Hundreds of neo-Nazis held a rally in Bulgaria’s capital Saturday commemorating a Nazi-allied Bulgarian general, after efforts to ban the march failed.The Sofia demonstration, known as the Lukov March, honors former Bulgarian war minister and leader of the pro-Nazi Union of the Bulgarian National Legions Hristo Lukov.Clad in black and under a heavy police presence, the far-right activists marched with torches to the home where Lukov lived where they laid wreathes, the Sofia Globe reported.

Research looking into collaboration in Greece was considered taboo for decades, as was the case in many European countries. Stratos Dordanas, assistant professor for modern and contemporary European and Balkan history at the University of Macedonia, explained this phenomenon to DW.

In late November 2019, the office of Hungary’s far-right prime minister, Viktor Orban, announced it would donate $3.4 million to causes fighting anti-Semitism in Europe.

Ladislav Niznansky was charged with ordering the shooting of 146 civilians in Slovakia in January 1945 and the execution of 18 Jews found hiding a month later, as a member of a Slovak division of Nazi collaborators.The mass shootings of mainly women and children were to punish villagers for assisting partisans.