Austrian far-right leader Jorg Haider apologized for sympathetic statements he has made about Hitler and the SS. During a speech in Vienna, he said his remarks “were certainly insensitive or open to misunderstanding,” and told Austrian Jews that they should not be afraid of his party, which came in second in elections last month.
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