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                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: FRIDAY, August 25, 1995                   TAG: 9508250079
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-5   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: BERLIN                                LENGTH: Short

`FARM BELT FUHRER' WILL BE EXTRADITED

The Danish supreme court Thursday approved a German request to extradite American neo-Nazi Gary Rex Lauck, the so-called Farm Belt Fuhrer accused of smuggling racist propaganda into Germany for more than 20 years.

Sporting a toothbrush mustache modeled after his idol Adolf Hitler, Lauck flung a stiff-armed Nazi salute and shouted at reporters in German as he was driven from the Copenhagen courthouse in a police van following the high court's ruling.

The 42-year-old Nebraska resident was arrested March 20 at the request of German police while visiting an extremist group in Denmark. He now faces up to five years in prison in Germany, where federal law prohibits dissemination of Nazi symbols, literature and other paraphernalia glorifying the Third Reich.

- The Washington Post 


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