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Borussia Dortmund: The structures behind the club's fight against the far right

Felix Tamsut

April 09, 2019 |

Deutsche Welle (DW) |

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Response Location: Germany, Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia

A highly popular German sports club named Borussia Dortmund is taking advantage of its fanbase and following to promote anti-extremist messages, praise diversity, and celebrate inclusion. They do so in a variety of ways, including elevating and supporting independent fan initiatives like ballspiel.vereint!, requiring fan clubs and members to sign statues that reject far-right ideology, hosting educational field trips to former concentration camps for youth, and donating over a million dollars to the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem.

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