Police have arrested three rightwing extremists who menaced people demonstrating against the meeting in the Bavarian town of Passau of the German Peoples Union (DVU), the largest neo-Nazi organization in West Germany, or who resorted to violence there. They also confiscated a number of weapons. Some 1,500 persons took part in the meeting in Passau, which discussed the situation of the neo-Nazi movement in this country. The 15,000-member DVU is headed by Gerhard Frey, the publisher of the National Zeitung of Munich.
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