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August 24, 2005
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The Simon Wiesenthal Center called on Australian and Hungarian authorities to investigate the World War II activities of an Australian citizen. Hungarian-born Lajos Polgar, 89, has admitted to Australian media that he was a high-ranking official in the fascist Hungarian Arrow Cross Party, which was responsible for the persecution and murder of thousands of Hungarian Jews.

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