Assar Oredsson, head of the Scandinavian neo-Nazi party of Malmoe, was fined 50 crowns for saying to a Jew in public; “You damned foreigners should go to the gas chambers. Heil Hitler.”
A waitress in the restaurant where the Nazi made the statement also testified that Oredsson was intoxicated. He was fined despite a denial he had made the remark.
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