Neo-Nazis Rampage at Buchenwald Site
Published: July 25, 1994
BERLIN, July 24— A gang of 22 neo-Nazis went on a rampage at the site of the Buchenwald concentration camp on Saturday night, throwing stones, shouting Nazi slogans and threatening to burn a woman who works there, the police said today.
A tour bus carrying 21 young men and one woman pulled up at the former camp, now a national memorial to the 56,000 people who died there between 1937 and 1945. They shouted "Sieg Heil!" and gave the stiff-armed Hitler salute. They broke a window in a barracks building and pulled out a cart that was part of an exhibit on inmates' labor. And they threatened a staff member.
"One of them said to this woman, 'I'll burn you with my own hands,' " said Oswin Werner, a policeman from the adjacent city of Weimar, who was interviewed on television.
All 22 were detained briefly for questioning, but only one remained under arrest today, although prosecutors were considering whether to bring charges of disturbing the peace.