Secret German Cult in Chile Breaks 43-Year Spell
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VILLA BAVIERA, Chile  - A religious cult of German  immigrants has broken decades of isolation from a world shocked  by sex-abuse scandals in the group, the flight of its secretive  leader and reports it once helped Chile's military government  torture political prisoners.
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MENDEN-BARGE, Germany  - German authorities said on Thursday that they had unearthed the remains of 51 people, most of them children, in what may be a mass grave for murdered victims of Hitler's euthanasia program.
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KARLSRUHE, Germany (Deutsche Welle) - Germany's Federal Court has overturned the arrest of a sociologist accused of being a member of an extreme left group. The professor's imprisonment had sparked protest by academics on both side of the Atlantic. Professor Andrej Holm was arrested on Aug. 2 on suspicion of being a member of the militante gruppe (mg), a left wing militant group. Holm, a sociologist at Berlin's Humboldt University, was released on bail at the end of August after three weeks in prison. The Federal Prosecutor's Office immediately appealed this decision.  In its latest ruling, the German Federal Court in Karlsruhe rejected the appeal, and at the same time, ruled that the original arrest warrant was unfounded.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Former Chilean dictator AugustoPinochet was placed under house arrest Wednesday after thecountry's top court ruled Tuesday that murder and kidnappingcharges against him can move forward.
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SANTIAGO, Chile, Dec. 11 -- When the Mass concluded with a benedictory prayer Monday afternoon, several hundred mourners mingled quietly for a moment around the glass-topped coffin of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, crossing themselves and stealing one final look at the pale visage of a man who ruled this country with an iron hand from 1973 to 1990....
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Archaeologists in Germany say they may have found the lavatory from where 16th century Reformation scholar Martin Luther revolutionised the church.
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Makers of a movie about a failed plot to kill Adolf Hitler will not be allowed to use a German memorial site but this is unrelated to the fact that star Tom Cruise is a Scientologist, the Finance Ministry said on Monday.
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The BBC News website looks at the long terror campaign waged by Germany's  most notorious urban guerrilla group.
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By Michael Grabell, The Dallas Morning News  Feb. 9--Police and religious experts say that a pot containing a human skull, found near the bodies of a missing couple last week, appears to be a shrine of the Afro-Caribbean religion Palo Mayombe.
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Residents of the northern Bavarian town of Wunsiedel temporarily stopped a neo-Nazi march to commemorate the 17th anniversary of the death of Rudolf Hess, Hitler&#39;s deputy, who had been jailed for life in 1946.
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The former Chilean dictator's death provides a ghostly coda to a year in which the leftist political forces he worked so violently to defeat have swept back into power across Latin America
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A German-language mouthpiece for al  Qaeda has re-emerged on the Internet, vowing to defy the  authorities despite this month&#39;s arrest of suspects linked to  it in Austria and Canada.
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NETTERSHEIM, Germany  - Concealed in a thicket of brambles in hills southwest of Cologne, out of sight of the nearby motorway, an eerie relic of Germany's Nazi past has been neglected for over 60 years.
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CHILE Pinochet undergoes court-ordered tests SANTIAGO -- General Augusto Pinochet underwent lengthy court-ordered psychiatric and neurological tests yesterday to determine whether he is fit to stand trial for the disappearance of 25 leftist dissidents during his 1973-90 dictatorship. Court officials said blood samples were also taken from the 88-year-old former ruler to determine whether his medications influence his mental condition ...
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SANTIAGO: Augusto Pinochet will stand trial for atrocities committed during his 17-year regime in Chile, a Santiago court has ruled unanimously as the 89-year-old former dictator recovers in hospital from a stroke.
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The Mexican founder of an ultra-conservative Catholic movement who was accused of child abuse and sanctioned by the Vatican has died aged 87, his Legionaries of Christ group said on Thursday.
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One of the most notorious figures from Chile's former military regime, Osvaldo Romo, has died in prison.