German shops destroy Santas giving "Hitler salute"
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A German chain of shops has removed miniature wooden Santa Claus figures from its shelves and destroyed them after customers complained it looked like they were giving the stiff-armed Hitler salute that is outlawed.
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Barely a creature was stirring in primetime on Christmas Eve. And on Christmas night, more Americans were inclined to watch the Von Trapp family flee the Nazis than revisit George Bailey's classic holiday season meltdown.
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Germany seeks to restrict far-right rallies ahead of sensitive WWII anniversary events.
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MUNICH, Germany  - Up to 10,000 Germans and  assorted glitterati braved heavy snow on Saturday to bid  farewell to a flamboyant German fashion designer murdered  earlier this month.
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A neo-Nazi party has embarrassed the German government by winning parliamentary seats in Chancellor Angela Merkel's home state.
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German leaders on Friday scrapped a proposal to create an extra working day by moving the holiday marking German reunification, bowing to a swell of criticism that the government had lost respect for the nation&#39;s history.
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Vandals burned a small Israeli flag and knocked over candles at a Berlin memorial to Jews deported during the Holocaust, police said Wednesday.
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Austrian prosecutors are investigating  young soldiers seen exchanging Hitler salutes in a video that  appeared on the Internet, Defense Minister Norbert Darabos said  on Tuesday.
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The must-buy gift for German far-right extremists this Christmas is a 2005 pocket diary that sets out red-letter days for neo-Nazis, from Hitler's birthday to forgotten SS anniversaries.
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A US Christmas display referring to jailed dissidents causes a serious row between the long-time enemies.
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CLEVELAND - The packages were labeled as toys for good girls and boys and the business was called Santa's Helpers. But authorities say the packages were nothing more than a naughty ruse to cover a large-scale drug smuggling operation.
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Competition authorities raid the German offices of some of world's biggest manufacturers of chocolate.
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Drape black bunting over the holiday decorations. Carve an ice sculpture of a pinstriped Satan. The Evil Empire has struck again.
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VIENNA, Austria (AP &#151; St. Nick, nein! A ban on St. Nicholas at Vienna's kindergartens is taking some of the ho-ho-ho out of the holidays for tens of thousands of tots this year. And it's creating a political ruckus, with opposition parties accusing City Hall of kowtowing to a growing Muslim population by showing Europe's Santa the kindergarten door.
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Santa Claus can still come to town, Vienna officials said on Thursday to calm an outcry over mistaken reports the jolly mythical figure had been banned from traditional pre-Christmas visits to kindergartens.
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The famous British department store Harrods said Wednesday it had fired a Santa Claus who made "inappropriate" comments to adult visitors.
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Jewish groups and lawmakers in Britain criticized the grandson of Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday for wearing a Nazi soldier's uniform to a fancy dress party.