It’s been decades since I’ve seen an actual stompable nazi skinhead in NL. Good times though. Back then we had Jan Maat, basically first nazi in politics since the actual nazis lost the war. His slogans, in the 80s, were “full = full” and “own people/population first”. Most people agree now he wasn’t entirely wrong (seriously, we’re full, new immigrants have to sleep on chairs, million houses shortage). He was never any succesful because of the cordon sanitaire by other parties.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordon_sanitaire_(politics)#The_Netherlands (this is about what I said in previous post, excluding parties beforehand from coalitions).
In the 90s we had the rave scene, or as we called it the “gabber” scene, which means “buddy”, a proper subculture. Anti-establishment. Everyone on xtc or speed. Bomber jackets and track suits and Nike Air Max was like a uniform. Most were skinheads (some, including the girls, just the sides). Everyone was everyone’s buddy. Best period since the 70s. No nazis, just love, every equal. Except me, cause I provided the pills lol. Anyway, harmless skinny skinheads. That subculture died before the end of the millennium, people moved on, got jobs and kids.
Around 2005 we had the so-called Lonsdale youth, which were sort of nazi skinhead knockoffs. They took over rave parties, girls in blouses and mini skirts, guys in bombers, sweaters and shirts from the british brand Lonsdale, shoes from Doc Martens. Some schools banned the clothing because of its association with nazis and far-right. The brand never recovered here. At some point major DJs and producers already active in the 90s started releasing tracks, flyers and covers with various anti racism and anti nazi texts/slogans and it died out again. These guys would actually walk around in groups being all nazis so it would make sense to me if it was Lonsdale youth what you saw (stompable nazis but not so scary looking). That or polish neonazi tourists, they still got the hooligan type. Nowadays in NL far right doesn’t look like neonazis at all.
Good read on how to defeat nazis with techno:
