A remark by a leading German economist, who compared attacks on business executives to 1920s anti-Semitism, prompted a sharp rebuke Sunday from Germany's national Jewish body.
"In every crisis, people look for scapegoats," the economist Hans-Werner Sinn said. "Even in the global economic crisis of 1929, no one wanted to believe in an anonymous system failure. Then it hit Jews in Germany, today it is managers," Sinn said, according to a transcript of an interview to be published in Monday's edition.
The newspaper said Sinn had authorized the quotes.
Sinn, who heads the Munich-based IFO economic research institute, was speaking in an interview to be published in a Berlin newspaper Tagesspiegel on Monday.
"Outrageous and absurd" remarks
"He should retract that with no ifs or buts and apologize," said Stephan J Kramer, general secretary of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, when told of the remark.
"This comparison is outrageous, absurd and completely misplaced, an insult to the victims," Kramer told the newspaper Neue Ruhr Zeitung. continues here
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