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731:"Attack on Austrian Gypsies Deepens Fear of Neo-Nazis"
247:(12 December 1949 – 26 February 2000) was an Austrian
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186:1993–1995
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400:Dalmatia
370:Oberwart
350:Slovenia
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458:suicide
396:Go back
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