Posted on 02/11/2010 8:50:53 AM PST by Brytani
Suspect in Auschwitz Sign Theft Arrested in Sweden
Reported: 17:59 PM - Feb/11/10
(IsraelNN.com) A 37-year-old Swedish man wanted for involvement in December's theft of the "Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work Sets You Free) sign from the front gate at the Auschwitz death camp was arrested in Stockholm on Thursday. Anders Hogstrom was arrested a week after a Polish court issued a European-wide warrant for his arrest for allegedly ordering the theft for a British Nazi sympathizer who wanted the sign.
Hogstrom will be investigated in Sweden before being extradited to Poland.
(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
.........Experts on Sweden's extreme-right say Hogstrom founded and led the Swedish neo-Nazi group National Socialist Front in the 1990s. During that time he helped organize yearly celebrations of Adolf Hitler's birthday and advocated repatriation of refugees to their home countries, according to Expo, a research foundation that has mapped right-wing extremists. However, Expo said he left National Socialist Front in 1999 after two of its members were convicted of a high-profile police murder and became an active opponent to the extreme-right…….(Excerpt)
(Jumping on soap-box) before I leave this earth I have a mission to change every single book, magazine article, news report or other commentary that continues to make the false and libelous claim that the Nazi’s were a far-right group. Socialism is not and has never been a political philosophy accepted or promoted by the right. As conservatives, we have done ourselves a great disservice by allowing those in academia, politics, the media and popular culture to continue with this false claim (leaving soapbox).
Good soapbox rant, Brytani. I’m right with you.
“Liberal Fascism” should be required reading .
You ever want to know what the left is up to? Just watch what they accuse their opponents of.
Great book and yes, it should be required.
I am go glad to learn that an arrest has been made in the theft and also that the sign, though cut into three pieces, has been found. My delight at this development is dampened by once again reading how the right is compared to the former National Socialist Party of Germany.
Complete and total projection - I used to believe the left simply suffered from a mental disorder that caused them to live in a fantasy world. No longer.
The left knows all to well how to manipulate those on their side; with their buddies in the media, popular culture and the internet, they are able twist history in nanoseconds.
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