A Hungarian lawmaker said he would resign after being caught on camera making a joke about the Holocaust. Janos Zuschlag, 27, one of the youngest members of Hungary’s Parliament, apologized for his remarks Monday. But Zuschlag, who described his comments as a “mistake, but not a sin,” said he would keep his post in the governing Socialist Party’s youth organization and run again for a parliamentary seat in 2006.
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