Italy’s deputy prime minister, who serves as the leader of the right-wing National Alliance party, made his first visit to the only Nazi death camp in Italy. Gianfranco Fini, whose National Alliance has roots in an earlier, neo-Fascist party, laid a wreath during a low-key visit to La Risiera di San Sabba, which is now a memorial to the Shoah.
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