Neo-Nazis Get Jail Sentence

FRANKFURT, West Germany —  A court jailed West Germany’s two top neo-Nazis on Friday for distributing leaflets advocating formation of a new Nazi party modeled after Adolf Hitler’s.

Michael Kuehnen, 29-year-old former West German army lieutenant, head of the banned National Socialist Action Front, was sentenced to 3 years and 4 months. Arnd-Heinz Marx, Kuehnen’s aide, was sentenced to 2 1/2 years.

Kuehnen, considered the most intelligent and charismatic personality in the neo-Nazi movement, ended the trial as he began it in November. He stretched his right arm out in the Nazi salute and shouted “Resistance.”