Germany slams Romania over Hitler moustache posting
By frank jordans, associated press
BERLIN — Sep 6, 2018, 7:51 AM ET
FILE - In this March 28, 2017 file photo Bernd Fabricius, head of the German association of expellees, speaks at a reception in Berlin. Fabritius criticized representatives of Romania's governing party for engaging in "a campaign of defamation" against the southeastern European country's German minority. (Gregor Fischer/dpa via AP)
A German lawmaker has accused representatives of Romania's governing party of engaging in "a campaign of defamation" against the country's German minority.
Bernd Fabritius, who was born in Romania, said in a statement late Wednesday that the smears had recently reached "a new peak," citing a Facebook post by Romania's former finance minister, Darius Valcov, which showed the country's ethnic German president, Klaus Iohannis, with a Hitler-style moustache.
Fabritius, who was appointed by the German government to represent the interests of German minorities in eastern Europe, said he has written directly to Romanian Prime Minister Viorica Dancila, urging her to distance herself from the "collective insults" by her government or Social Democratic party.
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Romania, interestingly enough, was an "Axis power" in WWII, for however much one puts in that.
