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Norwegians have hit back at former Fox News presenter and Tea Party darling Glenn Beck, after he compared the country's shooting victims to the Hitler Youth in a radio show overnight.

In a monologue on the syndicated radio show The Glenn Beck Program, the conservative commentator said: "There was a shooting at a political camp, which sounds a little like, you know, the Hitler Youth or whatever. I mean, who does a camp for kids that's all about politics? Disturbing."

The Hitler Youth - Hitler Jugend - was an organisation set up by Adolf Hitler in the 1920s to indoctrinate young Germans in Nazi ideology.


Sixty-eight people died after self-confessed Norwegian "crusader" Anders Behring Breivik opened fire at the ruling Labour Party youth camp on Utoya island, which was attended by 600 people, on Friday.

Eight people died after the bombing of Norway's government headquarters in Oslo on the same day. The Labour Party is seen as left-leaning.

A former press secretary to Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg slammed Beck's statements as a "new low", saying they were "ignorant" and "extremely hurtful".

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However, his latest comments about the "disturbing" nature of political youth camps may come as a surprise to Beck's followers in the Tea Party movement.

The anti-tax, anti-immigration movement has been holding summer camps in states including Florida and Missouri where children have been taught a curriculum based on God, the US constitution and "the defence of economic liberty".

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