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- <title>
- Feb. 15, 1993: Rock Raids
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Feb. 15, 1993 The Chemistry of Love
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 17
- WORLD
- ROCK RAIDS
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- <body>
- <p> It is called, obscurely, oi music. A better name might be
- Swasrock: an ugly subgenre influenced by punk and heavy metal--but glorifying such far-right symbols as the Nazi swastika.
- The music, played by some 50 bands, provides a bond for
- Germany's neo-Nazi movement, a suspected source for much of the
- xenophobic violence that has claimed 17 lives in the past year.
- In a swift crackdown, German police raided studios, homes and
- offices, confiscating thousands of records and CDs. Whether
- anti-Nazi laws were broken remained unclear, since the operation
- produced no arrests.
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- </body>
- </article>
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