A man has lashed out at a reporter for questioning why he flies a Nazi flag above his home in regional Australia.
Bill and his partner Cheryl are the talk of Beulah, Victoria, after it was revealed they had hoisted a relic of Nazi Germany above their home.
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There are only around 400 people in the town, about four hours outside of Melbourne, but Bill and Cheryl's actions have made world news.
When A Current Affair descended on his property this week to find out what the motivations were behind the flag, Bill came out with scissors in his hand and started yelling at them to get off his property.
"Put your camera f***ing down. Don't f***ing touch it. Just f***ing leave," he said to a cameraman.
Despite being criticised by the Victorian Premier, Bill insists that he's never had a single complaint about the flag.
"Nobody has come here and even said anything about the f****ing flag, not even a neighbour, not even nobody so just f*** off," he told the Channel 9 programme.
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Sadly for Bill, the show had video evidence of at least one person confronting Cheryl about the sickening flag and it proves they don't care they're offending people.
When one person asked her politely to take it down because it was ruining the town's reputation, she replied with: "Good. I've put Beulah on the f***ing map then haven't I?"
According to the Daily Mail, a Holocaust survivor lives on the same street as Bill and Cheryl. The 83-year-old man lost both his parents while they were in concentration camps.
A neighbour told Channel 9: "[The survivor has] still got the tattoo on his arm. Both his parents were gassed and he was next. He's quite upset, he wants to be left alone, he doesn't want any trouble with anybody.
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"This is absolutely disgraceful they fly this bloody thing. I swear to God I was going to jump his fence, pull the thing down and burn it in his driveway. Everyone is furious about it."
But this week the flag eventually came down. Bill refused to do it himself and got a police officer to take it down.
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While it seems to have addressed the immediate problem, campaigners are worried that this is a bandaid to a bullet wound.
Dr Dvir Abramovich, Chairman of the Anti-Defamation Commission, said it was a travesty that these things still happen.
"While I welcome the removal of the Nazi flag by the police in Beulah, this does not in any way address the core problem which is that the flying of the Nazi flag in Victoria is still not against the law,' he told Daily Mail Australia.
"It is terrifying to think that in Australia in 2020 there are individuals walking our streets who are proud Hitler worshippers, who openly celebrate his evil ideas which led to the gas chambers where millions of men, women and children were horrifically murdered, and who believe in a world without Jews, without Muslims, without gays, without the disabled and without anyone who they deem undesirable."
Featured Image Credit: Channel 9