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A hate-filled bigot who used fancy dress to mock concentration camp victims can today be unmasked as a leader of a rising Scottish neo-Nazi movement.

Steven Wright can be revealed as a sympathiser of extreme group National Action, who praised the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox.

Wright openly backs other far right groups including the British Freedom Fighters, the White Brotherhood and Blood and Honour.

A Sunday Mail investigation can today reveal that the 45-year-old was at a so-called White Pride rally in Edinburgh eight days ago.

He can also be identified as one of the men involved in a confrontation with an ITN news crew last month. Wright’s fascist connections appear to spread as far as mainland Europe.

He was pictured carrying a Scotland flag in the Hungarian capital of Budapest during an right-wing demo in 2015.

In one chilling online image, shaven-headed Wright can be seen wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with a Nordic white power logo while clutching a World War II German submachine gun.

He has claimed the Schmeisser MP40 was a high-quality replica.

Anti-fascist group Hope Not Hate published the picture of Wright with the machine gun.

Our investigation into the far right can also name Gary Morrison as one of two men accused of giving a Nazi salute at the Edinburgh event.

Labourer Wright denied being a member of any political group when confronted by the Sunday Mail but later admitted belonging to several extremist organisations.

He denied being a Nazi, then admitted being a follower of Hitler. He said: “I’m a white nationalist. I believe in the teachings of Adolf Hitler and National Socialism.

“I’m in the White Brotherhood but that’s just a wee thing, like a motorcycle gang without the bikes. I’m also involved with Blood and Honour but that’s a musical thing. I’m a skinhead.”

Wright, from Alloa, was also spotted wearing a British Freedom Fighters T-shirt at an SDL demo in Kilmarnock in 2010.

More recently, he appeared at an SDL rally in his home town of Alloa last month. He regularly wears a scarf emblazoned with Hitler’s notorious SS unit’s Death’s Head insignia.

Wright also featured on an ITN News at Ten report, clashing with its security editor Rohit Kachroo while he investigated the activities of former members of banned group National Action.

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His front door is emblazoned with neo-Nazi and white power stickers. One, from the British Movement Youth Section, says “British Whites Demand More Rights”, while another sticker reads 88 Crew. Neo-Nazis use the number 88 as an abbreviation for the Nazi salute Heil Hitler.

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The letter H is the eighth letter of the alphabet, making 88 the code for HH.

When asked about the fascist group National Action being banned, he said: “It’s terrible. Those guys were just doing what they thought was right.”

Last year, National Action set up a “whites only” food bank in Glasgow to recruit homeless people. Members also lauded the murder of MP Jo Cox.

One, Garron Helm, was secretly filmed by an ITN undercover reporter last month.

Helm, who was jailed for tweeting anti-Semitic abuse in 2014, was recorded saying: “It’s not our fault she was killed, I mean she did have it coming.”

The group had previously declared their admiration of Thomas Mair who murdered Labour MP Jo last June.

Jo was shot and stabbed to death outside her Yorkshire constituency office.

National Action were banned by Home Secretary Amber Rudd under the Terrorism Act 2000 last December. She branded them a “racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic organisation”.

Police made 10 arrests at last week’s White Pride demo which was countered by demonstrators from United Against Facism.Two far-right extremists – Gary Morrison and Mark Brown – were arrested for giving the Nazi salute in public.

Married Morrison lives in the village of Balintore, on the Moray Firth, in Easter Ross.

The 47-year-old was arrested under the Criminal Law (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 1995 for racially aggravated harassment and held for five hours before being released.

Morrison denied giving a “sieg heil” sign when approached by our reporter – and ludicrously claimed he was waving at anti-fascist protesters. He said: “I wasn’t giving the Nazi salute. Now I’ve got a court case coming up. If you look at the footage, I had two hands up. We were corralled by the police.

“My hands were up and then one hand was up but there were no sieg heils. I wanted to cross the road and the next thing people were shouting and screaming ‘Nazi’ and I said to this lassie ‘Go and f*** yourself’.

“I went down there to meet a couple of mates. I hadn’t been in Edinburgh for years. I’m not a member of any faction but I believe in the white race, that’s it.

“You’ve got to respect people at the end of the day. They’ve got their rights and beliefs as well.”

Morrison said he believes in the white supremacist slogan known as the Fourteen Words – “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.”

He added: “I believe in the Fourteen Words. It’s not racist. We’re a depleted population. Multiculturalism is not working and we’re not mixing. That’s all it is. The rally in Edinburgh was a White Pride march. Nothing political there. It was White Pride being proud.” Morrison and Northern Irishman Brown, 30, are set to appear at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on April 24.

MPs Tommy Sheppard and Ian Murray took part in a counter-demo against the White Pride rally last Saturday.

Sheppard, SNP MP for Edinburgh East, said yesterday that far-right groups should be considered dangerous even though their numbers are small.

He added: “When there’s a tiny number of them, penned in behind a huge police cordon, they look quite

ridiculous.

“But people should be very wary about how these things can fester and develop.

“No one should regard these people as figures of fun or ridicule.

“They’re very serious and sinister people who would set our society against itself.”

Ian Murray, Labour MP for Edinburgh South, said: “There should be a zero tolerance approach to this kind of hatred.

“It’s really important for us to get the message out that we are a welcoming country and we will stand together against this kind of division.”

Gerry Gable, of anti-fascist group Searchlight, said: “The far right never do very well in Scotland, thank goodness.

“Anyone who gives a Nazi salute and believes in Adolf Hitler and the Fourteen Words is a Nazi.”