German Police Detain 74 Neo-Nazis Before Hess March

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WUNSIEDEL, Germany (Reuters)

German police detained 74 neo-Nazis on Saturday at a march marking the anniversary of the death of Adolf Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess.

Police said the right-wing extremists were held for carrying banned Nazi symbols or weapons ahead of the gathering in the southern town of Wunsiedel, where Hess is buried. ..

Around 3,000 neo-Nazis from Germany and abroad took part in the march, which has become an annual ritual and which the council in the north Bavarian town once again tried to ban.

Organizers won a court appeal, but the town's mayor and other locals managed to hold up the procession for some time with a sitdown protest on the street.

Anti-Nazi groups held counter-demonstrations, some holding banners proclaiming "Neo-Nazis are a joke."

Hess was found hanged in his prison cell in the Spandau district of Berlin in 1987. Many of Germany's small band of neo-Nazis believe he was murdered by his British military captors rather than committing suicide as is generally believed.

Hess was captured in 1941 after parachuting into Scotland in an apparent personal bid to broker peace with Britain.
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[LauraK]

1. Have you seen Carl Rove today.

I hate diplomatic immunity.

[TahitiNut]

2. Both Karl and the Little Fuhrer ...

... were last seen in Crawford blowing out candles on a birthday cake while sticking firecrackers into frogs.

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3. At least the author was wise enough to call them RIGHT WING

extremists instead of perpetuating the bullshit myth that nazis were leftists :)

[SOS]

4. The neocons

blame Hitler, WW2 and the death camps on the Weimar Republic.
Their reasoning is that the "weak liberal democracy" of the Weimar Republic "allowed" Hitler to come to power. See, it's not the fascists responsibility, but rather the liberal democrats.
These are the people now running our country.

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5. Well of course, these are the same people who belive that

the word "socialist" in National Socialist actually meant it was a socialist party, despite the fact that Hitler despised socialism, marxism, communism etc. He considered them all to be the inventions of a great Jewish conspiracy.

Of course, the neo-con/reich-wing morons would rather keep grasping at the myths.

[DivinBreuvage]

6. 74 absentee ballots on their way to Germany, courtesy of RNC n/t