French legislator in hot water over pro-Hitler statement

A French MP is facing prosecution for allegedly endorsing Hitler's crimes against the Roma (Gypsies) during a confrontation with travellers. Gilles Bourdouleix has tried to defend himself after he was recorded saying "maybe Hitler didn't kill enough of them" during the incident on Sunday. He says he was just repeating the words of the reporter who recorded him. But Interior Minister Manuel Valls said he should be punished "very severely" for the "unacceptable" remarks. I think so too. The Roma have already suffered enough during the Holocaust, and it's not that Hitler didn't kill enough of them - by killing even one Roma, he killed too many. And speaking of the Holocaust, a poster campaign has launched in Germany aimed at tracking down the last surviving Nazi war criminals and bringing them to justice. Some 2,000 posters showing the entrance to the Nazi Auschwitz death camp and asking people to come forward with information have been displayed in Berlin, Hamburg, and Cologne. The US-based Simon Wiesenthal Center offers rewards for useful information. It estimates there to be sixty people alive in Germany fit to stand trial. Some are suspected of having served as guards at Nazi death camps or being members of death squads responsible for mass killings, particularly early on in the war. "Unfortunately, very few people who committed the crimes had to pay for them," leading international Nazi hunter and the centre's Jerusalem branch director, Efraim Zuroff, said. "The passage of time in no way diminishes the crimes." And it in no way diminishes the severity of Bourdouleix's antiziganist remarks either.