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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDT "advisor" Sebastian Gorka (no one knows what he does), wears a Nazi-linked medal.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/sebastian-gorka-made-nazi-linked-vitezi-rend-proud-wearing-its-n742851"When he appeared on U.S. television ... with the medal of the Vitez Order ... it made me really proud," Vitezi Rend spokesman Andras Horvath said in the Hungarian capital of Budapest. Vitezi Rend is also known as the Order of Vitez.
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Gorka's decision to wear the medal which he said was awarded to his Hungarian-born father has provoked outrage among Jewish groups.
While in Budapest, NBC News also spoke with Andras Heisler, the Hungarian vice-president of the New York-based World Jewish Congress, who said that wearing the medal "isn't a good message for a democratic society."
Under the Direction of Nazis
Vitezi Rend was founded in 1920 by Hungarian ruler Miklos Horthy to award medals to Hungarian veterans of World War I. But the group's history became murky after the country allied with Nazi Germany in 1938.
Heisler told NBC News that members of the organization were likely complicit in the murder of some of the hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews toward the end of World War II.
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DT "advisor" Sebastian Gorka (no one knows what he does), wears a Nazi-linked medal. (Original Post)
pnwmom
Aug 2017
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Let's see if he and that creepy Steve Miller are kept on the staff.
The Velveteen Ocelot
Aug 2017
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The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,963 posts)1. Let's see if he and that creepy Steve Miller are kept on the staff.
They hold the same Nazi views; they just keep a lower profile.
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)2. In that picture he looks like a high school band director.
When I saw him live on one of the channels the other day they said good morning to him and he said "greetings", like any good Russian KGB agent would.
AlexSFCA
(6,139 posts)3. now that bannon is fired, the pressure should be on those two
Gothmog
(145,817 posts)4. Gorka is a nazi
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)5. Wearing your father's medal?
Is that even a thing? I can understand framing it, but doesn't wearing a medal imply you earned it yourself?