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Security Forces Arrest Neo-Nazi Gang

Security forces have arrested a gang of Russian neo-Nazis who planned to burn every Moscow cinema which showed the film "Schindler's List," the story of a German industrialist who saved thousands of Jews in World War II. Russian television showed footage of the arrest of some of the gang on Monday. It did not say when the gang members, shown in paramilitary camouflage, were arrested. The group, which called itself Werewolf, also planned a terror campaign against "those belonging to other ideologies -- democrats, communists and Jews," according to a document seized by the Federal Counterintelligence Service. Werewolf was the codename for a secret Nazi operation to help top officers go underground at the end of the war. The television did not say how many people were detained, but said the Counterintelligence Service had evidence the group was involved in at least two killings, and attacks on a church and a sports stadium. "Schindler's List," an Oscar winner directed by Steven Spielberg, is due to open in Russia shortly.




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