Romania maintains a double standard on the Holocaust

Construction work announced three years ago has finally begun in Bucharest on a Holocaust memorial, despite public protest over the fact that 30 trees must be felled to make way for the structure. The daily Evenimentul Zilei writes: "The truth is that both the authorities and many Romanians don't want a memorial at all, something to remind them that our predecessors, simple people and soldiers, humiliated, tortured, deported and murdered hundreds of thousands of innocent people. Romania has always wanted to have it both ways with regard to the Holocaust. There was the report of the Wiesel Commission which first gave birth to the idea of the Holocaust memorial. In addition Romania has passed a law banning Nazi symbols under pressure from the intenational community, which was worried about the growth of anti-Semitism and the cult surrounding [Ion] Antonescu - the man in charge of the deportations and pogroms."

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