Word: viorel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Behind the dry legal charge stood a far more bloodcurdling allegation: that this bespectacled man of God was once Viorel Trifa, head of a pro-Nazi youth organization in Bucharest. Witnesses accuse him of delivering an anti-Semitic speech in January 1941 (sample: "A group of Jews and Jew-lovers are ruling everything") that helped to incite rioting during which hundreds-perhaps thousands-of Jews were slain. (The official report listed 236 dead, half of them Gentiles...