> To let the light of facts onto some people's views on the so-called
lumpen,
> I assumed Angelus Novus's posting was to introduce us to this reality in
> Western Europe, specifically NE Germany:
>
> http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article1963238.ece
>
> German politicians reacted with shock and outrage yesterday after
right-wing
> extremists chanting "Sieg Heil" desecrated a memorial to the thousands of
> Jews whose synagogues were sacked and plundered during the Nazi's infamous
> anti-Semitic Kristallnacht pogrom in the 1930s.
>
> Police in Frankfurt an der Oder, on Germany's border with Poland, said a
> gang of 16 neo-Nazis aged between 16 and 24 went on the rampage at a stone
> monument marking the spot where the town's synagogue was burnt down in
1938,
> after a memorial service.
>
> ++++++++++++++++
>
> It's the confidence of those guys that amazes me. And they are youths.
The
> local socialists where I am are almost a pensioners club.
>
>
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