E/CN.4/1996/72/Add.2 page 7 33. As part of this campaign, information material was produced including hand-outs for schoolchildren and teachers, a brochure for young people entitled “Basta-Nein zur Gewalt” (enough - no to violence) accompanied by a teaching manual, a computer game entitled “Schwarze Schatten”, (black shadows), posters, stickers, badges, pennants and T-shirts. Advertisements were placed in publications for young people and television spots were broadcast against xenophobia with a view, among other things, to encouraging young people to behave fairly towards foreigners and show them some understanding. 34. The Federation and the Länder distributed some 370,000 posters around the country bearing the message “Violence is not the right choice”, to promote the right choice - understanding. This information campaign will be continued, with a new poster bearing the slogan “Rapprochement, not violence” which will also be widely distributed. Other priorities have consisted in cooperation with the RTL television series Gute Zeiten-Schlechte Zeiten (Good times - bad times) which has afforded a means of informing young people and encouraging them to become actively involved, and the “Pop 1995” tour organized by Deutsche Bahn Ag (German railways) in 45 towns throughout Germany, which reached a climax on 30 September 1995 with pop music festivals in 17 towns. 35. The campaign has been well received by the public at large. This can be seen in the great number of requests for information and propaganda material and the many offers of help. Additionally, many people have supported the campaign with activities of their own, for example, distributing material, publishing advertisements free of charge, wearing T-shirts bearing the logo Fairständnis (a pun on “fair” and the German word for “understanding”) at sporting events, setting up anti-violence groups and doing things to help their foreign fellow-countrymen. 36. The Ministers of the Interior in the Länder are also firmly committed to countering xenophobia, having adopted a declaration (the Saarbrücken Declaration of 9 October 1992) outlining efforts to prevent xenophobia in schools (see annex II). A. Dissolution of extreme rightist organizations and prohibition of xenophobic and racist activities and propaganda 37. Firm action has been taken and rigorous moves made, by both the federal authorities and the authorities in the Länder, against extreme rightist organizations and neo-Nazi cells. A total of 10 extreme rightist organizations have been banned: five that operated throughout Germany by the Federal Ministry of the Interior, 9 and five others, whose activities were restricted to certain Länder, by the ministries of the interior of those Länder. 10 38. The Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Landesamt für Verfassungsschutz) maintains a constant watch on the activities of the extreme right and systematically punishes breaches of the law. 39. Mention should be made here of the work being done in Saxony by the special police group Soko Rex. This is a commission set up in 1991 by the