Word: nazis
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...hurry along on urgent errands steal a second to stop and enjoy the sunshine after weeks of rain and snow. But the atmosphere in one corner of the square is more menacing. A crowd of about 80 teenagers is chanting "Kill the U.S.A.!" and raising their arms in the Nazi salute. Zakhar, aged 15, with shaved head and camouflage shirt, is reluctant to talk to a journalist, but makes an exception to explain that the rally is "all about exterminating the Jews, Americans and other scum...
...members of extremist and neo-Nazi groups, Hitler's birthday has become an occasion for venting their anger. And not just against the Americans. On April 20 last year, Moscow skinheads launched attacks that left a young Chechen killed and more than a dozen badly injured. Why do they do it? "Because [Hitler] gave us the holy idea of National Socialism," says Zakhar...
Chronological proximity, for example, allowed monetary reparations to be made to Holocaust victims who were used as slave labor in Nazi Germany. Similarly, the federal government offered reparations to survivors of Japanese-Americans interned during World War II and victims of race riots, but, in those situations, victims or their direct descendents were more easily identified...
Trials of Nazi suspects have slowed to a trickle in Germany: eyewitness testimony is harder to come by nearly 57 years after the war ended, and the accused are dying out. Last year there were two trials, both involving very elderly men. A court in Ravensburg in southern Germany sentenced former SS officer Julius Viel, then 83, to 12 years in prison for shooting dead seven Jews as they dug trenches at the Theresienstadt concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. Judge Hermann Winkler said that neither the passing of years nor Viel's exemplary life since the war lessened...
...Hamburg, where he was in the lumber-importing business. After the war he lived under an alias for nine years but then assumed his real name under an amnesty. Since then he has periodically been the subject of war-crimes investigations but escaped indictment. For years, evidence of Nazi war crimes was suppressed by the Italian government for fear of damaging postwar European unity...