It is interesting to note what the Simon Wiesenthal Center's support for the war in Afghanistan has led to.

Simon Wiesenthal Center demands Romanian mayor´s resignation

Romanian Times

An international organization pursuing Nazi war criminals expressed outrage today (Tues) over a Romanian mayor.

The reason is that the mayor wore a World War II German army uniform at a fashion show last week.

Radu Mazare, 41, the mayor of the Romanian port of Constanta, should apologize and resign, the Jerusalem Simon Wiesenthal Center said in a statement.

The centre said Mazare should also make amends for his "incredible lack of judgement" by bringing the Hamburg exhibition "Crimes of the German Military" to his city.

The statement expressed "a sense of insult and outrage" towards the mayor, who, it said, had worn the uniform of a German army officer, while his teenage son had worn that of a German soldier.

Efraim Zuroff, the Center's director, said he had sent a letter to the mayor saying: "It would be hard to describe adequately the depth of the pain that your appearance caused, not only to Jews and other victims of Nazism, but to all people of moral integrity who know the history of World War II.

"Today, it is well-known that the German army played an active role in the mass murder of European Jewry and many other innocent victims. By dressing in a German army uniform, you expressed totally-unwarranted support and nostalgia for an army that committed the most terrible war crimes and acts of genocide.'

Mazare, who goose-stepped while wearing the uniform at a week-end fashion show, said in response: "All armies kill civilians. Even the Romanian military has killed civilians in Afghanistan."

Under Romanian law, the use of Nazi or fascist symbols can be punished by up to five years’ imprisonment.