Denial of National Socialist Persecution of Roma

A nationalist group is planning to erect a special kind of memorial stone on the site of a Nazi concentration camp for Roma in south Bohemia. On the stone will be written that this was merely a labour camp, thereby denying that it was once a concentration camp. Paul Verner agrees with those expressing outrage. "The project is aimed at testing how many racist provocations the Czech state is willing to put up with... Unfortunately, this means that influential politicians such as President Vaclav Klaus and the communist EU representative Miloslav Ransdorf act as chief witnesses for the neo-Nazis. They too once denied that the concentration camp had been anything more than a labour camp. In doing so, they gave racists an ideological alibi."

» more information (external link, Czech)
More from the press review on the subject » History, » Czech Republic
All available articles from » Pavel Verner

» To the complete press review of Friday, January 13, 2006