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To: LindyBill who wrote (10817)	10/4/2003 8:32:40 PM
From: Hoa Hao	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793897

Schwarzenegger, street fightin' man. Will they print this?? foxnews.com In an exclusive interview with The Associated Press, gym owner Kurt Marnul said the young Schwarzenegger participated at least twice in organized disruptions of neo-Nazi gatherings (search) near his hometown of Graz during the 1960s. Marnul, 74, recounted how he personally saw Hitler's soldiers kill three people — two Jews and a young boy — and that the experience motivated him to break up neo-Nazi rallies later in life. He told AP he described his experiences to Schwarzenegger, who was about 17 at the time, and said the young bodybuilder reacted with shock and anger. He said Schwarzenegger, whose late father served as a volunteer with the notorious Nazi storm troops, told him such horrors had never been discussed at home. "He was so outraged — so filled with rage against the Nazi regime," Marnul said. Marnuls's account came as the action film star and California gubernatorial hopeful struggles to counter allegations that he once expressed admiration for Hitler's rise to power from humble beginnings. Schwarzenegger has said he did not recall making such a remark and called the Nazi leader a "disgusting villain." "It's absurd. It's 100 percent wrong that he could have ever liked Hitler," Marnul said at his gym, whose walls are plastered with photographs of Schwarzenegger, who began training there at age 15. Marnul's interview with AP was the second refutation of claims Schwarzenegger had Nazi sympathies. On Friday, the Austrian magazine NU, which caters to the alpine nation's Jewish community, quoted former politician Alfred Gerstl as describing how Schwarzenegger and some companions once "hunted down" neo-Nazis who had gathered outside the office of a teaching institute run by an avowed anti-fascist. Marnul, who on numerous occasions asked his young bodybuilders to break up such gatherings, said Schwarzenegger and others mainly used their brawn to intimidate neo-Nazis into dispersing. He described Schwarzenegger as a "very reserved boy" whose "only interest was in shaping his body in hopes of one day becoming Mr. Universe." Schwarzenegger also has been accused of groping women on movie sets and elsewhere as an adult. Asked about his behavior toward the opposite sex while a teenager, Marnul said Schwarzenegger "had more or less no interest in women." "I think he would have liked to carry his weights to bed with him back then," he said.