“I might phrase my views a little differently, but fundamentally there is no change.”

— Siegfried Kampl, a 69-year-old Austrian politician who has recently made explicit his sympathy for the Nazis, and who has condemned what he claims was the “brutal persecution” of Austrian Nazis following the Second World War. He has also denounced as “assassins of battle comrades” the Austrians who deserted their posts in Nazi Germany’s military units.

While Kampl’s pro-Nazi sympathies inspired horror among his colleges, he did, unfortunately, inspire one of his peers; several days after Kampl’s outburst, John Gudenus, a right-wing politician, asserted that the existence of gas chambers employed by the Nazis in their concentration camps “remains to be proven.”

Mimi Hanaoka