Protests over use of pro-Nazi symbols at rally
The Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Centre today said it has lodged a formal complaint with Austrian authorities over what it termed their “utter failure” to prevent the use of Nazi-era symbols during a weekend gathering of Croatian nationalists.
Efraim Zuroff, the group’s Israel director, said the centre filed a protest with Austria’s embassy in Jerusalem alleging that officials failed to stop the display of symbols at a rally on Sunday in the southern town of Bleiburg to remember victims of the post-Second World War killings there.
