German dissident and freedom-fighter Manfred Roeder was arrested upon his arrival at Heathrow Airport, Britain, on Monday morning. Although he has committed no offense and is not charged with anything, he was seized under the so-called Prevention of Terrorism Act and will be placed on the first plane back to Germany.
As one of the youngest soldiers in the regular army, Herr Roeder took part in the fighting for the defence of Berlin in 1945. In 1980, some members of the Deutschen Aktionsgruppen ("German Action Groups"), an organization founded by Herr Roeder, attacked buildings housing non-White asylum invaders. Although he himself never took part in these attacks, Herr Roeder was classified as a terrorist by German legal authorities and sentenced to 13 years imprisonment. He was released in 1990, after serving two-thirds of his sentence, for good behavior and “social rehabilitation.”
In 1997, a TV show revealed that in 1995, Herr Roeder had appeared, by invitation, as a speaker at the German military's officer training academy in Hamburg. This scandal, as well as the fact that Roeder had received financial donations from the military, led to the sacking of the academy's commander and the instatement of Counter-Admiral Rudolf Lange as his replacement, with the goal of restoring the good reputation of the academy.
In 1996, Herr Roeder, together with other German nationalists, attacked an exhibition in Erfurt detailing the role of the Wehrmacht in Nazi Germany, for which he was charged with property damage and fined DM-4,500. After being sentenced to prison by the state courts of Schwerin and Rostock under Germany's Volksverhetzung law (incitement to hatred), and for other crimes, he was given a further ten months in September 2004 by the state court of Frankfurt for contempt of the state.
In 1997, Herr Roeder stood as the NPD candidate for Stralsund in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern during the parliamentary elections.
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