Consternation at Austrian case of Nazi camp survivors called 'a plague'


  • World
  • Thursday, 11 Feb 2016

VIENNA (Reuters) - Concentration camp survivors voiced indignation on Wednesday at an Austrian prosecutor's statement that it was justifiable for a far-right magazine to call people who were liberated from the Nazi camp at Mauthausen a criminal "plague".

An article in the July/August edition of Die Aula said that description applied to a significant number of freed inmates, saying they committed a range of crimes nearby after Nazi guards fled at the end of World War Two.

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