Wolfgang Dröge, a white supremacist and Nazi sympathizer, has been shot to death in Toronto. He was 55. The German-born former leader of the Heritage Front, a now-defunct Canadian white supremacist organization modeled on the Ku Klux Klan, once was involved in a coup attempt on the Caribbean island of Dominica, for which he was jailed in the United States. He also had been involved in weapons and drug-related offenses. A fierce hater of Jews and non-whites, Dröge grew up hearing stories about the Third Reich from his grandfather, who had been friends with Nazi publisher Julius Streicher. Though he had lowered his involvement in white supremacist and anti-Semitic activities in recent years, Dröge attended a hearing in 2003 for Ernst Zündel, a Holocaust denier deported to Germany in March. After a dramatic standoff, police arrested Dröge’s alleged killer, but a possible motive for the shooting was not given.
