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...after winning 9.2% of the vote in a 2004 election. Researchers said there was a steep rise in the number of clashes between far-right groups and left-wing activists after the vote. "The NPD has successfully recruited young people from the violent far-right subculture and the neo-Nazi Kameradschaften [Brotherhood] groups," Uwe Backes, deputy director of the institute and author of the report, tells TIME. "The left wing has become the far right's No. 1 enemy in Saxony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Germany, a Disturbing Rise in Right-Wing Violence | 12/23/2009 | See Source »

...officially rejects violence and explicit Nazi references. Nonetheless, the federal government attempted to ban the party in 2003, only to be overruled by the German high court - an embarrassment for then Premier Gerhard Schr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Germany, a Disturbing Rise in Right-Wing Violence | 12/23/2009 | See Source »

...avoid detection. "The problem is that Germany has a stable far-right scene, made up of autonomous nationalists, former skinheads and the NPD - and they're all growing in confidence," Hajo Funke, a professor of politics at Berlin's Free University, tells TIME. "These different neo-Nazi groups interact with one another using the Internet." (See Kristallnacht in words and pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Germany, a Disturbing Rise in Right-Wing Violence | 12/23/2009 | See Source »

...Ziercke says that in light of the new statistics, police surveillance of extremists should be stepped up dramatically in the New Year. Sadly, for a country that has long tried to live down its Nazi past, the wave of right-wing violence shows little sign of relenting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Germany, a Disturbing Rise in Right-Wing Violence | 12/23/2009 | See Source »

...vagueness about the German role in events and the numbers of people murdered. The strongest language in response to the Pius announcement came from Benedict's native Germany, where Stephan Kramer, who heads the country's Central Jewish Council called it a "hijacking of historical facts concerning the Nazi era." He said that Benedict "rewrites history without having allowed a serious scientific discussion. That's what makes me furious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Benedict's Pope: Should Pius XII Become a Saint? | 12/22/2009 | See Source »

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