Alarm over Austria far-right Freedom Party's 'frightening' video glorifying Nazi past
IENNA (AFP) — Austria’s far-right Freedom Party — which is expected to win next year’s elections — has sparked fury with a “frightening” video glorifying fascist thinkers and making knowing nods to the country’s Nazi past.
The two-minute promo — which splices an extremist conspiracy theory that white Europeans are being replaced by migrants with images of Notre Dame in Paris in flames — was made by the party’s youth wing.
But the Freedom Party’s hardline leader Herbert Kickl sprang to its defense, calling the video “great.”
“I criticize the whole pseudo furore,” he said, insisting that the video, on the party’s official YouTube channel, showed “young people… with a positive approach to their homeland and nature.”
The video shows the party’s youth wing taking part in torchlight processions and standing below the Vienna balcony where Adolf Hitler gave his iconic speech when he returned to his homeland in triumph after the Nazis annexed Austria in 1938.
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