The China Post
Date: December 25, 2016
By: The China Post new staff
TAIPEI, Taiwan — A private Hsinchu high school has come under fire after its students wore Nazi
Officials from Hsinchu Kuang-Fu High School bow in apology Saturday following a school-sanctioned event during which students paraded on campus grounds in Nazi costumes. School officials said they had failed to carefully review the students’ plans for their costumes. (CNA/photos of school activity captured from the internet)
uniforms and brandished swastika banners in a school-sanctioned parade.
The Presidential Office Saturday apologized for the incident, with education authorities vowing to reduce funding to the school as punishment.
Private Kuang-Fu High School in Hsinchu also issued a statement apologizing for the parade, but said it had not intended to condone Nazi atrocities.
The apologies came after Israel’s representative office to Taiwan condemned the event.
“It is deplorable and shocking that only seven decades after the world witnessed the horrors of the Holocaust, a high school in Taiwan is supporting such an outrageous action,” Israel’s representative office said in a statement. [FULL STORY]