Hitler Youth-style camps raided

Berlin - German police staged raids on Thursday on a far-right group suspected of using Hitler Youth-style camps to indoctrinate young people in Nazi ideology, the interior ministry said. The nationwide raids at 06:00 (04:00 GMT) on the "Heimattreue Deutsche Jugend" ("German youth true to the homeland") group saw about 100 flats and other premises used by at least 100 people searched, a ministry spokesperson said. The spokesperson declined to comment on whether people under 18 were targeted in the operation, which also saw unspecified materials seized. The group hit the headlines in August when police raided a camp it had set up in a remote area of northeastern Germany, sending home 39 adolescents... [read full story]