World IN BRIEF : POLAND : Probe Is Ordered of Auschwitz March
Poland’s prime minister ordered a probe into a provincial governor’s decision to let a far-right group stage a march at Auschwitz that outraged both Roman Catholics and Jews. Prime Minister Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz said the governor of the province where the World War II concentration camp is located had been summoned to Warsaw to explain his decision. About 100 supporters of a fringe nationalist group marched Saturday between the twin death camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau, shouting or displaying anti-Western and some anti-Semitic slogans.
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