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by Dave Keating | July 31, 2008 at 03:41 am
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German authorities have dug up a grave in Southern Germany because they heard the man was buried with a Nazi flag. Displaying swastikas is a crime in Germany punishible by up to three years in jail.
German authorities in the southern town of Passau have dug up a neo-Nazi's grave to remove a swastika flag that was placed on the coffin.
Police have opened a case against the neo-Nazi who witnesses say threw the flag onto the coffin during the burial of Friedhelm Busse on Saturday.
Police detained 11 neo-Nazis during clashes after the funeral on Saturday.
Passau police say a 45-year-old neo-Nazi is under investigation over the swastika flag incident. A police statement said he had hidden the flag inside his jacket, then thrown it onto the coffin while making a speech at the grave.
On Monday police removed soil from the grave and recovered the flag, Passau senior prosecutor Helmut Walch said, quoted by the German news agency DPA on Wednesday.
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at 04:03 on July 31st, 2008
Exhuming a grave sends a really, really bold statement.
at 04:25 on July 31st, 2008
Dave Keating, I like this story. It's good stuff.
The sad part about this, is that the Swastika in the direction the Nazi miss used it is the symbols of the Sun and the other way was the symbol of the Moon, in ancient German mythology two very important religious symbols equivalent to the Christian Cross or the Northern Cross! Yet because of the Abuse by the Nazi the symbol can no longer be used by those that still follow the ancient religion, Buddhist and Hindu as well as Greek do use those symbols as well still today as religious symbols not Nazi once, It is time to rehabilitate and reclaim those symbols to where they belong in the Religion not to the Fascist! After all what happened to freedom of religion and putting thinks right!
The Nazi miss used very ancient symbols that have nothing to do with fascism yet every thing with religion! Two wrong do not make it right!
Now as far as the miss use of the Symbol goes for Fascist purpose, please do put them in prison, yet leave the religion alone!
at 11:26 on July 31st, 2008
The Germans need to maybe get over themselves. If they want to start to exhume every German buried with a Nazi flag there would not be enough manpower in Germany to exhume them all...
at 11:27 on July 31st, 2008
Dave Keating, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 09:47 on January 1st, 2009
Pathetic, ''the smaller they are the bigger they have to act''