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Live Nazi mine drifts ashore


Explosive experts have been commissioned to deal with a Nazi-era mine that has washed to shore in northern Sweden. Read the full story

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IKEA founder Nazi ties resurface


The founder of IKEA is facing mounting questions about his past, after a new book accused him of more involvement than previously thought in the Swedish Nazi party. Read the full story

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Nazi royal report branded a whitewash


An investigation into rumours about the role of the late father of Sweden’s Queen Silvia in Nazi Germany has been branded a whitewash by Holocaust survivors. Read the full story

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‘Nazi’ director and DF squabble over Norway blame


A Danish director, whose violent film may have inspired Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik, has engaged in a war of words with politicians from the far-right Danish People’s Party (DF) over who may have influenced the mass murderer most. Read the full story

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MP loses party support for Holocaust denial


A Norwegian Labour Party Sami MP has caused outrage within his own ranks by denying that the Holocaust ever happened. Read the full story

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Sweden Democrat blogger claims Africans have ‘rape gene’


A politician has quit a far right party in Sweden after his blog, in which he claimed black Africans are genetically predisposed towards rape, caused outrage across the country. Per T K Wahlberg of the Sweden Democrats party has been forced to stand down from his position after claiming that people of African descent have been raping women and children for centuries. Read the full story

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Icelandic minister visits Auschwitz as part of democracy summit


Ragna Arnadottir, Iceland’s Minister of Justice and Human Rights, visited the notorious Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland yesterday. She was in Poland for a meeting of foreign ministers from the Community of Democracies. Read the full story

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Danish Nazi leader cleared of racism charges


gavelJonni Hansen, the controversial Danish National Socialist Movement leader, has been acquitted of racism offences. Read the full story

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Swede convicted for trying to kill girlfriend with ‘Nazi poison’


porridgeThe legacy of Nazi wartime atrocities has resurfaced once again, but this time in the modern context of a man who wanted to get rid of his girlfriend. A 32 year-old Swede has been found guilty of trying to kill his girlfriend four times using Zyklon B pesticide, which was developed by the Nazis. Read the full story

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Dane ranked fourth most-wanted Nazi


germanySoren Kam, a Danish national, has moved up to number four on the ten most wanted list for World War II Nazi wartime criminals after a recent revision of the rankings. Kam’s upgrade is the result of reports that Aribert Heim, the doctor who gave lethal injections to victims at the Mathausen camp, may have died in Egypt. Read the full story

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