Ragnarock is a

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run by

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Steven Roth Institute
in

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. They also sell records from other companies via mail order, for instance

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's''Anti-semitism worldwide'' by Universitat Tel Aviv
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magazines such as British Oi. The company was founded in

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by Lars Magnus Westrup, a former SS volunteer. After

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he spent some time in

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and was impressed by the use of media for propaganda purposes. When he returned to Sweden after Franco died he became head of propaganda for the Progress Party (''Framstegspartiet''). When he died May 16, 1995, the company was taken over by

. Because of their good co-operation with

they are in direct competition with

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. In October

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the Swedish police raided the office of Ragnarock to investigate hate speech charges and found, apart from master tapes and documentation also two fully loaded machine guns and a hand grenade.

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