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...scene, but police would not release the results, though on Friday they asked a court to detain Svensson an additional week. Svensson's lawyer, Gunnar Falk, said his client "rejects any involvement in the case." In addition to past episodes of football hooliganism, Svensson was said to have neo-Nazi sympathies. "The man mixes with right extremist circles and is also a friend of some of Sweden's most notorious neo-Nazis," reported the daily Aftonbladet. Daniel Poohl, who works for the Expo foundation, which monitors right-wing extremism in Sweden, told TIME that Svensson was not a leading figure...
...Munich. it's the 65th anniversary of Kristallnacht - the infamous pogrom against Jews launched by Nazi Propaganda Minister Josef Göbbels - and it's the day construction is set to begin on the city's first major synagogue since World War II. Hundreds of politicians and dignitaries, including German President Johannes Rau, Bavarian State Premier Edmund Stoiber and Paul Spiegel, head of Germany's Jewish community, will attend the groundbreaking ceremony. But if a ring of alleged neo-Nazis had its way, police say, Nov. 9 would also have been the day a bomb containing 1.7 kilos...
...homes of other suspected gang members allegedly turned up 12 more kilos of explosives, grenades and detonators. The plot in Munich could be a sign that the fractious radical right is organizing itself into a terrorist network. There is increasing concern among politicians and law-enforcement officials that neo-Nazis could form a movement as organized and deadly as the Red Army Faction (raf), which carried out kidnappings, killings and bombings from the 1970s to the '90s. One investigator, who wished to remain anonymous, says German law enforcement takes the threat seriously, but rejects the raf comparison...
...Though refugees do eventually make it out of the camps, Australia's policies are nonetheless shameful?and have plenty of historical precedent. The country's refusal to accept refugees from Nazi Germany was notorious in the 1930s. ("We have no racial problems in Australia and no desire to import any," a government spokesman snapped at the time.) Likewise the White Australia immigration policy, which restricted immigration from countries such as India and China until 1973, was a gross insult to the generations of Asian pioneers (principally Chinese) who had helped develop Australia's farming, mining and mercantile sectors...
...Britain and the U.S. in the deep waters of the Skagerrak, an arm of the North Sea, and in the Norwegian Sea. Over time, some of the weapons in the relatively shallow Baltic - blister agents (such as sulfur mustard), tear gas and other chemical irritants once the property of Nazi Germany - have lost their casings, leached into the sea and been caught in fishing nets. "In the Baltic," says Commander K.M. Jorgensen of the Danish navy in Bornholm, "the shells were dumped over the rails of Russian ships. In the Skagerrak, they were sunk inside ships that are now lying...