Graves are defiled at the Ohlsdorf Cemetery. Between April and August 1977 more than 450 graves, most of them Jewish, at six cemeteries in Hamburg are vandalized and gravestones are graffitied with swastikas and Nazi slogans. The attacks are attributed to the Hansa-Bande.

The Hansa-Bande, centred around Michael Kühnen, makes its first appearance. The organisation, which later called itself the Aktionsfront Nationaler Sozialisten (ANS), was at times one of the most active and militant neo-Nazi groups in West Germany. They are responsible for various attacks on DKP offices and cemetery.

Members of the Hansa-Bande attempt to disrupt a panel discussion on the topic "Should Nazi criminals be pardoned?" in the Markthalle. They graffitied the facade with the slogan "Klarsfeld to the gas chamber". Holocaust survivor Serge Klarsfeld and his wife Beate were known for their commitment to the investigation and prosecution of Nazi crimes.

In the spring of 1977, swastikas and antisemitic graffiti began to appear all over the city. On 1 September, the police arrested Michael Kühnen and Lutz Wegener, whom they had caught in the act. When the authorities searched the premises of the ‘leisure club’ on Eiffestrasse, they found Nazi propaganda and a cache of bladed weapons.

The neo-Nazi Michael Kühnen founds the Aktionsfront Nationaler Sozialisten (ANS). Christian Worch, who is still an active neo-Nazi today, also speaks at the inaugural meeting.

Holocaust deniers Thies Christophersen and Erwin Schönborn, along with the later far-right terrorists Karl Heinz Hoffmann and Manfred Roeder, organise an event on the subject of "Why paramilitary training?" The Hansa-Bande also takes part. Anti-fascists block the entrance and srt up barricades along the route to the venue. The police, however, channel the participants through the blockades.

Neo-Nazis marched through Hamburg’s main railway ­station wearing donkey masks and brandishing ­placards with the slogan ‘I’m such a donkey I still be- lieve that Jews were “gassed” in German concentration camps’. The rally was designed to garner nation-wide ­attention for the ANS. The extreme right has used donkey masks in its marches ever since.

ANS member Friedhelm Enk stabs his gay comrade Johannes Bügner to death. Together with other neo-Nazis, he had lured him out of the Nazi and gay club CanCan in St. Georg, driven him to a field near Stemwarde and killed him.

Anti-fascists chase neo-Nazis out of the Wienerwald pub, which had long been a regular meeting place for the ANS and others groups. They distribute information flyers to local residents and the idea of an anti-fascist working group in the neighbourhood is born.

20 neo-Nazis in black uniforms march through Blankeneser Bahnhofsstraße and distribute ANS leaflets at the railway station.