Reports that the Ku Klux Klan is actively recruiting members in Germany has prompted State Prosecutor Alexander von Stahl to order an investigation.
A spokesman for the prosecutor, Hans-Jurgen Forster, said he was concentrating on reports of Klan activity in western and eastern Germany.
The Klan is said to have held meetings in April and September in Herford, Westphalia, and in Konigs Wusterhausen, near Berlin. In both places, American Klan activists organized the ceremonies and delivered speeches explaining the Klan’s racist views.
One of the Americans named was Denis Mahon, described as leader of the Klan in Missouri and Oklahoma.
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