Cloaked in nationalism, the ideology has gained new traction amid Europe’s economic crisis, which far-right politicians have sought to blame on Jews and other ethnic minorities. Those ideas are particularly disturbing to many here, in a region where these groups were targeted for death under Germany's Nazi regime not so many years ago.
The signature of Adolf Hitler on one of his paintings, entitled 'Farmstead,' before being auctioned off in the southern German city of Nuremberg in 2009. (Timm Sschamberger/AFP/Getty Images)
"The grave...kept being misused for gatherings of sympathizers."
BUDAPEST – A political tug-of-war over an historic theater in the Hungarian capital has reignited concerns about growing anti-Semitism in this Eastern European nation.
LONDON – The question that hangs over Schulz and other pro-Europeans is, What if the democratic will of many in the eastern borderlands is racist and xenophobic? What can be done then?
L'VIV — Besides disappointment with the main democratic parties and endemic corruption around the country, Svoboda's rise underscores a swell of anti-Semitism in a part of the world where the Holocaust was at its fiercest and there are virtually no Jews left.
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