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A group of Auckland Grammar School students are facing disciplinary action after photos of them bowing down in front of Nazi regalia appeared on Facebook.
The images showed the boys, in school uniform, kissing a swastika, making a Nazi salute, and kneeling in homage before a Nazi flag at an Auckland War Memorial Museum exhibition, Radio New Zealand reported.
The photos were posted on social networking website Facebook, but have now been taken down.
Returned and Services' Association national president Robin Klitscher said the boys' actions were disgusting.
"Above all it's profoundly ignorant and I think that is probably what causes the greatest offence," he said.
"Would these young folks have done the same thing in front of the holocaust exhibition, for example."
Auckland Grammar School principal John Morris said there was absolutely no justification for the immature and unthinking actions of the boys.
All the students involved had been interviewed after the school became aware of the photos on Friday, and their families would be informed today, he said.
- NZPA
