Teacher Who Praised Hitler Worked As Nazi-Themed Exotic Dancer
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — Argentine Jews said they will take legal action against a history teacher who praised Adolf Hitler to her students at a Catholic school — and was then revealed to be working also as an erotic dancer.
Denise Yanet Evequoz was banned from teaching last week at the Jesus Maestro high school near Buenos Aires after a video emerged of her telling her history students that “Jews took advantage of the people who needed money,” among other anti-Semitic statements. She also said that Hitler was demonized when the United States entered World War II and seemed to justify why Europe was “always anti-Semitic.”
Amid an outcry over the video, it was revealed that Evequoz also worked as an erotic dancer. Under the stage name Ana Elisa Duprat, she had performed partially nude in a show titled “Bloody Burlesque.” Photos from the show also show her wearing a Nazi armband. Some photos show her covered in artificial blood in what appears to be a night club.
“We will never tolerate this type of expressions that go against democracy and peaceful coexistence, distorting history,” the DAIA Jewish umbrella group said in a statement Thursday about the remarks that Evequoz was filmed making. “We calls those who have the responsibility to educate, to condemn these acts.”
The head of the school, Alberto Coronel, told reporters Wednesday that Evequoz was relieved of her teaching duties but did not say whether she will continue to work for his school
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