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Inspired by leftist radicals, neo-Nazis become more active...
...newsreel footage from Hitler's heyday? A movie or television drama about the Third Reich? No. The scenes were from recently filmed documentaries about neo-Nazi organizations in West Germany. Although their numbers are minuscule, and their threat to democracy in the Federal Republic nonexistent, the neo-Nazis have become more openly militant in recent months - inspired, perhaps, by the brazen terrorism of the leftist Red Army Faction...
...neo-Nazis have not been accused of any murders or kidnapings. Officials believe, however, that they were responsible for three bank robberies, netting a total of $270,000, as well as six raids on military depots in which weapons and ammunition were stolen. In one foray against a NATO training facility in Bergen-Hohne, sentries were surprised by intruders wielding submachine guns who also took weapons and ammunition...
Police later charged Salesman Uwe Rohwer, 40, a well-known neo-Nazi in Schleswig-Holstein, and four of his followers with the crime of forming a terrorist group. It marked the first time that this charge, drawn to deal with radicals of the left, had been invoked against the right...
Arrests of other neo-Nazis on such lesser charges as carrying weapons illegally or disturbing the peace have increased from 80 to 300 in a year. Criminal incidents attributed to the far right rose from 330 in 1976 to 613 last year. More disturbing, there has been an upsurge in anti-Semitic activities, including the desecration of Jewish synagogues and cemeteries with swastikas or Nazi slogans...