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NEWS ABOUT: Neo-Nazi

Neo-Nazi stories: 20 news summaries

 Service Members Join 
 'Neo-Nazi Facebook' 

Activist group urges Congress to take a stand

Jul 10, 09 12:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - White supremacists have their own social networking site—and dozens of military personnel are members, reports Stars and Stripes. “I love and will do anything to keep our master race marching,” says the newsaxon.org profile of one user who says he’s served in Iraq and... More »

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military • US military • discrimination • racism • white supremacism • Neo-Nazi • hate groups

Shooter Tried
to 'Arrest'
Fed Members
in 1981

Von Brunn served
6 years in prison

Jun 10, 09 7:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - Details about the twisted past of the elderly man who killed a guard at the US Holocaust Museum continues to surface. In a bizarre incident in 1981, James von Brunn, then 62, stormed into the Federal Reserve's headquarters in DC armed with two guns, a knife, and a fake bomb,... More »

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crime • Holocaust Museum • Neo-Nazi • shooting • anti-Semitism • right-wing extremism • James Von Brunn

Germany Bans Group Behind Nazi Summer Camps

'Heimattreue Deutsche Jugend' indoctrinated children with racism, minister says

Mar 31, 09 2:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - The German government today banned a neo-Nazi youth group it says ran summer camps where children were instructed in racist and National Socialist ideology, Der Spiegel reports. “Heimattreue Deutsche Jugend,” the German Youth Faithful to the Homeland, allegedly included military exercises and “racial science” classes—which discussed... More »

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Germany • Wolfgang Schauble • Nazi • German • Neo-Nazi • right wingers • extreme right • summer camp

German Cops Raid Neo-Nazi Houses

Cops seize banned music as anti-Semitic violence rises

Mar 4, 09 2:10 PM CST
(Newser) - German police are searching houses nationwide for neo-Nazi propaganda that may be fueling anti-Semitic crimes, Reuters reports. The probe of 200 houses and businesses belonging to Germany's extreme right comes as extremism increases in East Germany, the country's poorer half. "The primary aim is to seize and confiscate prohibited... More »

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Germany • Holocaust • extremists • radicals • East Germany • Neo-Nazi • anti-Semitism

(Newser) - When Austria's most popular Nazi-sympathizer died in a car crash last year, he left behind a grieving lover—his boyfriend, Kevin Gray writes in Details. After politician Jörg Haider's death, his PR whiz gave a tearful interview that shocked Austria. "About Jörg and me, there was more—... More »

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Austria • Neo-Nazi • Joerg Haider • Bill Maher Grid

 Adolf Hitler, 3, 
 Removed From Home 

Social services take Adolf and sisters away from parents

Jan 14, 09 4:11 AM CST
(Newser) - Authorities have removed Adolf Hitler Campbell and his siblings from their parents' New Jersey home, the Express-Times reports. Adolf, 3, and his baby sisters— JoyceLynn Aryan Nation and  Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie—were taken by social services. It wasn't immediately clear why they were removed. There were no reports of neglect... More »

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New Jersey • Adolf Hitler • Nazi • Neo-Nazi • child custody • Adolf Hitler Campbell

 Economy Stimulates 
 Hate Groups 

Immigrants, internet, hard times are groups' 'furnace of hate,' says expert

Jan 11, 09 8:08 AM CST
(Newser) - The economic crush will spur more activity by the burgeoning number of hate groups in the US, experts warn. Law enforcement investigators are advocating for increased attention to the problem as the economy creates widespread discontent and more recruits for white supremacists, reports the Washington Post. "The internet, immigration... More »

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Ku Klux Klan • Neo-Nazi • hate groups • Nazis • economic disparity • Aryan Nation

German Mayor in Hiding After Neo-Nazi Threat

Stabbing warning delivered on right-wing web site

Dec 31, 08 4:57 AM CST
(Newser) - The mayor of a small German town is in hiding after receiving neo-Nazi death threats on a web site, reports Der Spiegel. The threats follow a near-fatal knife attack on a small-town police chief by a suspected neo-Nazi, and are raising concerns that extreme right-wingers are growing increasingly violent. "... More »

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Germany • death threats • Neo-Nazi • right wingers • Nazis

 ATF Foils Skinhead 
 Plot to Kill Obama 

Tenn. neo-Nazis would have shot, decapitated 102 blacks before going after candidate

Oct 27, 08 5:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - Federal agents have broken up a plot by two neo-Nazi skinheads to assassinate Barack Obama and shoot or decapitate 88 black people, the AP reports. ATF agents said the pair planned to rob a gun store and target a predominantly African-American high school in a murder spree that was to... More »

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Barack Obama • high school • ATF • Tennessee • shooting rampage • assassination attempt • Neo-Nazi • Election 2008 • African-Americans

Skinheads Dupe German Mail, Make Stamp
of Nazi Hero

They use image of Hitler deputy Hess

May 21, 08 5:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - Neo-Nazis in Germany pulled a fast one on the national postal service by tricking the agency into making stamps featuring one of Hitler’s senior deputies, der Spiegel reports. The skinheads used a Deutsche Post service that allows people to upload images for custom stamps online to create about 20... More »

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Germany • Adolf Hitler • mail • Nazi • Neo-Nazi • stamps • Deutsche Post

Hitler Gets Dolled Up
in Ukraine

Barbie-sized dolls of Nazi boss to go on sale, with accessories

Apr 24, 08 3:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Adolf Hitler dolls—with arms that move to make the infamous "sieg heil" salute—will soon be on sale in the Ukraine, the BBC reports. The Barbie-sized figure, which even comes with a change of outfits, is certain to spark an outcry in the country where the Nazis killed... More »

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Adolf Hitler • Nazi • Ukraine • Neo-Nazi

Turkish PM
Tries to Quell Anger Over Fire

Deadly blaze in Germany raises
ethnic tensions

Feb 7, 08 8:03 PM CST
(Newser) - Turkish PM Recep Erdogan today visited the site of a questionable Sunday fire in Germany that killed nine ethnic Turks and inflamed tensions between the country, Der Spiegel reports. Charges that the fire was arson, and that rescue workers were slow to respond, have captured headlines in Turkey; Erdogan mourned... More »

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Turkey • Germany • Recep Tayyip Erdogan • arson • Neo-Nazi • house fire • ethnic tensions

Competing With Neo-Nazis for the Youth Vote

German officials fight skinhead music with
a CD of their own

Nov 14, 07 6:33 PM CST
(Newser) - The government of one East German state is so concerned about the influence of neo-Nazi extremism on the young that it's handing out free CDs of leftist punk music as an antidote. Der Speigel reports that the tactic is borrowed from the far-right NPD party itself, which has been distributing... More »

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Nazi • German • punk music • Neo-Nazi • Landser

Protesters Thwart Neo-Nazi Rally in Prague

'I don't like these idiots with their shaved heads,' says one

Nov 11, 07 9:15 AM CST
(Newser) - Neo-Nazis marching on the anniversary of the infamous 1938 Nazi pogrom Kristallnacht ran into a wall of more than 1,000 counter-protesters bearing the Star of David in Prague's old Jewish quarter yesterday, the BBC reports. Czech police had earlier detained some of the skinheads, members of the Young Nationalist... More »

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Holocaust • Czech Republic • Nazi • Prague • Kristallnacht • Neo-Nazi • Young Nationalist Democrats • Star of David

German Town Wages Quirky War Against Neo-Nazis

Sausages, samba and saws disrupt rallies

Oct 31, 07 6:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - Inhabitants of the small German town of Gräfenberg have taken up ideological arms against far-right demonstrators from the National Democratic Party, Der Spiegel reports, running loud saws, blaring samba music, and projecting images of concentration-camp victims to disrupt their rallies. The conflict started when the town's mayor declared a... More »

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concentration camp • Nazi • National Democratic Party • Gräfenberg • Neo-Nazi

Art Vandals Post Video of Raid
on YouTube

Camera-wielding neo-Nazis trash Serrano exhibit in Sweden

Oct 9, 07 12:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - Andres Serrano, no stranger to controversy, has seen his current photography exhibition in a Swedish university town vandalized with crowbars and axes. But the latest incident of destruction had a new twist: The vandals who ran through Serrano's exhibition "The History of Sex" last week filmed their act of... More »

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YouTube • art • Nazi • Sweden • Andres Serrano • Neo-Nazi • culture wars

Jewish Hate Grows in
Jewish State

Neo-Nazi arrests point to frustrations of Israeli non-Jews

Sep 16, 07 8:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - Israel may seem an odd place for anti-Semitism, but as more immigrants claim Jewish heritage to gain citizenship through the loose "law of return," though they aren't technically Jewish, neo-Nazism is on the rise. Poverty, unemployment and social exclusion mark the lives of many non-Jews in Israel, reports... More »

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immigration • Israel • racism • Nazi • Nazism • Israeli Arabs • Neo-Nazi • anti-Semitism

Israel Cracks Neo-Nazi Gang

Police find videotapes of gang attacking observant Jews, others

Sep 9, 07 4:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Israelis are glued to the TV over news that police have busted a Neo-Nazi gang on Israeli soil, the Daily Telegraph reports. The Russian immigrant group allegedly filmed its attacks on gays and observant Jews and have vowed to "kill them all." A policeman said, "It is... More »

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Israel • police • Jews • Soviet Union • Adolf Hitler • Nazi • immigrant • white supremacism • Law of Return • Neo-Nazi

Cruise Can Film in Germany Despite 'Cult' Status

Berlin does an about-face on anti-Hitler movie

Jun 29, 07 12:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - Tom Cruise will be allowed to shoot his new movie, about a German military officer who tried to assassinate Hitler, on German soil. Earlier reports said the megastar would be banned because of his ties to Scientology, which Germany regards as a threat to democracy and keeps under "official... More »

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Hollywood • film • Scientology • Tom Cruise • Germany • Berlin • Claus von Stauffenberg • Valkyrie • Adolf Hitler • Nazi • World War II • Neo-Nazi • actor • movies

East German Women Are Heading West

And Neo-Nazi parties are courting the men left behind

Jun 1, 07 5:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - Young, educated women are fleeing eastern Germany—and Neo-Nazi parties are flourishing in the vacuum  they leave behind. One-and-a-half million people, two-thirds of them women, have left left the economically stagnant east since the mid-1990s, a new study shows. More »

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Germany • political party • unemployment • East Germany • Neo-Nazi

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