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  • 2018-10-15 (xsd:date)
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  • Does This Photograph Show Neo-Nazis Posing Under a Burning Swastika in Draketown, Georgia? (en)
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  • An extraordinary photograph of an American neo-Nazi rally re-emerged on social media in October 2018, prompting multiple inquiries from readers about its authenticity and the details surrounding it. A 14 October 2018 Facebook post featured a photograph of a group of people performing a Nazi salute in front of a large, upright burning swastika, with a caption warning: No, this is NOT a colorized photo from Nazi Germany in 1939. This is a photo taken in Draketown, Georgia, USA this last weekend. This is what I will continue to Fight against! This is not America!: As indicated in the meme, this image and caption were first posted to Twitter in April 2018 by Brian Krassen, a critic of President Donald Trump and editor at the liberal web site HillReporter.com: Although no neo-Nazi rally was held in Draketown over the weekend of 12-14 October 2018, one did take place there on Saturday 21 April, so Krassen's reference to this last weekend should be read in that light. The image in question does indeed capture a rally of American neo-Nazis in Draketown, Georgia, on 21 April 2018. The photograph was taken by Spencer Platt for the Getty agency and carried the following caption: The 2017 Charlottesville event culminated in the death of Heather Hayer, who was killed when James Alex Fields, a rally attendee with neo-Nazi sympathies, drove a car into a crowd of counter-protesters. Of the Newnan rally, the Times reported: (en)
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