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'Neo-Nazis infiltrate WWII re-enactment group'

A British re-enactment society that has portrayed the SS in films and on television has been infiltrated by neo-Nazis, according to a BBC investigation.

People associated with the Second Battle Group, which featured in Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, claimed they were members of the far-Right Blood and Honour organisation and complained of German blood being tainted by "jigaboos".

The claims were made in footage filmed by the BBC Panorama unit, which followed the SBG during a show in Kent this summer.
Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)