Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal criticized a report issued by the center bearing his name that charged Switzerland was “thoroughly saturated” with pro-fascist groups that influenced the country’s wartime government to support the Nazis. Wiesenthal said the report’s author, Alan Schom, “did not work like a historian” and called on the center never to use him for research again. Meanwhile, Sigi Feigel, a Swiss Jewish leader, said he was exploring the possibility of launching a class-action suit against the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center for defaming Switzerland in the report. Feigel said he’d “had enough” of the criticisms of Switzerland’s wartime past.
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