Provocation with Kosovo flag in Mauthausen
This year's commemoration of the 64th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Mauthausen was marred by neo-nazi excesses and a provocation by the self-proclaimed state of Kosovo with its flag raised at the site alongside those of countries of origin of the camps' victims.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Kosovo's attempt to politicize the commemoration failed, as Serbian diplomats and head of the war veterans' organization SUBNOR Ljubomir Zecevic protested to the organizers.
The protest was successful and the hosts took down the Kosovo flag, Serbian Ambassador to Vienna Dragan Velikic said.
Over 200,000 people from more than 30 European and other countries were incarcerated in Mauthausen from August 8, 1938 to May 5, 1945, when US troops liberated the captives.
About 120,000 people died in Mauthausen. There were about 7,000 Serbs among the inmates, and over one half of them did not survive.
