I am afraid that these kind of people wil shape the future of Europe. Europe is getting more and more right. My biggets concern is that the racism and far right ideas in France and Austria will jump to other European Countries.

" French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen is quoted as saying that the Nazi Occupation of France during the Second World War was not particularly brutal."
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/050112/w011238.html

Le Pen was perfectly correct: if you were a "nordic" Frenchman who didn't care what happened to other people, didn't regard the French Revolution and the freedoms it brought were good things and thought that industrialism and popular education were evil- in short, if you were the sort of old-fashioned catholic royalist or napoleonic Frenchman who supported Petain, supported Poujade and now supports Le Pen- you would be pretty comfortable under the nazis.
Certainly, the French occupation of Algeria was far more brutal.

And yet your detached analysis of what Le Pen said has no place in France where it is, apparently against the law to express views such as Le Pen did. And if he is not allowed to say it, how can you or I or anybody else debate and discuss it?

I will have no truck with racist anti-Semitic bigots like Le Pen. I will have no truck with Holocaust-deniers like David Irving. But the fact that Le Pen is now under Police investigation for having made that statement is to me contrary to everything that we fought WW2 and subsequently Communism and now dictatorship and terrorism for. What he said may have been wrong or .... or it may have been right. I don't know because apparently discussion of the issue is against the law.

Overdose, I believe that there is really no need to worry. Every statement Le Pen or other extremist makes is decried by politicians of all parties, and regardless of the general mood of the populace on an individual basis, I do not think that racism, bigotry or anti-Semitism will ever again become part of public policy in Europe.