The town became a haven for Nazis fleeing Europe after the war. “Some of them were in leathers with swastikas painted on their chests and backs,” Dan, one of the students from a Jewish school who was attacked, told Argentina’s TN television channel. Silvia Fazio, the principal of the Lanus German School, apologized, saying the incident was “absolutely indefensible” and that the children involved would be punished. “They will have to make some act of atonement for the damage caused,” said Fazio, starting with a visit to Buenos Aires’ Holocaust museum alongside students from the Jewish school. She stressed that the trip to San Carlos de Bariloche was not organized by the school, but arranged privately.

Source: National Post August 27, 2016 17:03 UTC