Ku Klux Klan

=== Europe ===

Recruitment activity has also been reported in the United Kingdom. In the 1960s, "klaverns" were established in the [[Midlands]], the following decade saw visits by leading Klansmen, and the 1990s saw recruitment drives in London, Scotland and the Midlands and huge internal turmoil and splintering: for example a leader, Allan Beshella, had to resign after a 1972 conviction for child sex abuse was revealed.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ramdin |first=Ron |title=The Making of the Black Working Class in Britain |year=2017 |page=216}}</ref><ref name="SPLC1998_UK">{{Cite magazine |date=March 15, 1998 |title=The Klan Overseas |url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/1998/klan-overseas |magazine=Intelligence Report |language=en |access-date=2022-06-18 |archive-date=June 18, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220618211006/https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/1998/klan-overseas |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2018, Klan-clad far-right activists marched in front of a [[Northern Ireland|Northern Irish]] [[mosque]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=2018-11-04 |title=KKK garb on Northern Irish streets – then a swift display of unity |language=en |url=http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/nov/04/northen-ireland-halloween-hate-crime |access-date=2022-06-18 |archive-date=June 18, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220618211031/https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/nov/04/northen-ireland-halloween-hate-crime |url-status=live }}</ref>

In Germany, a KKK-related group, ''[[w:de:Ritter des Feurigen Kreuzes|Ritter des Feurigen Kreuzes]]'' ("Knights of the Fiery Cross"), was established in 1925 by returning naturalized German-born US citizens in Berlin who managed to gather around 300 persons of middle-class occupations such as merchants and clerks. It soon saw the original founders being removed by internal conflicts, and mocking newspapers about the affair. After the Nazis took over Germany, the group disbanded and its members joined the Nazis.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.politische-bildung-brandenburg.de/node/8756|title=Orden der Ritter vom feurigen Kreuz|website=politische-bildung-brandenburg.de|language=de}}{{Dead link|date=February 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>{{sfn|Chalmers|1987|p=319}}<ref>{{Cite book |last=Nagel |first=Irmela |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0QOvMkBfVXsC&q=%2522Ritter+des+Feurigen+Kreuzes%2522+klan |title=Fememorde und Fememordprozesse in der Weimarer Republik |date=1991 |publisher=Böhlau |isbn=978-3412062903 |language=de}}</ref> On 1991, Dennis Mahon, then of Oklahoma's White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, reportedly helped to organize Klan groups.<ref name="SPLC1998_UK" /> Another German KKK-related group, the European White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, has organized and it gained notoriety in 2012 when the German media reported that two police officers who held membership in the organization would be allowed to keep their jobs.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-police-kept-jobs-despite-ku-klux-klan-involvement-a-847831.html |title=German Police Kept Jobs Despite KKK Involvement |work=[[Der Spiegel]] |date=August 2, 2012 |first=Florian |last=Gathmann |access-date=August 24, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120904131955/http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-police-kept-jobs-despite-ku-klux-klan-involvement-a-847831.html |archive-date=September 4, 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/369733/20120802/ku-klux-klan-nsu-germany-neo-nazi.htm |title=Ku Klux Klan: German Police Officers Allowed to Stay on Job Despite Links with European Branch of White Supremacists |work=[[International Business Times]] |date=July 2, 2014 |access-date=August 24, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120825011129/http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/369733/20120802/ku-klux-klan-nsu-germany-neo-nazi.htm |archive-date=August 25, 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref> In 2019, the German authorities conducted raids against a possibly dangerous group called National Socialist Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Deutschland.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://apnews.com/article/ku-klux-klan-europe-germany-nazism-3e21cd103e61428897282531b850e094|title=German police raid far-right group members, find weapons|publisher=AP News|date=April 30, 2021|access-date=December 8, 2021|archive-date=December 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211209000903/https://apnews.com/article/ku-klux-klan-europe-germany-nazism-3e21cd103e61428897282531b850e094|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dw.com/en/german-police-raid-suspected-kkk-members-homes/a-47113523|title=German police raid suspected KKK members' homes|work=Deutsche Welle|access-date=December 8, 2021|archive-date=December 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211209000904/https://www.dw.com/en/german-police-raid-suspected-kkk-members-homes/a-47113523|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://staatsanwaltschaft-stuttgart.justiz-bw.de/pb/,Lde/Startseite/Presse/Durchsuchung+Ku-Klux-Klan/?LISTPAGE=5675643|title=Bundesweite Durchsuchungen bei mutmaßlichen Mitgliedern der Gruppierung "National Socialist Knights of the Ku-Klux-Klan Deutschland"|work=Staatsanwanltschaft Stuttgart (in German)|date=January 16, 2019|access-date=December 8, 2021|archive-date=December 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211209001355/https://staatsanwaltschaft-stuttgart.justiz-bw.de/pb/,Lde/Startseite/Presse/Durchsuchung+Ku-Klux-Klan/?LISTPAGE=5675643|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2001, David Duke came to Moscow to network with local anti-Semitic Russian nationalists. Duke said that Russia was "the key to white survival" and blamed most of the events of the 20th century Russian history on the Jews.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Daniszewski |first=John |date=2001-01-06 |title=Ex-Klansman David Duke Sets Sights on Russian Anti-Semites |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-jan-06-mn-9088-story.html |access-date=2023-10-05 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US |archive-date=December 13, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221213193104/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-jan-06-mn-9088-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2001-02-02 |title=David Duke, To Russia With Hate - CBS News |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/david-duke-to-russia-with-hate/ |access-date=2023-10-05 |website=www.cbsnews.com |language=en-US |archive-date=January 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220122042004/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/david-duke-to-russia-with-hate/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In the 1920s, the Klan was rumoured to exist in [[Lithuania]] and [[Czechoslovakia]].{{sfn|Chalmers|1987|p=319}}