World News and Trends: Neo-Nazi terrorism in Germany
Stockpiles of arms and bomb-making equipment are stirring fears that neo-Nazi groups will mount a large-scale terrorist campaign.
Neo-Nazis and others of the far right are responsible for 130 race-related murders in Germany since the reunification of East and West Germany about a decade ago. Since March 1998 German police have discovered weapons centers, and terrorists have sparked incidents, in Berlin, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf and elsewhere.
Says Hajo Funke, professor of politics at a Berlin university and an expert on far-right extremism: "The findings of weapons by police have been getting more and more frequent ... We can expect victims in the near future to be companies, democratic organizations and left-wing groups."
Grame Atkinson, European editor of Searchlight, recently said: "What we are seeing is a very worrying trend in the organization of far-right groups with a view to committing terrorism. They are talking about creating terrorist cells ... with foreigners [being] driven out from rural areas and smaller towns."
Europe has vivid memories of antigovernment groups trying to destabilize German democracy in the 1920s and early '30s, which ultimately devastated the entire continent. (Source: The Observer [London].)
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John died on March 8, 2014, in Oxford, England, four days after suffering cardiac arrest while returning home from a press event in London. John was 77 and still going strong.
Some of John's work for The Good News appeared under his byline, but much didn't. He wrote more than a thousand articles over the years, but also wrote the Questions and Answers section of the magazine, compiled our Letters From Our Readers, and wrote many of the items in the Current Events and Trends section. He also contributed greatly to a number of our study guides and Bible Study Course lessons. His writing has touched the lives of literally millions of people over the years.
John traveled widely over the years as an accredited journalist, especially in Europe. His knowledge of European and Middle East history added a great deal to his articles on history and Bible prophecy.
In his later years he also pastored congregations in Northern Ireland and East Sussex, and that experience added another dimension to his writing. He and his wife Jan were an effective team in our British Isles office near their home.
John was a humble servant who dedicated his life to sharing the gospel—the good news—of Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of God to all the world, and his work was known to readers in nearly every country of the world.
Melvin Rhodes
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