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British neo-nazi fanatics are holding paramilitary-style boot camps to train recruits for a bloody race war.

Shocking footage obtained by the Sunday Mirror shows Craig Fraser, the leader of a far-right group called Sigurd Legion, bragging about screening a jihadist film at a training session next month.

In a conversation with the notorious self-proclaimed “white nationalist” Kai Murras, powerfully-built Fraser says: “One of the videos we’re going to show at the next Sigurd camp, we’re going to get a projector up and project a jihadis training for ISIS over in Syria, showing them how they train”.

Murras, seen as leading figure among Europe’s far-right movement, replies: “The irony is that we actually need a jihad”.

With their prospects of achieving power through the ballot box in tatters following the collapse of Nick Griffin’s BNP, a new breed of UK fascists has emerged determined to transform ­themselves from a skinhead rabble into a highly trained and disciplined unit.

Scotland Yard’s anti-terror squad considers the extremist group a possible threat to national security.

Leading anti-fascist campaigners called for Home Secretary Theresa May to launch an urgent probe into the activities of Fraser and his neo-nazi cohorts.

Our footage, taken at a previous boot camp Wales, shows two men stripped to the waist pummelling each other as they practice unarmed combat and others training with blades.

In his book Centurion Method, Fraser tells his followers: “Violence is the key to manhood, a man who cannot do violence, either to himself, his comrades or his enemies is a dead man.

“Practice violence then, harm yourself, experience pain, practice the traditions of the day, learn to hunt, to kill, to maim and to dominate in battle.”

One of those also at the event in Wales was Matt Tait, who was present when a group of BNP thugs rowed with Asian men who yelled abuse at then-party leader Nick Griffin during the 2010 election campaign.

Another key trainer at the event last August was Denis Nitikin, the owner and organiser of White Rex, a Russian martial arts and cage fighting club.

Other photographs show a hooded Fraser from Lacock, Wilts, brandishing a machete and his wife Lucy with a rifle.

The next Sigurd event is due to take place from January 23 to 25 in “the heart of England” and promises sessions on “fighting fundamentals – break-falls and stance recovery, defensive striking, vision and psychology”.

The literature for the event fails to mention Fraser’s plan to screen IS jihadi material.

In a 2013 interview with fitness website HealthGauge, Fraser boasts his training methods are “moulded around the English Gangster Method, which is very simply the Silent Killing system used by the British armed forces in WW2”.

He also hatefully labels Judaism and Islam as “hilarious and subhuman”.

His writings envisage “a European empire and a European conquest of the entire earth” and dream of a “greater Germany/Holy Roman Empire” ruled by “knights” with “absolute discipline”.

In another chilling rant, he writes: “Once Europe’s devoted soldiers have installed themselves in this holy house with their tanks and their weapons, cleansed it and the other holy places of every un-European stain, and cast out the tyrannical horde, they occupy ­themselves day and night in both ­physical exercises and political training”.

While groups like Sigurd, National Action and right-wing debating club Western Spring have only a few hundred members, they have been increasingly active over recent months.

One National Action member, Garron Helm, was jailed earlier this year after branding Labour MP and Shadow Health Minister Luciana Berger a “filthy Jew bitch” 2,500 times in just three days on Twitter.

The 21-year-old, whose house contained a flag bearing the SS symbol, sent a tweet showing the controversial “Yellow Star” image on the Liverpool MP’s face, referring to her as a “communist Jewess”.

Reacting to our investigation Nick Lowles, chief of the anti-racism ­organisation Hope Not Hate, said: “Craig Fraser’s actions show the disturbing similarities that exist in both mindset and method between far-right and jihadist extremists.

“I hope the police take action against these neo-nazis with the same force they would against Islamist extremists.”

Lord Jeremy Beecham, who sits on the all-party parliamentary group against anti-Semitism, said: “There are lunatic, fringe groups who are anxious to promote Islamophobia and anti-Semitism.

"Any organisation that is in that territory needs to be checked out by the police and the authorities.

He added: “You’ve got to worry about what they are up to.”

Today Fraser claimed he had disbanded his group after a “crisis of conscience”.

He added: “I’m not a racist anymore. I’ve joined the Army and start basic training next week.

"I can’t have all this stuff come out now because it might ruin things for me.

"Yes, I’ve got a machete, but I’m not a violent person.”