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Faces covered with jerseys, the schoolboys who worshipped Nazi memorabilia have arrived at the Auckland War Memorial Museum to apologise.
The pupils admitted taking photos of themselves in school uniform kissing a swastika, making a Nazi salute, and kneeling in homage before a Nazi flag on a visit to the museum.
The images appeared on social networking site Facebook, but were laterremoved.30am accompanied by a teacher.
The students arrived at the museum about 9. They refused to speak to the media and covered their faces with their jerseys. They will apologise to museum staff and meet with war veterans to explain their actions.
Earlier this month, Lincoln University fined 15 students $200, made them write an essay on the Holocaust and visit the Holocaust Centre and the German embassy, both in Wellington, at their own expense. The students were scheduled to visit the Holocaust Centre today. .
Auckland Grammar principal John Morris said the incident happened at the beginning of the year, although the school first learned of the photos on Friday after a former pupil viewed them on Facebook.
Meanwhile, Race Relations Commissioner Joris de Bres said he was ashamed to be an old boy of Auckland Grammar after the actions of the schoolboys.
The pupils’ families were told yesterday and the boys will face unspecified disciplinary action. Mr Morris said there was “absolutely no justification for the immature and unthinking actions of the boys”.
This is the second high-profile embarrassment for Auckland Grammar this year.
This is the second high-profile embarrassment for Auckland Grammar this year.
“It might seem a long time [ago] to them, but it’s still in the lifetime of young survivors.
Holocaust Museum director Inge Woolf wants a meeting between the pupils and Holocaust survivors such as herself.
“It’s very upsetting for anyone that understands how terrible the Nazis were.”
Ms Woolf fled from Vienna when the Nazis invaded, and came to New Zealand in 1958 after her family were killed in the Holocaust.
. We certainly don’t want that here in New Zealand – it’s not the way the New Zealand society behaves,” she said
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Police accused of hypocrisy
Tuesday, 03 March 2009
The Government is under mounting political pressure to investigate why a top police officer refused to be breath tested amid allegations police bosses are showing hypocrisy in their handling of the controversy.
But police are warning media "not to rely on inaccurate speculation" over the actions of Superintendent Graham Thomas, who members of the public say they saw slumped over the steering wheel of his police-issue car, smelling of alcohol, before offering to call him a taxi. .
"They're very critical when people don't come forward with information or come forward with information that is false," Peter Williams, QC, said.
And a senior lawyer has labelled the actions of the police hypocritical.
"When you hold yourself out to be a member of that group and you do something that, on the face of it, seems to breach that, the word hypocrisy does seem to come into play, doesn't it?"
The can now reveal more details about the Friday night in December when Mr Thomas, a former adviser in former police minister George Hawkins' office, refused a breath test.
"They're always, and quite rightly so, encouraging people to act responsibly, respect law and order and be true and faithful in what they say.
A volunteer community patrol saw a red Ford Falcon parked behind the Mobil station in Johnsonville with a man slumped over the steering wheel.
The man, whom they said was white and aged between 40 and 50, declined.
Concerned when they returned and he was still there, they knocked on his window and spoke to him, reporting they could smell alcohol in the car and offering to call a taxi.
The attending police knocked on the door and asked Mr Thomas to do a breath test.
Soon after, they saw the same car swerving and driving erratically and radioed the registration number to police, followed him to his home and waited for police to arrive.
Mr Thomas was within his rights to refuse a breath test, but critics have questioned whether he was under a stronger moral obligation to co-operate, given his position. He refused.
Police have refused to answer questions about the case because of privacy issues, but yesterday urged "the media not to rely on inaccurate speculation about the employee's statements on the night in question".
Police have refused to answer questions about the case because of privacy issues, but yesterday urged "the media not to rely on inaccurate speculation about the employee's statements on the night in question".
Mr Cosgrove said continuing speculation about the case damaged public trust in police and undermined their good work.
Police Minister Judith Collins is distancing herself from the controversy, refusing to comment because it is an employment issue.
. He said Ms Collins must reassure the public that proper processes were followed