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Nazi hunter slams Latvian Holocaust parade

Efraim Zuroff has condemned Latvian officials for allowing an event commemorating the Nazi invasion of Riga to go ahead.

June 30, 2010 11:52
Efraim Zuroff

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Jennifer Lipman,

Jennifer Lipman

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The world’s most prominent Nazi hunter has condemned Latvian officials for allowing an event commemorating the Nazi invasion of Riga to go ahead.

Efraim Zuroff, of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Israel, criticised the refusal by a Latvian court to call off the procession on July 1 as an “outrage”.

Mr Zuroff said: "To celebrate the anniversary is to celebrate the mass murder of all those victimised by the Nazis in Latvia -- primarily Jews, but also Communists, Gypsies and the mentally ill.”

The American-born activist has dedicated his life to finding unprosecuted Holocaust war criminals and bringing them to justice.

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