The Simon Wiesenthal Center has asked the U.S. Department of Justice to permanently bar Franz Schonhuber, leader of Germany’s far-right Republican Party, from entering this country by putting his name on the U.S. “watch list.”
Schonhuber, a former member of Hitler’s elite Waffen SS, claimed he had been invited to speak next month before New York’s prestigious Council on Foreign Relations. A senior official of the council denied that any such invitation had been extended, according to Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Wiesenthal Center.
Last week, the leaders of all German mainstream political parties refused to appear with Schonhuber in a televised debate.
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