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...Former Waffen SS Sergeant Franz Schonhuber's Republikaner Party wins 9.5% of the vote in local elections in Frankfurt...
Newly discovered documents reveal that the father of General John Shalikashvili served in a Nazi Waffen SS unit. Shalikashvili, nominated by President Clinton to become Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, did not comment on the information; a White House spokeswoman said it was "not relevant...
...West Germany, Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Christian Democrats received a blow as the new right-wing Republican Party, led by a former sergeant in Hitler's Waffen-SS, won 7% of the vote by capitalizing on fears of competition from foreign workers...
...spokesman said that the Jewish Defense League, a militant pro-Israel organization, is "the possible responsible group" for Odeh's assassination as well as two separate bombings of suspected Nazis last summer. One of those blasts proved fatal: in Paterson, N.J., Tscherin Soobzokov, 61, a veteran of the Nazi Waffen SS, was injured by a bomb that detonated when he opened his front door. He died a month later. The Los Angeles Times has reported that the bombs used in all three cases were of similar design. The JDL has denied involvement in the attacks...
...also the perverted emblem of his origins. He came from a wealthy commercial family in Bavaria. He studied Kant, earned a Ph.D. at the University of Munich and his medical degree at the University of Frankfurt. An early convert to Nazism, he volunteered for the Waffen SS. On the railroad ramp at Auschwitz, where Mengele presided over the selection process, deciding which of the terrified prisoners were fit for slave labor and which were fit only for the gas chambers, he wore white gloves and highly polished boots, and occasionally whistled fragments of Wagner. In doing so, he defiled music...