Switzerland’s finance minister fired an official from his ministry because of anti-Semitic articles he wrote for an Internet site. Last week, Swiss media joined the nation’s Jewish leaders in calling for the dismissal of Hanspeter Sutter, who wrote that if Hitler had “killed all the Jews, Switzerland would not have to pay billions to Holocaust survivors.”
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