Danish Nazi leader cleared of racism charges
Jonni Hansen, the controversial Danish National Socialist Movement leader, has been acquitted of racism offences. In October 2009, Hansen was charged by the Prosecutor General over issues relating to...
View ArticleIcelandic minister visits Auschwitz as part of democracy summit
Ragna Arnadottir, Iceland’s Minister of Justice and Human Rights, visited the notorious Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland yesterday. She was in Poland for a meeting of foreign ministers from the...
View ArticleSweden Democrat blogger claims Africans have ‘rape gene’
A politician has quit a far right party in Sweden after his blog, in which he claimed black Africans are genetically predisposed towards rape, caused outrage across the country. Per T K Wahlberg of the...
View ArticleMP loses party support for Holocaust denial
A Norwegian Labour Party Sami MP has caused outrage within his own ranks by denying that the Holocaust ever happened. Fellow politicians are calling for the resignation of Anders Mathisen, who is...
View Article‘Nazi’ director and DF squabble over Norway blame
A Danish director, whose violent film may have inspired Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik, has engaged in a war of words with politicians from the far-right Danish People’s Party (DF) over who...
View ArticleNazi royal report branded a whitewash
An investigation into rumours about the role of the late father of Sweden’s Queen Silvia in Nazi Germany has been branded a whitewash by Holocaust survivors. The report, which was commissioned by the...
View ArticleIKEA founder Nazi ties resurface
The founder of IKEA is facing mounting questions about his past, after a new book accused him of more involvement than previously thought in the Swedish Nazi party. Ingvar Kamprad previously claimed...
View ArticleLive Nazi mine drifts ashore
Explosive experts have been commissioned to deal with a Nazi-era mine that has washed to shore in northern Sweden. The device, a spiked, German-made ball commonly associated with imagery from WWII,...
View ArticleDane ranked fourth most-wanted Nazi
Soren Kam, a Danish national, has moved up to number four on the ten most wanted list for World War II Nazi wartime criminals after a recent revision of the rankings. Kam’s upgrade is the result of...
View ArticleSwede convicted for trying to kill girlfriend with ‘Nazi poison’
The legacy of Nazi wartime atrocities has resurfaced once again, but this time in the modern context of a man who wanted to get rid of his girlfriend. A 32 year-old Swede has been found guilty of...
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