US Envoy Slams Plans in Hungary for Statue Honoring Pro-Nazi WWII Minister

A U.S. State Department official says it is "incomprehensible" that Hungary would allow a statue honoring Balint Homan - a World War II government minister who pushed for the slaughter of Jews at the hands of the Nazis. "Honoring a man like that, we are shocked by it," U.S. special envoy for anti-Semitism Ira Forman said Sunday in Budapest. "From the U.S. government perspective, we feel very strongly that history and the damage that this man did to Hungarian...

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