Singer Anna Von Hausswolff provoked nationwide outcry in her native Sweden, when Dagens Nyheter (the largest daily newspaper in Sweden) highlighted a photo of the smiling Von Hausswolff wearing a t-shirt advertising the music project Burzum, which is the solo project of Nazi terrorist Krisitian "Varg" Vikernes. After Varg Vikernes was arrested for killing his ex-friend Oystein "Euronymous" Aarseth, Vikernes was found with hundreds of kilos of explosives and thousands of bullets, with which Vikernes planned to kill young people visiting the antifascist and punk Blitz House (left-wing music space, youth centre and vegetarian café) in Oslo, Norway.

Vikernes was given the longest gaol sentence available in Norway - 21 years, including time for arson on 3 churches, which Vikernes destroyed not out of opposition to religion, but out of opposition to Christianity, which Vikernes opposes, partly because he believes Christianity is Jewish. Vikernes gave an interview to the magazine of Nazi music organisation Blood & Honour, and was in contact with the National Socialist Movement of Norway and joined the organisation White Aryan Resistance (aka WAR).

After his arrest, Vikernes associates formed a Nazi-styled paramilitary "Einsatzgruppe", stocking guns and bombs to kill political and religious opponents and to free Vikernes. When, before his scheduled release, Vikernes was granted brief leave from gaol, he hijacked a car, terrorizing 3 innocent persons at gunpoint. After his release, Vikernes was arrested again (then released) after his wife bought 4 guns. Anders Breivik sent Vikernes his manifesto. Vikernes blog says he's currently facing a possible 5-year gaol term for "inciting racial or religious hatred".

When challenged for her endorsement of this Nazi, Anna Von Hausswolff was subject to wide condemnation on social media, and described as an "apolitical idiot" in Swedish newspapers and on TV. She is not apolitical and not strictly an idiot. SVT (Swedish national TV) quotes the Burzum website as advocating (in translation) "bekämpa anti-rasismen och de som ligger bakom den, med alla möjliga medel" - "tackling anti-racism and those behind it, by all possible means", so there's no way endorsing that project's merchandise can be apolitical, and she's intelligent enough to be a degree student in architecture (she's also daughter of an artist whose theft of human ashes from Majdanek death-camp was condemned as "barbaric", as "repulsive", and as "necrophilia", by anti-racist groups and Jewish organisations). Instead of choosing to even try to explain any misunderstanding, to say sorry or to condemn Nazism, when asked, SVT reported that "Anna von Hausswolff har valt att inte kommentera" - "Anna von Hausswolff has chosen not to comment". Anna Von Hausswolff plans to perform in the UK on 15 Oct (Hoxton Bar, London) and 16 Oct (Cube, Bristol).

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