Augsburg, Germany - German police raided homes in Bavaria state Thursday, seizing recorded neo-Nazi music and other evidence to close down a skinhead network estimated to have 15 to 20 members.

The rightists, based in the Swabia region, styled themselves the Hate Crew of Swabia, making no secret of their racist attitudes.

Police based in the city of Augsburg had been investigating the group for months and hope to indict seven men aged 26 to 33 for spreading Nazi propaganda, sedition, glorifying violence, promoting racism, money laundering and evasion of taxes.

Augsburg, Germany - November is Germany's mournful month: every year on November 1, Christians observe All Saints' Day, a general commemoration of the dead.

Introduced in 835 AD as a feast for all martyrs and saints by Holy Roman Emperor Louis the Pious, it has become the main day on which Christians visit the graves of their loved ones.

The faithful departed were originally commemorated on All Souls' Day, on November 2, a holiday established by St Odilo, abbot of Cluny (994-1048) in present-day France.