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...BERND WAGNER, Exit-Germany
...extreme-right organizations is falling, their willingness to use violence is increasing. According to the report, there were almost 45,000 people in extreme-right organizations last year, down 10% from the year before. But the number of right-wing extremist attacks rose nearly 9% last year, to 772. Bernd Wagner, who runs a government-backed program called Exit-Germany that has helped nearly 200 youngsters leave right-wing gangs, warns that the threat posed by Kameradschaft Süd-Aktionsbüro Süddeutschland should not be downplayed. "All the ingredients for right-wing terrorism are there...
...Love Truck Volkswagen's assembly plant in Puebla, Mexico, is cranking out 3,000 special-edition old-style Beetles. But when the last one comes off the factory floor on July 30, the Bug's amazing 70-year era will officially end. Chief executive Bernd Pischetsrieder, however, has been too busy trying to engineer the €90 billion company's next era to get choked up over the passing of this...
...poverty that were previously unknown in Germany. A 1999 report on the East Berlin neighborhood of Hellersdorf estimated that 15% of the population lives below the poverty line - defined as a household income that is 50% or less of the national average. A large number of those are children. Bernd Siggelkow, a pastor in Hellersdorf, says Western politicians made big promises to the residents of East Berlin, but they were not fulfilled. "People here thought, 'Now the West is coming with all its glitter and gold,'" Siggelkow, 39, says. "But in the wake of unification came unemployment and a dramatic...
...dire straits. His heirs today own 47% of BMW's stock. The children of Quandt's third marriage, Stefan, 36, and Susanne, 40, sit on BMW's supervisory board. In 1999, angered by continuing losses at the automaker's Rover subsidiary in Britain, they ousted CEO Bernd Pischetsrieder in a boardroom coup. In Hamburg, the fate of Beiersdorf (Nivea skin cream) has been uncertain for months because of quarrels in the Herz family, which owns a 30% stake. The biggest shareholder, German insurer Allianz, is looking to sell its 44% stake, perhaps to Procter & Gamble. But the five Herz heirs...