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YouTube criticized in Germany over anti-Semitic Nazi videos
By Reuters
Tags: Germany, YouTube, Nazi 

Video-sharing Web site YouTube has met with harsh criticism in Germany for hosting clips that incite racial hatred, according to a news report due to be broadcast on German public TV late on Monday.

The videos hosted on YouTube include clips of a 1940 anti-Semitic propaganda film "Jud Suess" and two music videos of outlawed German far-right rock band Landser, which show footage from World War II depicting Nazi military operations.

Report Mainz, which is due to air the program, said in a statement that Social Democrat (SPD) parliamentarian Dieter Wiefelspuetz said airing the clips on YouTube in Germany was scandalous.
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Report Mainz quoted him as saying: "Publishing these films amounts to aiding and abetting incitement of the people."

Report Mainz also said that Germany's Central Council of Jews Vice President Salomon Korn was considering pressing charges against Google Germany.

According to the statement from Report Mainz, German youth protection body Jugendschutz.net has complained to Google Germany more than 100 times and asked Google, which bought YouTube last year, to remove the clips.

Some of the material has been on the site for almost a year.

Google Germany was not immediately available for comment.

More than 60 years after the Holocaust, Germany is grappling with a rise in support for Nazi ideas. Neo-Nazi violence in Germany has reached its highest level since reunification in 1990
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  1.   ...aiding and abetting incitement of the people 22:24  |  Chick 27/08/07
  2.   What is the context of the Jud Suess clips? 22:46  |  Don Camillo 27/08/07
  3.   freedom, is freedom to see everything 23:14  |  Patriot 27/08/07
  4.   just removed 23:33  |  Christopher 27/08/07
  5.   censorship? 00:37  |  Michael 28/08/07
  6.   Selective freedom of speech 00:58  |  Bill 28/08/07
  7.   #3: how true 01:07  |  Paul Freedman 28/08/07
  8.   @ 2 , the context of the movies 01:34  |  Dutchman 28/08/07
  9.   Germany Heading for Dark Ages and Fascism 01:44  |  Mr. Knowitall 28/08/07
  10.   #2 Don Camillo 01:51  |  guy 28/08/07
  11.   #2 You misunderstood the video 03:05  |  Gili 28/08/07
  12.   #3 Freedom of Expression does not protect incitement to violence 03:07  |  Gili 28/08/07
  13.   Why censor it? 03:44  |  Jon 28/08/07
  14.   You Tube needs to ge its act together 05:32  |  You Tube user 28/08/07
  15.   JUD SUSS.Was required viewing for the SS and enlisted men 05:39  |  PETER SM 28/08/07
  16.   It`s Been A While Since I Was In Germany But... 05:40  |  Yosemite 28/08/07
  17.   GUY @8 Thank you for making it clear.Says lots about D.Camillo 05:41  |  PETER.SM 28/08/07
  18.   KNOWITALL.The neo Nazi stuff coming from OFFICIAL Islamic 06:38  |  PETER SM 28/08/07
  19.   So why is Youtube censoring pornography? 06:50  |  Bill 28/08/07
  20.   Google censorship in China and Youtube bans breasts but not nazis 08:18  |  don 28/08/07
  21.   The fearless ghost hunters 08:50  |  Rowan Berkeley 28/08/07
  22.   Pornography, Perverts, And Nazis... 09:14  |  Yosemite 28/08/07
  23.   Yosemite 10:12  |  Bill 28/08/07
  24.   Information Manipulation 10:23  |  Analyst 28/08/07
  25.   Anal-ist 13:36  |  Albert Seligman 28/08/07
  26.   PETER SM - Who cares about the source - Censorship is Censorship 23:51  |  Mr. Knowitall 28/08/07
  27.   Rowan the painter 22:34  |  sweis Melbourne 17/10/07
  28.   rise of nazism 22:41  |  sweis Melbourne 17/10/07
  29.   you tube 01:00  |  jawad 19/10/07
  30.   Google Moderate Safesearch now filters the word "Nazi" completely 17:25  |  David Howard 17/04/09
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