Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal called on Austria to make a full accounting of Nazi-era economic exploitation of its Jewish population. “Everything must be investigated — for historical reasons,” Wiesenthal said in an interview Monday. “The history of the suffering of Jews is also Austrian history.”
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