July 11, 2022 |title=European Union Terrorism Situation and Trend Report |url=https://www.europol.europa.eu/cms/sites/default/files/documents/Tesat_Report_2022_0.pdf |website=Europol |quote=in mid-September 2021, AWD Finland was founded. The branch bore the name Atomwaffen Division Finland Siitoin Squadron (AWDSS). In its announcement, the group stated that its aim is to overthrow the Finnish government by any means necessary}}</ref> Named after Pekka Siitoin, the AWDSS was announced on September 15, 2021, the anniversary of the adoption of the swastika flag and the Nuremberg laws in Germany, with footage of members holding assault rifles. However, the group had already been active long before the announcement, and a few of their members had previously been exposed by antifascist activists.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Koch |first1=Ariel |date=February 14, 2022 |title=The ONA Network and the Transnationalization of Neo-Nazi-Satanism |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1057610X.2021.2024944 |journal=International Institute for Counter-Terrorism |pages=1–28 |doi=10.1080/1057610X.2021.2024944 |s2cid=245950861 |url-access=subscription |quote=The Finnish AWD cell called itself "Siitoin Squadron," after Pekka Siitoin – one of Finland's most prominent Cold War-era neo-Nazis who also embraced Satanism.}}</ref> The former NRM accelerationists had been active temporarily as {{langnf|fi|Kansallissosialistinuoret|National Socialist Youth}} prior to the formation of the AWDSS.<ref>{{cite web |date=September 15, 2021 |title=Ekstremistinen puhe verkossa ja uutismediassa |url=https://julkaisut.valtioneuvosto.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/162949/2021_VNTEAS_20.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210720172753/https://julkaisut.valtioneuvosto.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/162949/2021_VNTEAS_20.pdf |archive-date=July 20, 2021 |access-date=September 15, 2021 |publisher=Valtioneuvosto |language=fi}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=September 15, 2021 |title=Näin uusnatsit värväävät taas alaikäisiä Suomessa – Toimintakieltoja kierretään lasten omalla natsikerholla |url=https://seura.fi/asiat/tutkivat/nain-uusnatsit-varvaavat-taas-alaikaisia-suomessa/ |website=Seura |language=fi}}</ref> AWDSS also maintained particularly close relations with the Feuerkrieg Division in neighboring Estonia.<ref>{{cite web |date=July 3, 2022 |title=Mapping the Far Right |url=http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/stockholm/19155.pdf |website=Friedrich Ebert Foundation |quote=Following the initial ban of the Nordic Resistance Movement in Finland in 2019, members formed Atomwaffen Division Finland "Siitoin Squadron" (AWDSS). AWDSS was well networked with the Estonian branch of Feuerkrieg Division}}</ref> According to an investigation by Yleisradio, two thirds of the known members who were previously involved with NRM or Soldiers of Odin had a conviction for a violent crime, and multiple have been convicted of murder.<ref>{{cite web |date=December 3, 2018 |title=Ylen selvitys paljastaa: Jopa kahdella kolmesta natsijärjestö PVL:n ja Soldiers of Odinin näkyvimmistä suomalaisjäsenistä on rikostaustaa |url=https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-10534206 |access-date=September 15, 2021 |publisher=Finnish Broadcasting Company}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=September 15, 2021 |title=Expressen: Almedalenissa myös Suomessa toiminut, murhasta tuomittu uusnatsi |url=https://www.karjalainen.fi/ulkomaat/187975 |website=Karjalainen}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=September 15, 2021 |title=Finnish neo-Nazi jailed after death of man he attacked |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-finland-farright-crime-idUSKBN14J1IR |website=Reuters}}</ref> In their private chats Finnish Atomwaffen members talked about raping political enemies and publish videos of firearms training.<ref>{{cite web |date=September 13, 2021 |title=Näistä Suomen äärioikeistolaiset unelmoivat keskusteluryhmissään: seksuaalisesta väkivallasta, atleettinatseista – ja hakaristipizzasta |url=https://seura.fi/asiat/tutkivat/uusnatsien-unelmat-keskusteluryhmassaan-seksuaalinen-vakivalta-ja-hakaristipizzat/ |website=Seura}}</ref>
AWDSS was connected to and shared membership with Finnish O9A nexions.<ref name="Siitoin2">{{cite journal |last1=Koch |first1=Ariel |date=February 14, 2022 |title=The ONA Network and the Transnationalization of Neo-Nazi-Satanism |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1057610X.2021.2024944 |journal=International Institute for Counter-Terrorism |pages=11 |doi=10.1080/1057610X.2021.2024944 |s2cid=245950861 |url-access=subscription |quote=" For instance, the "AWD cell" in Finland claimed to be a nexion of ONA in Tampere. A now-suspended Twitter account that served the group contained photos of a masked and armed man dressed in military uniform, ONA books, and Siege, and a photo of half-naked women that holds two ONA booksin her hands.}}</ref> Finnish MP Vilhelm Junnila quoted a newspaper article about Atomwaffen that the nationally active group should be added to the list of proscribed organizations.<ref>{{cite web |date=September 30, 2021 |title=Valeuutinen Amerikan Malliin |url=https://vilhelmjunnila.fi/valeuutinen-amerikan-malliin/ |website=vilhelmjunnila.fi}}</ref> In September 2021, Save the Children foundation warned that extreme movements like the NRM splinters were grooming and recruiting children in Finland.<ref>{{cite web |date=September 15, 2021 |title=Pelastakaa Lapset: Ääriliikkeet houkuttelevat nuoria riveihinsä salaliittoteorioilla ja groomingilla |url=https://www.mtvuutiset.fi/artikkeli/pelastakaa-lapset-aariliikkeet-houkuttelevat-nuoria-riveihinsa-salaliittoteorioilla-ja-seksitarjouksilla/8229938#gs.ap3ylj |website=MTV Uutiset}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=September 15, 2021 |title=Pelastakaa Lasten raportti: Ääriliikkeet rekrytoivat nuoria erityisesti verkossa |url=https://www.pelastakaalapset.fi/uutiset/pelastakaa-lasten-raportti-aariliikkeet-rekrytoivat-nuoria-erityisesti-verkossa/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404152612/https://www.pelastakaalapset.fi/uutiset/pelastakaa-lasten-raportti-aariliikkeet-rekrytoivat-nuoria-erityisesti-verkossa/ |archive-date=April 4, 2023 |access-date=September 15, 2021 |website=Pelastakaa Lapset}}</ref> Five Finns were previously arrested for sexually abusing multiple children, and according to the police the activities involved "Nazism and satanism" and consumption of methamphetamine.<ref>{{cite web |date=September 15, 2021 |title=KRP:n paljastamassa lasten hyväksikäyttöringissä raiskauksia, metamfetamiinilla huumaamista ja tekojen videointia ja eteenpäin jakoa – erityispiirteinä saatananpalvontaa ja natsismia |url=https://www.mtvuutiset.fi/artikkeli/krp-paljasti-laajan-seksuaalirikosvyyhdin-ja-lapsipornoringin-kymmenia-tapauksia-materiaalia-jaettu-eteenpain/7340676#gs.aoqrwh |website=MTV Uutiset}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=July 17, 2023 |title=Elämä vihan jälkeen |url=https://www.kommunistinuoret.fi/post/El%C3%A4m%C3%A4-vihan-j%C3%A4lkeen |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230914201732/https://www.kommunistinuoret.fi/post/El%C3%A4m%C3%A4-vihan-j%C3%A4lkeen |archive-date=September 14, 2023 |access-date=July 17, 2023 |work=Tiedonantaja}}</ref> On September 25, 2021, Atomwaffen members assaulted antifascist counterdemonstrators to a Nazi demonstration in Helsinki and were arrested by the police at the scene.{{citation needed|date=December 2021}} Atomwaffen and Finnish lodge of the Black Order also formed a border patrol militia in co-operation, recruiting former military police. According to ''Seura'' magazine, some members had previously served in the Azov Battalion.<ref>{{cite news |date=October 22, 2021 |title=Finnish White Nationalists Recruited to Patrol Border to Prevent Immigration |url=https://ent.siteintelgroup.com/Far-Right-/-Far-Left-Threat/finnish-white-nationalists-recruited-to-patrol-border-to-prevent-immigration.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404170602/https://ent.siteintelgroup.com/Far-Right-/-Far-Left-Threat/finnish-white-nationalists-recruited-to-patrol-border-to-prevent-immigration.html |archive-date=April 4, 2023 |access-date=October 22, 2021 |publisher=SITE Intelligence Group}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=October 22, 2021 |title=Serbejä, syyrialaisia ja satanistinatseja – Tällaisiin toimijoihin Suomen äärioikeisto vaalii yhteyksiä |url=https://seura.fi/asiat/tutkivat/serbeja-syyrialaisia-ja-satanistinatseja-tallaisiin-toimijoihin-suomen-aarioikeisto-vaalii-yhteyksia/ |work=Seura}}</ref> In addition to Azov, the Russian Imperial Movement had also provided paramilitary training to the Finnish neo-Nazis. Finnish neo-Nazis have been recruited for the war in Ukraine by local far-right pro-Russian parties.<ref name="Conversation">{{cite web |date=July 16, 2025 |title=Russian Imperial Movement: how a far-right group outlawed by the UK is spreading terror across Europe |url=https://theconversation.com/russian-imperial-movement-how-a-far-right-group-outlawed-by-the-uk-is-spreading-terror-across-europe-260825 |work=The Conversation |quote=The RIM has also provided specific paramilitary training to far-right groups in Finland. Some members of these groups have fought on Russia's side in Ukraine, while others have attempted to establish a Finnish cell of the international neo-nazi Atomwaffen Division. Police raids in 2023 also unveiled plans to assassinate the then Finnish prime minister, Sanna Marin.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=May 13, 2024 |title=Some 20 Finns fought against Ukraine in Donbas, facing no consequences in Finland – media |url=https://euromaidanpress.com/2021/11/29/some-20-finns-fought-against-ukraine-in-donbas-facing-no-consequences-in-finland-media/ |work=Euromaidan Press |quote="Johan Bäckman says that he continues to help Finns who have gone to Eastern Ukraine to fight. He does not feel responsible for the people he recruits." Johan Bäckman is an important central figure for Finnish fighters, who had organized their travel from Finland to the Donbas and engaged them in illegal activities there. Janus Kostia Putkonen arrived in Donbas from Moscow via Rostov, southern Russia, in March 2015.}}</ref>
On December 4, 2021, the Finnish police arrested a five-man cell in Kankaanpää on suspicion of planning a terror attack and confiscated numerous firearms, including assault rifles, forty kilos of explosives and hundreds of liters of explosive precursors. According to the Finnish media, the men were part of AWD Finland.{{refn|name=awdfinland|<ref>{{cite web |date=February 4, 2024 |title=Høyreekstreme terrorister har røtter i Norge |url=https://www.aftenposten.no/kultur/kommentar/i/1OaRkJ/hoeyreekstreme-terrorister-har-roetter-i-norge |work=Aftenposten |quote=Rett før jul arresterte politiet i Finland en celle på fem mann tilknyttet Atomwaffen Division Finland, mistenkt for å planlegge en terroraksjon [Just before Christmas, police in Finland arrested a five-man cell associated with Atomwaffen Division Finland, suspected of planning a terrorist attack]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=December 7, 2021 |title=Äärioikeistolainen ideologia terrorismin näkökulmasta |url=https://supo.fi/aarioikeistolainen-ideologia |publisher=Finnish Security and Intelligence Service}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=December 11, 2021 |title=Onko poliisin tiedotustilaisuudessa välähtänyt verikoiralogo Kankaanpään epäillyn terroristiryhmän tunnus? |url=https://www.kankaanpaanseutu.fi/uutiset/art-2000008466608.html |work=Kankaanpään Seutu}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=July 11, 2022 |title=Europol: Kankaanpään "natsiporukka" oli kiinnostunut "satanistisesta uusnatsismista" |url=https://www.is.fi/kotimaa/art-2000008944609.html |website=Iltasanomat}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=January 2, 2023 |title=Europol paljasti hurjan väitteen Kankaanpään epäillyn terrorismiryhmän maailmanlopun satanismiaatteesta ja uudesta Suomen "Siitoinin uusnatsilaivueesta" |url=https://www.satakunnankansa.fi/satakunta/art-2000008944448.html |website=Satakunnan Kansa |quote=Suomalaisen ryhmän nimi kuuluu kokonaisuudessaan Atomwaffen Division Finland Siitoin Squadron (AWDSS)}}</ref>}} Further, they adhered to the ideology of accelerationism and ONA satanism.<ref>{{cite news |date=December 7, 2021 |title=Terroristiepäilyjen taustalla pahamaineinen Siege-kulttuuri – tästä siinä on kyse |url=https://www.iltalehti.fi/kotimaa/a/323fc7b7-1b05-4cfa-bcc1-22e4fa056c20 |work=Iltalehti}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=December 7, 2021 |title=Kankaanpään epäiltyjen maailmankatsomus on marginaalinen jopa äärioikeiston sisällä – tutkijat kertovat, mitä akselerationismista tiedetään |url=https://www.aamulehti.fi/kotimaa/art-2000008453532.html |work=Aamulehti}}</ref> The men are suspected of having planned to blow up a refugee center in Niinisalo for which they had acquired explosives, and the men are suspected of homophobic assaults and arson of another refugee center.<ref name=":14">{{cite web |date=July 13, 2023 |title=Terrorismitutkinta Äärioikeistolaisen ryhmän johtajaa epäiltiin myös vastaanottokeskuksen tuhopoltosta – Facebookiin ladattu kuva kiinnitti poliisin huomion |url=https://www.hs.fi/kotimaa/art-2000009717611.html |work=Helsingin Sanomat}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=June 30, 2023 |title=Poliisi: Äärioikeistolainen ryhmittymä suunnitteli räjähdeiskua vastaanottokeskukseen – Olivat hankkineet dynamiittia |url=https://www.hs.fi/kotimaa/art-2000009689084.html |work=Helsingin Sanomat}}</ref> In July 2023, the Finnish police arrested five men in Lahti who possessed assault rifles and adhered to accelerationism and Siege and planned to ignite a race war by attacking the infrastructure, electric grid and railroads.<ref>{{cite web |date=July 21, 2023 |title=Terrorismista epäilty Lahden uusnatsi vainosi tummaihoista perhettä – ampui konepistoolilla perheen postilaatikkoa ja julkaisi teosta videon |url=https://yle.fi/a/74-20041960 |work=Yle}}</ref> The men discussed forming a new Atomwaffen cell, and discussed assassinating Prime minister Sanna Marin. It was reported the men had at least planned training in Russia, and had met with Janus Putkonen. Later multiple sources confirmed the men had acquired training for the use of firearms and explosives.<ref name="Conversation"/><ref name="IL"/> Additionally the group committed burglaries against left-wing targets.<ref>{{cite web |date=September 13, 2023 |title=Viestittelyä Sanna Marinin ampumisesta ja junien suistamisesta – suurista aikeista huolimatta Lahden äärioikeistoryhmän iskut jäivät postilaatikoiden räjäyttelyyn |url=https://www.mtvuutiset.fi/artikkeli/suunnitelmissa-sanna-marinin-ampuminen-ja-junien-suistaminen-suurista-aikeista-huolimatta-lahden-aarioikeistoryhman-iskut-jaivat-postilaatikoiden-rajayttelyyn/8776190 |work=MTV News |quote=Poliisin mukaan ryhmittymä suunnitteli laajentavansa terroristijärjestöksi luokitellun Atomwaffenin Suomeen ja keskusteli yhden jäsenen ryhtymisestä sen vetäjäksi.}}</ref> On October 31, 2023, the men from Lahti were convicted of terrorism offenses. A 29-year old Viljam Nyman was sentenced to 3 years and 4 months. A man born in 2001 was sentenced to 7 months of probation and another man born in 1996 was sentenced to 1 year and 9 months. The fourth man was sentenced to 1 year and 2 months in jail.<ref name="IL">{{cite web |date=October 31, 2023 |title=Kolmelle miehelle tuomiot terrorismirikoksista |url=https://www.iltalehti.fi/kotimaa/a/1720f84f-a9de-4c0e-953d-9059a8c9fc0f |work=Iltalehti}}</ref> The Finnish Police also surveyed an O9A adherent and associate of Nyman who was suspected of planning a ritual murder and was subsequently arrested.<ref>{{cite web |date=November 8, 2023 |title=Salaisuus metsässä |url=https://yle.fi/a/74-20058829 |work=Yleisradio}}</ref> The man is also suspected of a string of letter bombs sent to Social Democrat, Green and Left party offices.<ref name="Yleisradio"/>
As of November 2023, Finnish police was investigating at least three terrorism cases connected to ONA and Atomwaffen.<ref>{{cite web |date=November 26, 2023 |title=Högerextrema rekryterar med nazism och satanism – så här vill de skapa kaos och kollaps |url=https://www.hbl.fi/artikel/3b6841ed-1f31-5afe-8950-fea47c19235b |work=Hufvudstadsbladet |quote=På kort tid har polisen utrett tre terroristiska brott med kopplingar till högerextremism och satanism.}}</ref> According to Iltalehti, the Finnish central nexion in Tampere<ref name="Siitoin2"/> is potentially connected to unsolved murder cases in the city.<ref>{{cite web |date=November 26, 2023 |title=Terrorismiin yhdistetty natsisatanismi rantautui Suomeen – Nyt sitä markkinoidaan myös nuorille |url=https://www.iltalehti.fi/politiikka/a/4850bf00-0666-4513-a6ae-378d5ca0e43d |work=Iltalehti}}</ref>
=== France (L'Œuvre) === According to {{lang|fr|Le Parisien}}, a French man referred to as Simon planned a double mass murder with an Alsatian man known as Nicholas which was to occur on Hitler's birthday, April 20. As a preparation, Simon had already scouted around his former high school and a nearby mosque, in Seine-Maritime. Simon wrote that "[he] want[ed] to do worse than Columbine", also professing an admiration for mass murderer Anders Breivik. Simon was arrested and taken into custody on September 28, by the police from the General Directorate for Internal Security (DGSI). Brought before an anti-terrorism judge, he was indicted for "criminal terrorist association" and placed in pre-trial detention. At his home, investigators discovered a collection of around 20 knives and at least three firearms including a long rifle equipped with a telescopic sight and a shotgun. Through Atomwaffen Division, Simon came to meet his "brothers in arms", Leila B and Nicholas. Like Simon, Leila B. planned to carry out a deadly attack in her high school. She also planned to plant a bomb in the church closest to her home during the Easter holidays. Detected by the DGSI a few days before the planned day of action, she was indicted on April 8, 2021, for "criminal terrorist association".<ref>{{cite web |date=October 3, 2021 |title='Je veux faire pire que Columbine' : le projet de tuerie de masse d'un adorateur d'Hitler déjoué par la DGSI |url=https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/je-veux-faire-pire-que-columbine-le-projet-de-tuerie-de-masse-dun-normand-adorateur-dhitler-dejoue-par-la-dgsi-02-10-2021-KPUTTZCGGVB5HKN4PYGAUWFT5M.php |website=Le Parisien}}</ref>
=== Argentina (AWD Argentina) === The existence of Atomwaffen Division affiliate in Argentina was first reported in early 2020. Tomás Gershanik of the Public Prosecutor's Office in Buenos Aires stated that Argentina was no exception, and the local chapter spread propaganda in universities and organizes firearm drills. The expose by the media was spurred by Grand Rabbi Gabriel Davidovich of Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina being violently beaten by the Argentinian neo-Nazis. According to Cyber Threats Research Centre (CYTREC) at Swansea University, AWD Argentina maintained contacts with Atomwaffen-affiliated neo-Nazis in neighboring Brazil.<ref>{{cite web |date=April 20, 2022 |title=Atomwaffen Division & its Affiliates on Telegram |url=https://www.resolvenet.org/system/files/2022-04/RSVE_RST_AWDandAffiliatesTelegram_Mattheis-Apr2022.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221225194743/https://www.resolvenet.org/system/files/2022-04/RSVE_RST_AWDandAffiliatesTelegram_Mattheis-Apr2022.pdf |archive-date=December 25, 2022 |access-date=April 20, 2022 |publisher=Cyber Threats Research Centre (CYTREC), Swansea University}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=April 20, 2022 |title=En busca del lobo solitario. Atomwaffen Division en Argentina |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339536598}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=April 20, 2022 |title=Extremist Content Online: Dylann Roof Glorified By White Supremacists On Telegram |url=https://www.counterextremism.com/press/extremist-content-online-dylann-roof-glorified-white-supremacists-telegram |publisher=Counter Extremism Project |quote="The week of June 13 to June 19, CEP researchers located a Telegram channel claiming to represent the Atomwaffen Division (AWD) in Brazil. The channel has posted AWD propaganda translated into Portuguese, and contains a recruitment email address on the Tutanota secure email site."}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=April 20, 2022 |title=Rabino sufre violento ataque en Argentina |url=https://www.ultimahora.com/rabino-sufre-violento-ataque-argentina-n2801247.html |publisher=Última Hora (Paraguay)}}</ref> Atomwaffen Argentina was member of Iron Order, a coalition of accelerationist groups.<ref>{{cite web |date=June 21, 2022 |title=Militant Accelerationism Coalitions |url=https://www.techagainstterrorism.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/CTEC__TAT-Accelerationism-Report-.pdf |publisher=Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey – Tech Against Terrorism}}</ref> In October 2023, law enforcement uncovered a new Atomwaffen cell in Mar del Plata, confiscating multiple assault rifles during the raids.<ref>{{cite web |date=October 28, 2023 |title=Atomwaffen División, la red internacional neonazi con integrantes marplatenses |url=https://canal8mardelplata.com.ar/atomwaffen-division-la-red-internacional-neonazi-con-integrantes-marplatenses/ |work=Channel 8 (Mar del Plata, Argentina)}}</ref> Police raided Atomwaffen cells in Tucumán, Santa Fe, and General Belgrano, Buenos Aires, resulting in multiple arrests.<ref name="Ar"/><ref name="MDP">{{cite web |title=Descubren nueva corriente neonazis en Mar del Plata e imputan a dos personas |url=https://www.lacapitalmdp.com/descubren-nueva-corriente-neonazis-en-mar-del-plata-e-imputan-a-dos-personas/ |accessdate=February 27, 2024 |work=La Capital Mar de Plata}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=February 23, 2025 |title=Far-Right Hate and Extremist Groups Argentina |url=https://globalextremism.org/argentina/ |work=Global Project Against Hate and Extremism |quote=In October 2023, a new Atomwaffen cell was discovered in Mar del Plata by the police and assault rifles were confiscated in raids. Atomwaffen cells in Tucumán, Santa Fe, and General Belgrano were also raided by the police, and some of the arrested were minors.}}</ref>
Two Atomwaffen members were arrested for threatening a prominent Argentinian LGBT activist and "forming a white supremacist association".<ref name="MDP"/><ref name="Ar">{{cite web |date=October 28, 2023 |title=Las amenazas de la red Atomwaffen División: "Los putos, los masones y los judíos van a morir" |url=https://canal8mardelplata.com.ar/la-amenazas-de-la-red-atomwaffen-division-los-putos-los-masones-y-los-judios-van-a-morir/ |work=Channel 8 (Mar del Plata, Argentina)}}</ref>
The attempted assassination of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was inspired by Atomwaffen according to Tiempo Argentina.<ref>{{cite web |date=December 4, 2023 |title=La campaña de una internacional neonazi que anticipó el atentado a CFK |url=https://www.tiempoar.com.ar/politica/la-campana-de-una-internacional-neonazi-que-anticipo-el-atentado-a-cfk/ |work=Tiempo Argentina}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Atom Waffen, el grupo neonazi que anticipó el atentado |url=https://www.radionacional.com.ar/atom-waffen-el-grupo-neonazi-que-anticipo-el-atentado/ |accessdate=February 27, 2024 |work=Radio Nacional}}</ref>
=== Brazil (AWD Brazil) === Since the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro, Atomwaffen and other organizations had rapidly worked to create neo-Nazi cells, counting up to 330 as of 2019, this growth being even with the number of hate crimes.<ref>{{cite web |date=January 10, 2021 |title=Ameaças de neonazistas a vereadoras negras e trans alarmam e expõem avanço do extremismo no Brasil |url=https://brasil.elpais.com/brasil/2021-01-10/ameacas-de-neonazistas-a-vereadoras-negras-e-trans-alarmam-e-expoem-avanco-do-extremismo-no-brasil.html |access-date=June 28, 2022 |work=El País-Brasil}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=February 26, 2019 |title=O caldeirão da Internet que agita fantasmas do nazismo no Brasil |url=https://brasil.elpais.com/brasil/2019/02/24/politica/1551033982_835587.html |accessdate=February 27, 2024 |work=El País-Brasil}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=June 9, 2020 |title=Sites neonazistas crescem no Brasil espelhados no discurso de Bolsonaro, aponta ONG |url=https://brasil.elpais.com/brasil/2020-06-10/sites-neonazistas-crescem-no-brasil-espelhados-no-discurso-de-bolsonaro-aponta-ong.html |accessdate=February 27, 2024 |work=El País-Brasil}}</ref> The offshoot of the Atomwaffen Division had been active since at least 2019, responsible for translating and disseminating propaganda in Portuguese and distribution of a manual for making explosive devices.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Catherine |date=June 16, 2020 |title=Brazilian Branch of Atomwaffen Distributes Manual for Simple Explosive Device |url=https://ent.siteintelgroup.com/Guide-Tracker/brazilian-branch-of-atomwaffen-distributes-manual-for-simple-explosive-device.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230425161218/https://ent.siteintelgroup.com/Guide-Tracker/brazilian-branch-of-atomwaffen-distributes-manual-for-simple-explosive-device.html |archive-date=April 25, 2023 |accessdate=February 27, 2024 |work=SITE Intelligence Group Enterprise}}</ref>
In May 2021, in the podcast "Infiltrado No Cast", presenter Ale Santos infiltrated an AWD Brasil chat, using false information, documenting the group's recruitment process.<ref>{{cite web |date=May 31, 2021 |title=Infiltrado Na Klan brasileiro:Ale Santos |url=https://mundonegro.inf.br/infiltrado-na-klan-brasileiro-ale-santos-revela-o-processo-seletivo-de-uma-celula-nazista-no-brasil/ |accessdate=February 27, 2024 |work=Mundo Negro}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=June 2021 |title=Ale Santos mostra como célula nazista está se formando no Brasil |url=https://portalrapmais.com/ale-santos-mostra-como-celula-nazista-esta-se-formando-no-brasil/ |accessdate=February 27, 2024 |work=Portal Rap Mais}}</ref> In November 2023, the Brazilian Intelligence Agency arrested seven men affiliated with Atomwaffen in an operation titled "Operation Accelerare". Around 100 civil police officers participated in the action. They are charged with participation in a criminal group and promoting Nazism. The men were allegedly leaders of the neo-Nazi cells in Rio Grande do Sul and Ceará. The police also raided 23 addresses in Rio Grande do Sul, Curitiba, São Paulo, Araçoiaba da Serra, Ribeirão Pires and Fortaleza where they seized electronic devices, weapons and Nazi paraphernalia.<ref>{{cite web |date=November 14, 2023 |title=Operação Accelerare III prende sete lideranças de grupos nazistas aceleracionistas |url=https://www.pc.rs.gov.br/operacao-accelerare-iii-prende-sete-liderancas-de-grupos-nazistas-aceleracionistas |work=Civil Police (Brazil)}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Jones |first1=Julia Vargas |date=November 7, 2023 |title=Brasil toma medidas contra una nueva amenaza: los neonazis |url=https://www.nytimes.com/es/2023/11/07/espanol/neonazis-brasil.html |accessdate=February 27, 2024 |work=The New York Times}}</ref>
During 2023, Brasil suffered a series of school shootings and attacks, some of them inspired by the Columbine Massacre and attacks carried out by neo-Nazis.<ref>{{cite news |date=April 23, 2023 |title=Como EEUU, Brasil sufre violencia en las escuelas |url=https://www.latimes.com/espanol/eeuu/articulo/2023-04-22/como-eeuu-brasil-sufre-violencia-en-las-escuelas |accessdate=April 27, 2024 |newspaper=LA Times}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=American school shooters inspire teen killers abroad |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/12/brazil-school-shootings-columbine-effect/ |accessdate=April 27, 2024 |work=The Washginton Post}}</ref><ref name="Tirador">{{cite web |date=November 25, 2022 |title=Arma do pai policial, confissão, planejamento: o que se sabe sobre o atirador de 16 anos que atacou escolas em Aracruz, no ES |url=https://oglobo.globo.com/brasil/noticia/2022/11/arma-do-pai-policial-confissao-planejamento-o-que-se-sabe-sobre-o-atirador-de-16-anos-que-matou-3-pessoas-em-escolas-do-espirito-santo.ghtml |accessdate=April 27, 2024 |work=O Globo}}</ref> As an example, Gabriel Rodrigues Castiglioni, perpetrator of two shootings that occurred in Aracruz, used to be active in Terrorgram Collective and during the shooting wore a swastika patch and Atomwaffen uniform. He confessed to being the perpetrator of the crime and stated that he planned it for two years.<ref>{{Cite web |date=April 12, 2023 |title=Dangerous Organizations and Bad Actors: Atomwaffen Division {{!}} Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey |url=https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/academics/centers-initiatives/ctec/ctec-publications/dangerous-organizations-and-bad-actors-4 |website=www.middlebury.edu}}</ref><ref name="Tirador"/><ref name="auto3">{{cite news |date=April 27, 2023 |title=PF diz que post antissemita no Telegram influenciou ataque a escola em Aracruz |url=https://www.cartacapital.com.br/cartaexpressa/pf-diz-que-publicacao-antissemita-no-telegram-influenciou-ataque-a-escola-em-aracruz/ |accessdate=April 27, 2024 |work=Carta Capital}}</ref> Furthermore, his father shared an image of the book {{lang|de|Mein Kampf}} on social networks. The publication was deleted after the crime.<ref name="Tirador"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Pai policial e símbolo nazista: quem é o atirador que invadiu escolas em Aracruz |url=https://www.agazeta.com.br/es/policia/pai-policial-e-simbolo-nazista-quem-e-o-atirador-que-invadiu-escolas-em-aracruz-1122 |accessdate=April 27, 2024 |work=A Gazeta}}</ref><ref name="auto3"/>
=== Spain (Blue Division) === In September 2020, the Civil Guard and the Mossos d'Esquadra arrested two men in La Pobla de Cérvoles and El Campello, for planning terror attacks in order to provoke a "race war". Explosives and firearms were confiscated in the raid. The men had been involved with a project to create all-white rural community and stockpile firearms for the collapse of the society. Two months later, in December 2020, two men in Pamplona and Ronda were arrested for plotting similar terror attacks. According to the investigators the four men were involved with Atomwaffen Division and had produced Atomwaffen propaganda in Spanish. Besides stockpiling firearms and explosives, the men manufactured aphrodisiac psychoactive drugs. In addition to these late 2020 arrests, the {{lang|es|El Confidencial}} newspaper reported of two previous foiled terror attacks by affiliated men: a young man with 150 kilos of explosives planned to blow up the University of the Balearic Islands and a Mexican national living in Spain planned to attack a far-left demonstration with Asphyxiant gas.<ref>{{cite web |date=January 4, 2021 |title=Sectores de extrema derecha violenta "aceleracionista" incitan a atacar a miembros de Vox |url=https://www.elconfidencialdigital.com/articulo/seguridad/canales-extrema-derecha-violenta-incitan-atacar-miembros-vox/20201230195214201590.html |work=El Confidencial}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Enrique Arias Gil |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OECfzgEACAAJ |title=Aceleracionismo y extrema derecha: ¿Hacia una nueva oleada terrorista? |author2=Jesús Alfonso Hernández Gámez |author3=Manuel Sánchez Carrero |author4=Alberto del Campo de Sisteré |author5=Miguel Jurado Gallardo |date=December 13, 2020 |publisher=Grupo Editorial Círculo Rojo |isbn=978-8413748016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=September 22, 2020 |title=Detenidos dos supremacistas en Lleida por enaltecer el terrorismo racista |url=https://www.lavanguardia.com/local/lleida/20200922/483626661758/detenidos-supremacistas-lleida-terrorismo-racista-pobla-de-cervoles.html |work=La Vanguardia}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=December 13, 2020 |title=Detenido un supremacista en Pamplona |url=https://www.eitb.eus/es/noticias/sociedad/detalle/7702216/racismo-ideologia-nazi-detenido-supremacista-pamplona-13-diciembre/ |work=Euskal Irrati Telebista}}</ref>
Later in December 2023, the Spanish Civil Guard arrested 11 leaders and an additional 11 individuals are under investigation for belonging to a Nazi paramilitary group linked to Atomwaffen. Ten firearms, more than 9,000 cartridges, 34 bottles of sulfuric acid, explosive precursors, and numerous prohibited weapons were seized. The association had headquarters in the province of Málaga.<ref>{{cite web |date=December 17, 2023 |title=La Guardia Civil investiga a un segoviano por su implicación en un grupo paramilitar de ideología nazi |url=https://www.eladelantado.com/segovia/la-guardia-civil-investiga-a-un-segoviano-por-su-implicacion-en-un-grupo-paramilitar-de-ideologia-nazi/ |work={{ill|El Adelantado de Segovia|es}}}}</ref>
== In popular culture == Atomwaffen has been the subject of five full-length documentaries, ''United Gangs of America: Atomwaffen'' by Vice TV, ''Documenting Hate: New American Nazis'' by PBS, ''"Im Verhör: Die Atomwaffen-Division"'' (parts one and two) by Spiegel TV and MSNBC's ''Breaking Hate: Atomwaffen Division''.<ref>{{cite news |date=September 30, 2022 |title=Looking for a Way Out |url=https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-originals/watch/-breaking-hate-looking-for-a-way-out-59379269852 |work=MSNBC}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=September 30, 2022 |title=DOCUMENTING HATE: NEW AMERICAN NAZIS |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/documenting-hate-new-american-nazis/ |work=PBS}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=January 1, 2023 |title=Rechts, radikal und extrem gefährlich – das ist die"Atomwaffen Division" |url=https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/im-verhoer-atomwaffen-division-1-ein-best-of-des-teufels-spiegel-tv-a-bca27772-01fb-4868-bd2b-43e5afa086da |work=Der Spiegel}}</ref>
== See also == {{div col}} * {{annotated link|Terrorgram}} * {{annotated link|List of neo-Nazi organizations}} * {{annotated link|List of organizations designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as hate groups}} * {{annotated link|List of white nationalist organizations}} {{div col end}}
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=== Works cited === * {{Cite journal |last=Macklin |first=Graham |year=2022 |title=The Extreme Right, Climate Change and Terrorism |journal=Terrorism and Political Violence |language=en |publisher=Taylor & Francis |volume=34 |issue=5 |pages=979–996 |doi=10.1080/09546553.2022.2069928 |hdl=10852/100988 |issn=0954-6553 |doi-access=free |hdl-access=free}}
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