A 35-year-old former policeman and his 29-year-old woman friend have been charged in Zweibruecken with devising and circulating an anti-Semitic game in which six pawns representing six million Jews are moved by throw of dice to squares marked with the names of Nazi death camps. The names of the accused were not disclosed.
The charges rest on a West German law forbidding racist propaganda and the display of Nazi symbols. The hand-drawn game surfaced several months ago when copies were mailed to institutions all over Germany, including Jewish communities. Twelve copies were confiscated by the police.
According to Wilhelm Sattler, Prosecutor for the federal state of Saarland, the accused man is from the Homburg area of Saarland. He quit his police job and has been making his living as a “national author.” Sattler would not release his name because he has never been registered as a neo-Nazi activist.
The prosecutor said the woman, unemployed, drew the game on the man’s instructions.
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