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Ragnarock is a record label

Record label

In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...

run by Erik Blücher

Erik Blücher

Erik Blücher or Tor Erik Nilsen is a Norwegian former neo-nazi activist.In 1975 Erik Blücher founded the national political party Norsk Front on the foundation of the tiny organization Nasjonal Ungdomsfylking , where he himself became the leader...

in Helsingborg

Helsingborg

Helsingborg is a city and the seat of Helsingborg Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 97,122 inhabitants in 2010. Helsingborg is the centre of an area in the Øresund region of about 320,000 inhabitants in north-west Scania, and is Sweden's closest point to Denmark, with the Danish city...

, Sweden

Sweden

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. They also sell records from other companies via mail order, for instance Combat 18

Combat 18

Combat 18 is a violent neo-Nazi organisation associated with Blood and Honour. It originated in the United Kingdom, but has since spread to other countries. Members of Combat 18 have been suspected in numerous deaths of immigrants, non-whites, and other C18 members...

's company ISD Records and white power magazines such as British Oi.

The company was founded in 1993

1993 in music

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by Lars Magnus Westrup, a former SS volunteer. After World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

he spent some time in Spain

Spain

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and was impressed by the use of media for propaganda purposes. When he returned to Sweden after Franco died he became head of propaganda for the Progress Party

Progress Party (Sweden)

The Progress Party was a minor Swedish populist political party that existed in various forms from 1968 to the 2000s, when local parties merged with the Sweden Democrats, or developed into distinct local parties. It was based mostly in Scania, although it at times had active local chapters other...

(Framstegspartiet). When he died May 16 1995 the company was taken over by Erik Blücher

Erik Blücher

. Because of their good co-operation with Combat 18

Combat 18

they are in direct competition with Nordland

Nordland

is a county in Norway in the North Norway region, bordering Troms in the north, Nord-Trøndelag in the south, Norrbottens län in Sweden to the east, Västerbottens län to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. The county was formerly known as Nordlandene amt. The county administration is...

.

In October 1998

1998 in music

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the Swedish police raided the office of Ragnarock to investigate hate speech charges and found, apart from master tapes and documentation also two fully loaded machine guns and a hand grenade.

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