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Angry German diplomats are protesting against a decision by the country's foreign minister to ban the publication of fawning official obituaries of colleagues with Nazi pasts.
In a ruling that has dismayed senior ambassadors, Joschka Fischer has put a stop to "honorific" obituaries after the publication of one that glorified a diplomat who was also a convicted war criminal.
The obituary, published in an official foreign ministry communiqué, lauded Franz Nüsslein for his "services to the country", only for it to be subsequently revealed that he had spent 20 years in prison for his role as a senior Nazi prosecutor in occupied Czechoslovakia.
Highly embarrassed, Mr Fischer, a Green Party member and former radical who is proud of his strong anti-fascist credentials, ordered that from then on, deceased foreign office staff should have nothing more than a brief death notice outlining the posts they held.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/04/03/wgerm03.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/04/03/ixworld.html IMHO: no way. The fact that it caused an outrage in the German RW camp, is reason for even greater outrage IMHO. A nazi is a nazi and will always be a nazi.Edit: replaced the MSN article with a telegraph one about the same incident