The deputy chairman of the Australian Government’s Parliamentary Defense Committee urged Jewish ex-servicemen and others to protest the army’s apparent lack of concern after it was reported that three former members of an elite unit were neo-Nazi members of a skinhead rock band called “Blood Oath.” Roger Price said “the idea that there is a significant penetration of an army unit by extreme-right influences would disturb quite a number of people.”
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