Police used tear gas to break up an illegal demonstration by about 300 neo-Nazi youths in Fladungen-Leubae Thursday evening, New Year’s Eve. The town is on the border between Bavaria and Hesse, and police from both states participated.
Several arrests were made and a quantity of Nazi banners and anti-Semitic written material was confiscated.
The youths, members of a group called Wiking Jugend, carry on in the manner of the Hitler Jugend of the Third Reich. It is against the law in West Germany to publicly sing Nazi songs and demonstrate with Nazi symbols.
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