German high school students in Argentina dress up as Nazis, attack Jews

Students from a German high school in Buenos Aires caused outrage after dressing up with swastikas and Hitler mustaches and engaging in a fight with Jewish students at a nightclub party in the resort town of Bariloche, in south-western Argentina.

One of the mothers of the children who were attacked recounted the episode to Rádio Latina, saying "at a certain point in the night, young people came wearing swastikas and had painted-on Hitler mustaches. They all ended up fighting, and everyone was kicked out of the club – not just the aggressors," she said.

The families have condemned the club, saying that the club management should never have let the students dressed as Nazis into the club in the first place.

The director of the Lanus Oeste German School, Silvia Fazio, said "those students must understand that this is wrong, that this must never happen again and that it is totally abhorrent".

"I am terrified, this is a scandalous act, and it is not enough to apologize”, Fazi said. Though the trip to Bariloche was not organized by the school, Fazio said her students would visit the Buenos Aires Holocaust Museum together with the ORT school kids.

“This is not a joke or funny," said Ariel Cohen Sabban, the president of the Argentine Jewish umbrella organization DAIA. He noted that had the teenagers over 16, they might have faced between one month and three years in prison.