Telegraph | German neo-Nazis 'live out their SS fantasies' in the Czech Republic

Neo-Nazis wearing SS uniforms spent almost two years living out their fantasies in the Czech Republic, entertaining crowds with mock executions of ''Jewish Bolshevik agents'', "Communist partisans" and "traitors", it was revealed by German state prosecutors last week. The macabre activities of the group, which claimed to be a historical re-enactment club, surfaced after the arrest in November of its founder, Peter Schulz, a known neo-Nazi – and, embarrassingly, former German intelligence agent – who is separately facing charges for the hoarding of weapons and explosives. Police officers who raided the homes of five ''club'' members found a videotape showing Schulz, 31, dressed as a Nazi SS Hauptsturmführer (captain), barking orders at 200 uniformed ''troops''. He is seen pointing at a young German "soldier" whose hands are bound behind his back. ``This man is a coward who has deserted his comrades – shoot this pig!'' he says. The soldier is put up against a wall and "executed" by firing squad in front of a 200-strong audience of onlookers at a disused factory near the Czech town of Hradek in November 2002. The crowd apparently believed that they were being entertained by a bona fide amateur theatre club.