Actually, they took over some auction, stole the diary of Anne Frank, kicked it around like a football, and then burnt it in some pagan ceremony.
dailymail.co.uk
20:18pm 4th July 2006
German neo-Nazis tore up and burned a copy of The Diary of Anne Frank after hijacking a traditional gala.
Around 100 skinheads cheered and shouted Sieg Heil as the most poignant memoir of the Holocaust years went up in flames.
They also burned a U.S. flag and sang banned Nazi songs.
Germans were horrified by the latest outrage from the far Right, which comes as the country rides a new wave of peaceful patriotism as it hosts the World Cup.
Uwe Hornburg, a prosecutor investigating the incident, said: 'I am appalled. In 20 years as a prosecutor I have never had a case quite so disturbing.'
The book-burning, which has chilling parallels to the 1930s when Nazi supporters made pyres of books written by Jews, follows a string of high-profile attacks by racist gangs on blacks.
The neo-Nazis descended on a field in the village of Pretzien, Saxony, where local people were re-enacting a pagan rite celebrating midsummer.
A bonfire was lit and the book and flag destroyed.
Before they burned the book, the extremists used it as a football in a drunken kick-around.
Anne Frank's diary was written by a Jewish schoolgirl who hid with her parents in a flat in German-occupied Amsterdam for three years before they were betrayed to the Gestapo.
She died with most of her family in death camps. Only her father survived to find the diary and have it published.
It is now a mandatory part of the curriculum at all German schools.
Saxon interior minister Holger Hoevelmann said: 'This is an attack on civilised culture, on humanity and on decency.'
At the Anne Frank Centre in Berlin, an official spoke yesterday of a 'an outrageous incident' and demanded the highest possible penalties for the perpetrators.
Pretzien is in the impoverished former communist east of Germany, close to Magdeburg and some 100 miles from Berlin.
Its mayor Friedrich Harwig, who saw the book-burning, said: 'This happened because our defences against it are not strong enough.
'I have struggled for years against neo-Nazis and they keep on growing.'
Many areas of the east suffer extreme unemployment, disillusionment and despair, helping extremists attract the young and impressionable.
Before the World Cup began, black fans planning to visit Germany were warned that there were no-go areas, particularly in the east, where their lives could be in danger.
In the worst of the racist attacks, on Easter Sunday, a German of Ethiopian descent was beaten into a coma in Potsdam and nearly died.
The warning to visitors came from Uwe-Karsten Heye, a former government spokesman who is chairman of the human rights group Action for a World-Welcoming Germany.
He was strongly criticised by central and local government ministers, but the Anne Frank outrage has further fuelled fears about the rise of the far Right.
Haha! I hope this is a true story and not an Onion prank.
Like the pagan nitwits weren't an attack on decent civilization? I bet the pagans are the crybabies who ran to report this "horrible crime" against a copy of a book.
Funny what upsets people. "It takes all kinds of people to make a world" as the weirdos in Hymieweird like to say.
Burn the official curriculum! I call that off to a good start.
"Go, Nazis, Go!"
To the Jews/our leaders when an artist pisses on a painting of christ and puts it in a gallery that is art. When someone desecrates a copy of Ann Frank its a crime that deserves a longer sentence then child molestation.
'I have struggled for years against neo-Nazis and they keep on growing.'
Here's hoping the bastard toils through many more years of such maddeningly fruitless struggle.
"First: Do No Good." - The Hymiecratic Oath
"The man who does not exercise the first law of nature—that of self preservation — is not worthy of living and breathing the breath of life." - John Wesley Hardin
i'm confused
was this just another ppr/bck copy of the Anne Frank fairy tale?
or a copy of the actual, original manuscript?
if the former: then perhaps the likes of Uwe Hornburg & Friedrich Harwig should be chucked on bon-fires them-selves?
another task for the coming White Imperium
(jimbo!)
'history' is a lie commonly agreed upon....(Voltaire).....the "modern world" is a jewish disease!....
It is now a mandatory part of the curriculum at all German schools.
Saxon interior minister Holger Hoevelmann said: 'This is an attack on civilised culture, on humanity and on decency.'
He's talking about the Holoco$t lie, right?
When the pen strokers were first writing on this story they made it seem like it was the original copy.
nothing says lovin' like a jew in the oven
"What do you expect? All we got on this team are a bunch a Jews, spics, niggers, pansies -- and a booger-eatin' moron!"
Tanner Boyle - short stop for the Bad News Bears.
i'm confused
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was this just another ppr/bck copy of the Anne Frank fairy tale?
or a copy of the actual, original manuscript?
I don't know but if the Jews were smart they'd get "skinheads"/Mossad to burn the original so it couldn't be examined scientifically anymore. Then they'd be off the the hook and they could cry for another 50 years about the horrible crime they did themselves.
"Go, Nazis, Go!"
I don't know but if the Jews were smart they'd get "skinheads"/Mossad to burn the original so it couldn't be examined scientifically anymore. Then they'd be off the the hook and they could cry for another 50 years about the horrible crime they did themselves.
I don't know where the "broke into an auction" part came from, but all the stories on the net agree the diary was a COPY. The mayor of the town is being pressured to resign over the incident.
From Reuters, below. Notice the men were put in a room with their jewish oppressors and grilled and they apologized, sez the Jew:
Germany By Dave Graham
Fri Jul 7, 1:11 PM ET
BERLIN (Reuters) - The ceremonial burning of the diary of Holocaust victim Anne Frank by far-right extremists in eastern Germany was condemned by the German government on Friday amid calls to intensify efforts to stamp out neo-Nazi activity.
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"This act was beneath contempt and could scarcely have been more primitive," the German Interior Ministry said in a statement to Reuters.
The ministry was reacting to an incident in which three men in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt used a copy of the diary of the Jewish teenager to re-enact the Nazis' infamous incineration of 'un-German' literature in 1933.
State prosecutors are investigating the men, who also burned an American flag in front of a crowd estimated to have numbered more than a hundred, on suspicion of inciting racial hatred.
According to news reports, one of the men cast the diary into the flames and said: "I commit Anne Frank to the fire," borrowing words used by the Nazis in 1933.
"All of us in Saxony-Anhalt are put to shame by this," Wolfgang Boehmer, premier of Saxony-Anhalt, told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung daily on Friday.
Boehmer said the state would act decisively to prevent a repeat of the incident, which occurred at a summer solstice celebration in late June in the village of Pretzien. Details of the episode have emerged over the past week.
Known as "Anne Frank: the Diary of a Young Girl" in English, the work chronicles the Frankfurt-born Jewish girl's period in hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands, and became one of the world's most widely read books after it was published in 1947.
Juergen Falter, an expert on the far-right at the University of Mainz, said it was no accident the men targeted Anne Frank, who died aged 15 in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945, and Germany's chief post-war occupying power, the United States.
"The two (acts) go together: right-wing extremism is at the same time anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism," he said.
A number of attacks on foreigners have raised concerns that neo-Nazi violence could be increasing after far-right parties in two eastern states entered state parliaments in late 2004.
A spokesman for Saxony-Anhalt's interior ministry said the celebration was staged by the "Heimat Bund Ostelbien" -- a group which grew out of an earlier far-right organization in the area.
"The example of Pretzien is particularly alarming as never before had (a far right group) been incorporated into village life and treated like a perfectly normal association," he said.
"The problem is more there are too few democrats in the East with the courage to stand up to it and prevent it."
Thomas Heppener, director of the Anne Frank center in Berlin, said he was at a meeting in Pretzien when the men, all in their twenties, made no attempt to explain their actions.
"They told the village and the mayor they were sorry and that they hadn't wanted the village to be in the headlines. But that was it," he said. "There was no sign of remorse."
"Go, Nazis, Go!"