Israel’s ambassador to Argentina said the Andean resort town of Bariloche is full of Nazis. “Erich Priebke was not the last one. There are more war criminals, Nazis and anti-Semites here,” said Itzhak Aviran, referring to the Italian war criminal who was extradited to Italy from Argentina and sentenced earlier this year to life imprisonment by a Rome appeals court for his role in Italy’s worst wartime massacre. Aviran was in Bariloche to open an exhibition of photographs from the Warsaw Ghetto.
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