Word: nazis
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ROME: A former Nazi officer who confessed to killing two people and taking part in the World War II massacre of 335 civilians near Rome was arrested again just hours after being acquitted by an Italian court on Thursday. Erich Priebke, a former SS captain, is now back in jail waiting for extradition to Germany. After the Italian court pronounced sentence on Priebke, ruling that the statute of limitations had expired and that he could not be found guilty of some charges because he was following orders at the time, a horde of outraged protestors burst into the court...
EXONERATED. DIETRICH BONHOEFFER, influential Lutheran theologian hanged in 1945 for high treason against Germany; by a Berlin court, which ruled that a 1946 law nullifying Nazi-era judgments formally overturned the death sentence an SS tribunal had imposed. Bonhoeffer, whose writings held up the suffering Christ as a model of submission to God's will, had denounced Hitler as the "anti-Christ." He died at 39, one month before Germany surrendered...
...prophet venerated by politicians and peasants; in Rupite, Bulgaria. By her account, Vanga was hurled more than a mile by a storm at age 12--which left her blind but may have opened up worlds hidden and future. She dreamed in 1941 of an "ancient horseman" who foretold the Nazi march into the Balkans...
...followed. "These were good guys, I thought," he says now. "I thought I was being patriotic. We would drink and fight, try to clean up America that way." At one party he attacked a white youth who was dating a black girl and who had objected to his neo-Nazi ranting. "I kicked him bloody until somebody pulled me off, then grabbed a beer and joked about it," Leyden recalls. Over the years, he says, hundreds of such fights followed...
...Leyden was doing more than just collecting paraphernalia; he was developing into a sophisticated neo-Nazi activist. Through a fellow skinhead he came to the attention of Tom Metzger, founder of the White Aryan Resistance, based in California. "Tom wanted more military recruiters," Leyden recalls. "They started sending me literature." And he worked hard for his cause, recruiting at least four fellow travelers, who then went off to other bases. The Marines finally reacted when he had Nazi storm-trooper lightning bolts tattooed on his neck. In a 1990 evaluation his superior officer wrote, "Loyalty is questionable, as he willingly...