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<text id=92TT2738>
<title>
Dec. 07, 1992: The Circle of Hate Widens
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
Dec. 07, 1992 Can Russia Escape Its Past?
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
THE WEEK, Page 25
WORLD
The Circle of Hate Widens
</hdr><body>
<p>Germany's xenophobes may be targeting more than asylum seekers
</p>
<p> "It is burning in the Ratzeburger Street. Heil Hitler." In a
12:30 a.m. call to the police in the small German town of
Molln, those words announced the single worst attack on
foreigners to date--one that killed a Turkish grandmother and
two Turkish girls and injured nine other people.
</p>
<p> The incident--the latest in a year that has seen 1,800
acts of xenophobia--was horrifying, both in its own right and
as a harbinger of things to come. Since the attack was directed
against Turkish resident workers, more than 1.7 million of whom
currently live in Germany, it stoked fears that the far right
was lengthening its list of enemies beyond asylum seekers.
</p>
<p> The arson in Molln elicited more calls for stiffer laws
and sharper penalties, and at week's end, Germany officially
banned the far-right Nationalistic Front. German federal
prosecutor Alexander von Stahl took charge of the case, marking
the first instance in which he has assumed responsibility for
an investigation of far-right violence. The use of the Hitler
salute on the phone, said Von Stahl in explaining his
involvement, "indicates that the unidentified criminals wanted
to use their crime to help restore a Nazi dictatorship in
Germany."
</p>
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