NOTEBOOK: EARLY TRAINER DESCRIBES ARNOLD'S HATRED OF NAZIS.

Byline: Daily News Staff and wire reports

GRAZ, Austria - Arnold Schwarzenegger's former trainer described Saturday how the California gubernatorial candidate helped break up neo-Nazi gatherings as a teenager.

Trainer Kurt Marnul told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview that Schwarzenegger was ``filled with rage against the Nazi regime'' and took part at least twice in organized disruptions of neo-Nazi gatherings during the 1960s.

Marnul said he would send Schwarzenegger and his other young weightlifters to use their menacing brawn to intimidate neo-Nazis into leaving.

Marnul remembered him as a quiet boy obsessed with weightlifting and expressed disbelief that the action star professed admiration for Adolf Hitler, as news accounts in the United States allege.

``It's absurd. It's 100 percent wrong that he could have ever liked Hitler,'' Marnul said, sitting on a bench in his gym, a dark basement filled with aging weightlifting equipment where Schwarzenegger began training at age 15.

'Dirty, dirty politics'

MERCED, Calif. - Schwarzenegger went on the attack Saturday, denouncing the latest sexual harassment allegations made against him as untrue and charging that all of the 11th-hour allegations were an effort to ``torpedo'' his campaign for governor.

``They're trying to torpedo my campaign. They're trying to make me look bad out there so that people vote no,'' Schwarzenegger said during a stop near Clovis on Day 3 of his campaign bus trip across the state.

``Why have they not called me? Why has no one said 'Arnold you went too far.' If someone said this to me I would apologize immediately. ... This is all about the politics, the dirty, dirty politics.''

In Merced, where he was joined by his wife, Maria Shriver, Schwarzenegger joked briefly about the allegations, pulling away after a supporter at an In-N-Out burger stand hugged him. ``Don't do it! Don't do it! Otherwise it will be in the paper again,'' he told her.

``I already knew I was voting for him anyways,'' Debra Vargas of Merced said after getting her hug.

Davis: change recall law

Gov. Gray Davis on Saturday was flying around the state with several big-name Democrats in a last-ditch effort to persuade people to vote no on the recall. Recent polls showed more than 50 percent of likely voters support the measure. The other leading candidates to replace Davis, Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante and state Sen. Tom McClintock, R-Thousand Oaks, were also making appearances.

Davis said in a television interview he believes the state's recall law has to be changed to require that there be cause shown for the removal of a public official or the state could face future recalls based on politics.

``Now, in the era of the Internet, it is a lot easier to get signatures and recall someone,'' Davis said.

Democrats, in the meantime, continued to try to hammer at Schwarzenegger over whether or not he made comments praising Adolf Hitler as well as the accusations of his groping of women.

Show us the outtakes

In a telephone conference call, California Democratic Party Chairman Art Torres and several Democratic lawmakers called on Schwarzenegger to release copies of the outtakes of the film ``Pumping Iron,'' where he is said to have made the comments.

``It is unacceptable for us to go into an election with a man who says he can't remember if he admired Hitler or not,'' Torres said. ``Does he think it's appropriate for him to think he can be governor with that kind of answer?''

Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Los Angeles, said Schwarzenegger needed to prove his fitness for the office.

``I think we need someone with more maturity than he has shown,'' Waxman said.

The Schwarzenegger campaign has said there is no reason to release any additional information, citing statements from the film's producer that the quoted comments on Hitler were taken out of context.