Mentone Girls’ Secondary College is under fire after a student was filmed at school impersonating Adolf Hitler, complete with a drawn-on moustache.
Shocking footage of a female student impersonating Adolf Hitler at an all-girls high school in Melbourne’s Bayside suburbs has sparked outrage over the public classroom display.
A senior student at Mentone Girls’ Secondary College was this week filmed performing a Nazi salute while donning a drawn-on moustache that resembled the dictator’s distinctive facial hair.
A German song is played from a laptop as the student stands with her arm extended while the student filming the video, in what is believed to be a birthday tribute for another student, can be heard laughing in the background.
Anti-Defamation Commission chairman Dr Dvir Abramovich called for the school to take action over the “sickening and ugly” video.
“This is the modern face of Holocaust abuse in Victorian public schools, and this growing climate of antisemitic hostility has made many Jewish parents wonder whether sending their kids to class every morning is safe,” he said.
“This young person, who deliberately and proudly desecrated Holocaust memory and tore up the values of respect and inclusivity, must be disciplined since it is hard to believe that they did not know about Hitler’s extermination of six million Jews and millions of others.
Read the article by Olivia Jenkins and Suzan Delibasic in the Herald Sun.