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Many pupils in Norway use a neo-Nazi website when they look for answers for questions regarding Second World War, writes the Norwegian daily Dagbladet.
The website belongs to a small extreme-right group, Vigdis. Tore W. Twedt, the group’s chairman, openly declares his sympathy to Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany, denies the Holocaust and notoriously attacks anything that has to do with Jews or Israel.
In a recent interview with Dagbladet, Twedt said his group had stepped up its activities among schoolchildren and students “to supply them with answers they won’t get in school”.
He said the website receives an average of four to five questions a week, most of them about the Holocaust.
Legality questioned
“We tell youngsters not to believe the vicious propaganda about the six million Jewish victims, who supposedly lost their lives during the war. These are all lies and fabrications by international Jewry, who rule the world by controlling world finance and media,” he said.
 We tell youngsters not to believe the vicious propaganda about the six million Jewish victims, who supposedly lost their lives during the war
Tore W. Twedt | When asked if such information would not be dangerous to be used by pupils in their schoolwork, he answered that he warns pupils to use this kind of information “in a subtle way”.
Norwegian police have opened an inquiry into the legality of the Vigdis website, but Norwegian human rights’ organisations doubt whether this stream of propaganda can be stopped.
Two years ago the Norwegian Supreme Court gave permission for similar propaganda to be disseminated, “as long as it is a general point of view, and does not personally point at a certain individual”.
Website must be banned
Ole Melboye Petterson, the head of SOS Racism, a Norwegian watchdog against racism, said he was worried about the Vigdis’ activities, but added that there was little hope of stopping the organisation through legal means.
“I am shocked and terrified about the damage such false information can do to young people. It must be stopped. The problem is that in Norway we have little experience of how to [stop such activities],” Petterson said.
The problem is that in Norway we have little experience of how to [stop such activities]
Ole Melboye Petterson | Halvard Holleland, the chairman national pupil’s organisation, also hopes that the website which he says “spreads ideas which are totally foreign to the values of most Norwegians”, will be banned.
Academic authorities at the University of Oslo on Wednesday refused to approve a doctoral thesis about the Second World War. The paper, “Race war”, written by Olav Bergram, 66, failed on the grounds that it provided insufficient documentation to prove its premise that the WWII was justified.
It argued that Nazi Germany had had no other choice but to react against Communist Soviet aggression and that the Norwegian Nazi dictator Vidkun Kvisling was “the most brilliant and visionary politician of his time”.
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