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By Gabriella Borter<br><br>Aug 14 (Reuters) - James Fields walked into the former Nazi concentration camp in Dachau, Germany, on a school trip two years ago and told a classmate he was "where the magic happened."<br><br>The account was one of several describing Fields' white supremacist views that emerged in telephone and Facebook interviews on Monday, two days after his arrest on a murder charge for ramming his car into a group of people objecting to neo-Nazis rallying in Charlottesville, Virginia.<br><br>Several students who attended Randall K. Cooper High School with Fields in Union, Kentucky, recalled him as an angry young man who spoke admiringly about the Nazis and Adolf Hitler.<br><br>Fields' court-appointed lawyer, Charles "Buddy" Weber, could not immediately be reached for comment.<br><br>Fields, 20, made a brief court appearance via video link on Monday. A judge denied bail for Fields, accused of killing one woman and injuring at least 19 other people on Saturday.<br><br>During the June 2015 school trip, Fields spat on a Russian war memorial in Germany and refused to shower because he did not want to use what he called "that dirty pig water," according to a former classmate who has known Fields since childhood.<br><br>At Dachau, Fields looked like "a kid at an amusement park," said the classmate, who asked not to be identified for fear of being targeted.<br><br>"He would read excerpts from Mein Kampf, and listen to Nazi propaganda music at night," the classmate told Reuters.<br><br>Another former high school classmate, Morgan Stidham, said she did not know Fields well and never saw him doing anything violent.<br><br>"I only overheard him talking about things like Nazi stuff and how amazing Hitler was," Stidham said.<br><br>Caleb Orndorff, who went to the same high school and who is black, said he and his brother once got into a verbal confrontation with Fields and that Fields called them a racial slur in response.<br><br>Fields displayed an unusual fascination with Hitler, his former history teacher, Derek Weimer, told several news outlets.<br><br>"My first feeling: I failed, we failed," Weimer told the Toledo Blade newspaper after learning of the charge against Fields.<br><br>White nationalist groups gathered in the Southern college town of Charlottesville on Saturday in a "Unite the Right" rally to protest the planned removal of a statue of Confederate army commander General Robert E. Lee from a park.<br><br>Fields was among several rally participants whose pictures were shown on social media. The Anti-Defamation League posted a picture on Twitter that appeared to show Fields carrying a shield affiliated with Vanguard America, a white nationalist group. In a statement, the group denied that Fields was a member.<br><br>Fields' mother, Samantha Bloom, said he told her he was attending a rally but did not describe it in detail, according to the Blade.<br><br>"I thought it had something to do with Trump," she told the newspaper. "I try to stay out of his political views."<br><br>Soon after graduating high school in 2015, Fields joined the U.S. Army but left by December after failing to meet training standards, the Army said in a statement.<br><br>Fields and his mother, who is confined to a wheelchair, moved from northern Kentucky to the town of Maumee in northwestern Ohio about a year ago for her job, according to the Blade. Fields began living in his own apartment several months ago and traveled to Virginia for Saturday's rally.<br><br>Fields' father was killed by a drunk driver months before his birth, the Washington Post reported, citing an unidentified uncle. (Reporting by Gabriella Borter in New York; Additional reporting by Taylor Harris in New York and Scott Malone in Charlottesville, Va.; Writing by Joseph Ax; editing by Grant McCool)<br><br>If you loved this report and you would like to receive more information concerning Top jewel Diamond kindly go to the page.