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Germany: Lake Constance Business Forum
(77WABC) — A German official appointed to confront antisemitism has been accused of “Jew-hatred” after he accused the “father of the Israel Defence Forces” of being a “murderer”.
Michael Blume — the German state of Baden-Württemberg’s commissioner for combating antisemitism — accused Major-General Orde Wingate of being a “war criminal” and “British murderer”. His comments first appeared on his Twitter account.
Following Blume’s comments, several leading military, diplomatic and intelligence experts in the UK, the US and Israel have urged the government of Baden-Württemberg to fire him.
Wingate famously created and led a special unit called the Chindits that conducted guerilla warfare behind Japanese lines in the Burmese jungle. Wingate and nine other persons were returning from Burma March 24, 1944, when their USAAF B-25 bomber crashed in northeastern India, killing everyone aboard.
