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Austrian Neo-Nazi Sentenced

Considered the key man of the Austrian and German neo-Nazi scene, Gottfried Kuessel waits in the Criminal Court in Vienna on the continuation of his trial, January 9, 2013. January 11, 2013 An Austrian court has convicted a well-known member of the far-right to nine years in prison for propagating Nazi ideology online, in violation [...]

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New Greek national party puts Montreal community on edge

The presence of a new Montreal chapter of a right-wing nationalist Greek party is polarizing members of Montreal’s Greek community. Golden Dawn won 18 seats in Greece’s recent election. The party’s anti-immigrant stance is considered racist, anti-immigration and anti-Semitic by many in the international community. The party seeks to maintain “the Greek race” and wants Christian [...]

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planned indictment Zschäpe for autumn

The OAG will still fall indict the alleged neo-Nazi terrorist Beate Zschäpe. Which a spokesman said on Thursday at the request of news agency dpa.Investigators requested the Federal Court, the 37-year old to hold in custody. It still exists a strong suspicion of membership in a terrorist organization and of very serious arson. On Saturday of this [...]

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The Early Days of Dachau

After Hitler came to power in early 1933, the Nazis began a systematic roundup of political opponents and all known anti-Nazis. There were so many arrests that conventional prisons quickly became overwhelmed. A series of ‘wild’ concentration camps were hastily constructed by Nazi storm troopers which were often little more than stockades surrounded by barbed [...]

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Book Burning

May 10, 1933 – An event unseen since the Middle Ages occurs as German students from universities formerly regarded as among the finest in the world, gather in Berlin and other German cities to burn books with “unGerman” ideas. Books by Freud, Einstein, Thomas Mann, Jack London, H.G. Wells and many others go up in [...]

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Germany ditches rower over ‘neo-Nazi lover’

Nadja Drygalla, 23, left after a long conversation with German Olympic officials about the allegations that her boyfriend was a leading member of the “Rostock National Socialists” and had fought a state election for a neo-Nazi party. “Ms Drygalla declared at the end of our conversation that she would leave the Olympic village in order [...]

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A New World War

Like most of the German leaders who had come before him, Adolf Hitler had a fascination with the British. For the better part of three centuries, as the Germans duly noted, people from the small island nation of Britain had managed to rule a fifth of the world via an all-powerful navy, a well-trained army, [...]

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Poland is Crushed

At dawn on Friday morning, September 1, 1939, two decades of pent-up military frustration among the German officer corps was unleashed by Adolf Hitler as a million-and-a-half German soldiers roared into Poland via several gigantic mechanized formations, smashing all opposition in sight. It was first time the world had ever witnessed Blitzkrieg (lightning warfare) involving carefully coordinated [...]

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Hitler Runs for President

Just three weeks after the suicide of his beloved niece, Adolf Hitler met the 84-year-old President of Germany, Paul von Hindenburg, for the first time. Hitler pulled himself out of the severe depression he fell into after her death. Twice before he had sunk into the abyss of despair, only to emerge stronger – in [...]

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Success and a Suicide

The years 1930 and 1931 had been good for Hitler politically. The Nazis were now the second largest political party in Germany. Hitler had become a best-selling author, with Mein Kampf selling over 50,000 copies, bringing him a nice income. The Nazi Party also had fancy new headquarters in Munich called the Brown House. Money was flowing [...]

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