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June 11, 2009

Holocaust museum suspect known to hate-trackers

Asked about Holocaust museum shooting suspect James von Brunn, Baltimore Jewish Council Executive Director Arthur C. Abramson tells The Baltimore Sun "we are aware of his past, but he's not a name that immediately came to mind."

Sun colleagues Scott Calvert, Brent Jones and Paul West have produced an interesting report examining the 88-year-old von Brunn's history and views. The World War II veteran and commercial artist apparently was well known among hate groups and those who track them.

According to the Anti-Defamation League, von Brunn's "magnum opus" was a self-published anti-Semitic book called Kill the Best Gentiles. He has written many anti-Semitic essays and in recent years maintained an anti-Semitic Web site, holywesternempire.org.

Read the rest of the story at baltimoresun.com.

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About Matthew Hay Brown

Matthew Hay Brown writes and blogs about faith and values in public and private life for The Baltimore Sun. A former Washington correspondent for the newspaper, he has long written about the intersection of religion and politics. He has reported from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East, traveling most recently to Syria and Jordan to write about the Iraqi refugee crisis.

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