12-20-2016, 03:32 PM
First off, I tend to agree with the thread's initial standpoint (up to a point).
Well, you don't really know our freedom party FPÖ, obviously. And you're somehow right, we have a Verbotsgesetz, wherein it's forbidden to openly commit to National Socialism, the NSDAP or deny the holocaust and all that. But the freedom party sure does walk the line here. Just as an example, the currently defeated presidential candidate (and colleagues) walked into the parliament with a blue flower - a former Nazi symbol. And sure they claim that's a huge coincidence and they never intended and bla, but what it really is is some kind of flirtation. There are several similar incidents, like FPÖ politicians quoting SA slogans ("I did not know it was a Nazi slogan"); the former head once said that the Third Reich had a decent job policy, and so on and so on...
...and the party's founders back in '45 indeed were former Nazis (and some allegedly other folk). So well, there is more truth to the words in the article than you might assume.
(12-20-2016, 03:11 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: To the first, it is patently illegal in Austria to have "Nazi sympathies" an, I'm sure intentionally, vague claim to make and seemingly made to get another chance to use the word Nazi.
Well, you don't really know our freedom party FPÖ, obviously. And you're somehow right, we have a Verbotsgesetz, wherein it's forbidden to openly commit to National Socialism, the NSDAP or deny the holocaust and all that. But the freedom party sure does walk the line here. Just as an example, the currently defeated presidential candidate (and colleagues) walked into the parliament with a blue flower - a former Nazi symbol. And sure they claim that's a huge coincidence and they never intended and bla, but what it really is is some kind of flirtation. There are several similar incidents, like FPÖ politicians quoting SA slogans ("I did not know it was a Nazi slogan"); the former head once said that the Third Reich had a decent job policy, and so on and so on...
...and the party's founders back in '45 indeed were former Nazis (and some allegedly other folk). So well, there is more truth to the words in the article than you might assume.
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