Schroeder warns against neo-Nazi threat
 
By Philip Blenkinsop

BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has reminded Germans on the eve of Auschwitz commemorations that ordinary people
empowered the Nazis and urged them to be vigilant against a continued far-right threat.

Schroeder insisted the evil of the Holocaust could not be blamed solely on the "demon Hitler".

"The evil of Nazi ideology was not without preconditions. The brutalization of thought and the loss of moral inhibitions had a history. But,
above all, Nazi ideology was wanted and made by people," Schroeder said in an advance text of a speech he will make in Berlin on Tuesday.