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Holocaust denier Manfred Roeder was invited to speak at the extreme-rightist and racist Alianza Nacional party headquarters on the subject: "My Life for the Reich".
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PARIS (EJP)---An International Jewish human rights organization has protested to Spain against the appearance on Friday in Valencia of convicted German Nazi sympathizer and Holocaust denier Manfred Roeder.
Roeder was invited to speak at the extreme-rightist and racist Alianza Nacional party headquarters on the subject: "My Life for the Reich".
In a letter to Spanish Interior Minister, Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, the Paris-based Simon Wiesenthal Centre's director for international relations, Shimon Samuels,
noted that the event is billed as "Europe Arise – Manfred Roeder in Valencia... to awaken European youth from its forced lethargy since 1945".
The letter continued, "a young Hitler Youth defendant of Berlin in 1945, jailed in 1982 as a 'terrorist' for the attacks by his 'Deutsche Aktionsgruppen' neo-Nazi organization on asylum seekers' hostels, Roeder was released in 1990. Imprisoned once again in 2005 for incitement to hatred, he has been associated with the American Ku Klux Klan and, reportedly, with Iranian campaigns against the West."
The Simon Wiesenthal Centre called upon Spain’s Interior Minister "to abide by Spain's commitments under anti-racist provisions of the European Union, the Council of Europe and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe."
"The Pact of Moncloa, which ensured the return of democracy to Spain, is betrayed by the polluting presence of Manfred Roeder on Spanish soil. Neither should the youth of Spain be tainted by such voices of racist, anti-Semitic and anti-migrant incitement."
