The Simon Wiesenthal Center criticized the Austrian government for allowing fascist symbols at a Croatian nationalist gathering.

Efraim Zuroff of the center's Jerusalem office sent a letter of protest to the Austrian Embassy in Israel on Wednesday criticizing Austria's "utter failure" to prevent the display of Croatian fascist symbols at a rally Sunday in the the southern city of Bleiburg. Some 40,000 people attended a rally commemorating those killed by anti-fascist Yugoslav forces in Bleiburg at the end of World War II.

Croatia was led by a pro-Hitler fascist regime, the Ustashe, during World War II.

According to Zuroff, some rally attendees wore Ustasha uniforms and were "waving photographs of Ustasha leader Ante Pavelic, the person most responsible for the genocide carried out by the Croatian state against Serbs, Jews and Gypsies during World War II."
" The fascist demonstrators at Bleiburg made a mockery of Austria's ban on the use of Nazi symbols and its law against Holocaust denial," Zuroff said in a statement.

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