Nazi prank taints Argentina German school

Nazi prank taints Argentina German school

26 August 2016



Bariloche lies by a lake in the Andes foothills

Boys from a Buenos Aires German school brawled with Jewish students at a disco in Argentina - and now they will have to visit a Holocaust museum together. The visit was decided on by outraged school authorities and parents.

Argentinian media report that the fight erupted in Bariloche, an Andean tourism centre, after some Lanus Oeste German School boys sported Hitler moustaches and Nazi swastikas on their bodies.They will go on an educational trip to the Holocaust Museum in Buenos Aires. Three of the Lanus Oeste boys were immediately sent back to Buenos Aires from the resort city. The brawl took place during a fancy dress party at a disco on Tuesday night.

Parents of students from the ORT Jewish School in Buenos Aires said the three from Lanus Oeste had "provoked and insulted" ORT boys with their pro-Nazi gesture.

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A number of wanted Nazi war criminals fled to Argentina after World War Two, and were sheltered by far-right Argentinian military officers. Bariloche has decades-old German links. Controversially, a notorious SS commander, Erich Priebke, lived in the city after the war, until his extradition to Italy in 1995.

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