Wiesenthal Center Expresses Outrage At Nazi Flag Flown by Kaunas Bar

September 19, 2006

Wiesenthal Center Expresses Outrage At Nazi Flag Flown by Kaunas Bar

The Simon Wiesenthal Center today issued a statement expressing its outrage at the flying this week of a Nazi flag at a Kaunas bar which also dressed an employee who greeted its customers as Adolf Hitler.

In the statement by chief Nazi-hunter Dr. Efraim Zuroff, the Center issued a call for the prosecution of those responsible for this outrage and called upon the Lithuanian authorities to respond in an unequivocal manner, which will make clear that such behavior cannot be tolerated.

According to Zuroff:

“The time has come for the government to make it unequivocally clear that Nazi symbols and figures have no place in democratic Lithuania. Perhaps if the Lithuanian authorities had exhibited the necessary zeal in prosecuting and punishing local Nazi war criminals, Nazi flags would not have been flown in Kaunas this week. But in a country in which those who facilitated the annihilation of Lithuanian Jewry are treated with undue sympathy and mercy, Nazi flags should come as no surprise.” 

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