Three youths were sentenced to 24-and-26 month prison terms in Tuebingen last Friday and two others were fined 1,000 Marks each for displaying Nazi symbols, circulating anti-Semitic propaganda, and assault. They were not identified because of their ages.
The five had shared a flat in the town of Rohndorf where they engaged in illegal neo-Nazi activities in celebration of Hitler’s birthday last April. When neighbors protested, they were violently attacked. The youths fled abroad before police could apprehend them. They were arrested at the border when they returned to Germany several months later.
In addition to the prison terms, three of the youths received nine month suspended sentences.
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