Neo-Nazi bid to buy hotel in Rudolf Hess birthplace blocked

26 February 2007
Neo-Nazi bid to buy hotel in Rudolf Hess birthplace blocked

The German town where Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party deputy, Rudolf Hess, was buried has banded together to buy a hotel to stop it from falling into the hands of a prominent neo-Nazi lawyer.

The 10,000 inhabitants of Wunsiedel in Bavaria together bought the hotel/restaurant Waldlust after hearing that Hamburg-based lawyer Jürgen Rieder, who is connected to the far-right, wanted to buy it and turn it into an election campaign centre with seminar rooms for the National Party (NPD).

He also wanted to make it a Rudolf Hess memorial centre.

The price they paid for the hotel has been kept secret.

It was Rieder's second failed attempt to buy a hotel after people in Delmenhorst, Lower Saxony protested last year and prompted city authorities to buy an empty hotel in the city to stop Rieder from acquiring it.

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By Jim Glenn at CEN

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