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School head resigns after Nazi parade

THE principal of a high school in Taiwan has stepped down after students held a Nazi-themed parade.

Photos and videos circulated online of students wearing mock Nazi uniforms while holding swastika flags and banners, some laughing and dancing, during a parade to celebrate the school’s 62-year anniversary.

A teacher joined in the procession and was seen giving a Nazi salute as he stood inside a tank made of paper cartons, according to local media.

As the students marched, a compere announced: “Here comes Hitler, salute to him students, or the tank will crush you later or you will be taken to the gas chamber,” according to a video posted on Apple Daily’s website.

As criticism mounted, Cheng Hsiao-ming, head of Kuang Fu High School in northern Hsinchu city, apologized for allowing the parade to go ahead and tendered his resignation.

“We made a mistake and I will take the responsibility to step down,” he said, promising that other school officials would also be punished.

The Israel economic and cultural office in Taipei issued a statement condemning the incident as “tasteless” and “outrageous.”

“It is deplorable and shocking that seven decades only after the world had witnessed the horrors of the Holocaust, a high school in Taiwan is supporting such an outrageous action,” it said in a Facebook post.

Taiwan’s education authorities have demanded that the school improve students’ history education.


 

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