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Praise for Hitler and calling refugees 'untermenschen' — the members of Austria's governing Freedom Party

Report documents 38 'extreme-right' incidents since the FPÖ joined the Austrian government last year

July 4, 2018 17:46
Heinz-Christian Strache, the leader of the far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ) and Austria's Deputy Chancellor

ByLiam Hoare, Liam Hoare in Vienna

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There have been 38 incidents of “extreme-right activity” inside Austria’s Freedom Party (FPÖ) since it joined the country’s coalition government nine months ago, a report has found.

The Mauthausen Committee said the incidents had occurred at all levels of the party and included antisemitism, flirtation with neo-Nazism and incitement against refugees and other minorities.

The committee, which is is named after a former wartime concentration camp, organises Holocaust commemorations and educational events in Austria.

A number of cases of far-right activity highlighted by the report have already been widely reported — such as a call by the FPÖ’s Interior Minister Herbert Kickl to “concentrate” asylum seekers in mass quarters, triggering memories of wartime ghettos.

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