The Austrian resistance movement has demanded the resignation of a top politicians who belonged to a Nazi SS unit that committed war crimes, Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal disclosed two weeks ago that he had documentary proof that Friedrich Peter, chief of the right-wing Freedom Party, had been a member of the First SS Infantry Brigade that had murdered more than 8000 Jews in occupied Soviet Union.
Peter admitted that he had been a member of that unit but said he had never taken part in any executions or murders, “Peter belonged to a criminal organization and never denounced its atrocious activities,” the resistance movement said in a press release. “It is difficult to distinguish him from the SS murderers and therefore he should resign,” it said.
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