...[P]ro-Nazi Croatian singer Marko Perkovic, together with his band Thompson, will play in Melbourne on December 29.The executive director of the B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission is asking that the band's visas be denied.
Thompson has publicly expressed its support for the Ustashe, a pro-Nazi regime that was responsible for the murder of tens of thousands of people during World War II, and was known for singing nationalistic songs in support of Croatia.
The American Anti-Defamation League reported that concertgoers wore black shirts with Ustashe insignia and gave Nazi salutes while Thompson played.
The Israel director of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, Dr Ephraim Zuroff, told The European Jewish Press in July that a sell-out Thompson concert in Zagreb would “encourage Croatian extremist nationalists by giving official sanction to an event that constituted a brazen display of the symbols of Croatian racism, anti-Semitism and xenophobia.”...
I used to think that Nazism was dead. But evil never completely dies. It's always waiting in the wings.
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