The Austrian Jewish community, joined by the Austrian Resistance Movement and Catholic and Socialist organizations requested the Government here today to immediately order the discharge of Prof. Taras Borodajkewicz, a history teacher at the University of Vienna, who had admitted in one of his classes that he had been a member of the SS, the Hitlerite elite unit, during World War II.
Minister of the Interior Czettel ordered an investigation to determine whether the professor is engaged in neo-Nazi activity. This weekend, students demonstrated against Prof. Borodajkewicz in front of the university, protesting what they called his “anti-Semitic and anti-democratic” lectures. At the same time, several hundred students inside the campus cheered the teacher. Police guarded him when he left the campus.
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