Wolfgang Droege, a white supremacist and Nazi sympathizer, was shot to death in Toronto. He was 55. The German-born former leader of the Heritage Front, a now-defunct Canadian white supremacist organization modeled after the Ku Klux Klan, once was involved in a coup attempt on the Caribbean island of Dominica, for which he was jailed in the United States.
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