Greece Neo-Nazi Party Woos Greek Emigrants; Enrolls Greeks in US, Canada, Germany, Austl.

Greece's fiercely anti-immigrant Golden Dawn (neo-Nazi) party has a new group it is targeting for membership: emigrants, the Newser website reports today (April 2, 2013).

A rep for the party -- which uses a swastika-like logo -- says it has decided to create cells "wherever there are Greeks;" it intends to set up offices in Germany, Australia, Canada, and the United States to seek recruits among a Greek diaspora estimated to number seven million.

The neo-Nazis' biggest push so far has been in the U.S., home of some three million people of Greek heritage -- many of whom have retained close ties to their homeland.

Greek community leaders in the U.S. have denounced the neo-Nazi organization. "These people and their principles will never be accepted in our community. Their beliefs are alien to our beliefs and way of life," says the co-founder of the Hellenic American Leadership Council.