Word: aryanized
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...occasion: a parade in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, honoring the 100th birthday of Adolf Hitler last week. The host: Richard Girnt Butler, 71, leader of the white-supremacist group Aryan Nations. The invited guests: young skinhead toughs whom Butler wants to recruit to his bigoted cause. A 21-year-old Californian identified himself as "Whiteman." At a press conference he defined the skinhead philosophy as "retaliation for all the years of being beaten down by other races." He went on to predict that "a new generation has to come. The skins are the next wave...
...witnesses through factories and ware-houses. His idea of legal research is sneaking into the police station at night to look through classified files. He gets beat up one night on the streets of New York, and then the next day wanders unarmed into the headquarters of the Aryan Army to discover...
Worried that the man might know something I didn't, I hurried home to read what he had given me. When I finally got through the page-and-a-half proclamation, my anxiety turned to disbelief. This man's Nazis were not the anti-everybody Aryan supremacists from mid-century Germany. His Nazis turned out to be anti-abortion activists...
...offered a $10,000 reward for information. According to the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, there are about 2,000 members of racist skinhead gangs active in 21 states. Lately they have become more visible on the West Coast, possibly because of recruiting efforts by the Aryan Youth Movement, a neo-Nazi group whose leader, John Metzger, was among those involved in the brawl on the Geraldo Rivera show. Their menace may be spreading. Warns David Lowe, an associate director of the A.D.L.: "There have been skinhead activities in areas where racist activities have never made inroads...
...running gags in the film is that Parador is also a haven for Nazis waiting for their statutes of limitations to run out. The country is really run by the shadowy "14 Families"--German expatriates all. Julia's character is named Roberto Straussmann and is made to look Aryan via an eerie blond dye job. Parador's national anthem is to the tune of "O Tannenbaum" and is often accompanied by "Deutschland Uber Alles...