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Miller also defaced a synagogue. Though he was sentenced to more than five years for these crimes, he was released after serving only two years in prison. Oddo and Galleon killed the man, Douglas Garrett, by hitting him with a baseball bat and kicking him with their heavy boots.

Oddo and Galleon were subsequently convicted of murder. Less than two years later, in the summer and fall of , members of the New Dawn Hammerskins defaced two synagogues, harassed black patrons of a local bookstore and assaulted two black girls in Brockton and Randolph, Massachusetts. In July , these Hammerskins were charged with conspiring to intimidate and interfere with the rights of black and Jewish citizens.

The leader of the group, Brian Joseph Clayton, was also the only adult among the defendants. He pled guilty to the charges and received 46 months in prison. The next major incident of Hammerskin-related violence took place on March 17, , in an open field near Temecula, California.

They apparently chose to attack him simply because he was black, approaching him without provocation at an unplanned youth gathering. Miskam reportedly hit Bowen over the head with a beer bottle, and when Bowen asked him why, Miskam allegedly replied, "We don't like niggers here; I don't like niggers. They cut and stabbed Bowen on his head and back before he escaped to a stranger's home.

Witnesses indicated that after attacking Bowen, the Hammerskins started goose-stepping, giving Nazi salutes and singing German songs. On August 16, , a grand jury indicted the four adult Hammerskins involved in the attack Miskam, Butler, Yantis and McDaniel on charges of attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder with enhancements for gang affiliation and commission of a hate crime.

In addition, lawyers representing Bowen filed a civil suit that aims to force all six Hammerskins involved in the attack, their families, and the Hammerskin Nation to pay Bowen general and punitive damages.

The suit alleges that the Hammerskins are a "street gang," as defined by the California Penal Code, and describes the group as encouraging its members, including the defendants, "to commit acts of violence and intimidation against African-Americans to promote their white supremacist goals.

As it faces a lawsuit that could bring about its bankruptcy, the Hammerskin Nation has encountered internal ills. It is likely that the discontinuation of Hammerskin Press, announced online in September , was the result of infighting. In another incident, when a group of Northern Hammerskins used extreme violence in rescinding the membership of a colleague who "wasn't living up to his oath," five of its members were "kicked out" of the Hammerskin Nation.

Eight others quit and joined these five in forming the Outlaw Hammerskins, which now claims to have chapters in four Midwestern towns. According to Hammerskin Press, the Hammerskin Nation will never recognize "these wannabe renegades" as "any kind of Hammerskin in any way shape or form. Despite these challenges, the Hammerskins remain unbowed. No LAWS will ever break us! So for all you 'Renegade Gangsters' out there, your actions brought us closer. What the HELL were you thinking???

But while the stories of the men who served aboard the Baja California may be lost to history, the ship still has a tale to tell. Scuba divers can still find old bottles around the wreck, especially after a storm. According to the ship's manifest, the Baja carried a general cargo, which included tobacco and cotton, as well as military vehicles and several tons of empty bottles.

As the ship was sinking, the bow section split off and now rests about 50 feet from the rest of the wreck. Salvagers removed the ship's foot steel propeller years ago. The wreck lies midway between Fort Myers Beach and the Dry Tortugas in feet of water, which makes it a trip only for "advanced" divers.

The Baja is completely encrusted in barnacles, sea anemones and other marine life, the decks having collapsed decades ago. If you dive the Baja today, you undoubtedly will encounter large schools of amberjack that seem to serve as silent sentinels for the sunken ship below. The Baja also has a resident barracuda population, which can make it difficult for spear fishermen to get their catch to the surface. The Empire Mica, sunk off the Panhandle, as well as a half-dozen wrecks off Canaveral and Fort Pierce, also are popular diving destinations.

The U-boats -- and there are three known to have sunk off Florida's coast -- tend to be in deeper water and, as a result, are visited only by technical divers trained in the use of mixed gas.

German media identified her as Irmgard Furchner. The case against Furchner relies on German legal precedent established in cases over the past decade that anyone who helped Nazi death camps and concentration camps function can be prosecuted as an accessory to the murders committed there, even without evidence of participation in a specific crime.

A defense lawyer told Der Spiegel magazine that the trial would center on whether the year-old had knowledge of the atrocities that happened at the camp. According to other media reports, Furchner was questioned as a witness during past Nazi trials and said at the time that the former SS commandant of Stutthof, Paul Werner Hoppe, dictated daily letters and radio messages to her.

Furchner testified she was not aware of the killings that occurred at the camp while she worked there, dpa reported. From mid, tens of thousands of Jews from ghettos in the Baltics and from Auschwitz filled the camp, along with thousands of Polish civilians swept up in the brutal Nazi suppression of the Warsaw uprising. In the video, the participants are seen firing short barrel rifles and other assault-type rifles.

Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, made the announcement. Reporter Trevor Dunnell can be reached by email at tdunnell jdnews. Facebook Twitter Email. Trevor Dunnell The Daily News.