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Man Admits Bombing Berlin Memorial

March 15, 1993
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A 31-year-old right-wing extremist has confessed to the August 1992 bombing of a Holocaust memorial in Berlin.

The German worker, who appeared before the district court of Berlin, said he was motivated by neo-Nazi ideology and a belief in using violence to promote political change.

The defendant also confessed to two other bombings, one at a hostel for foreign asylum seekers and a second at a cemetery in the Berlin neighborhood of Wedding.

The bombed Holocaust memorial, which commemorates the spot where Jews were collected by the Nazis for deportation to concentration camps, was visited shortly after the attack by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who came to Germany on a state visit last September.

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