Anti-fascist Group Weaponizes Trademark Law to Shut Down Europe's Largest Nazi Merchandise Shop

Laut gegen Nazis secured European trademark rights to neo-Nazi codes and abbreviations through its Rights Against the Right campaign, then used those registrations to force Druck18 offline. The shop had relied on coded symbols to evade Germany's bans on explicit Nazi imagery. By claiming legal ownership of the codes themselves, the anti-fascist group transformed intellectual property law into a tool for commercial disruption, threatening infringement suits against vendors who use the marks.