https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Austria in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Austrian authorities said Tuesday they have arrested a rapper accused of broadcasting neo-Nazi songs, one of which was used by the man behind a deadly anti-Semitic attack in Germany. https://www.thelocal.at/20210203/austrian-rapper-arrested-over-neo-nazi-songs Wed, 03 Feb 2021 13:23:09 +0100 austrian-rapper-arrested-over-neo-nazi-songs An Austrian court has ruled that a German tourist who took exception to a World War II portrait in an Austrian guesthouse had no right to complain about it on travel sites. https://www.thelocal.at/20190907/tourist-told-to-pull-nazi-grandpa-comments-in-austria Sat, 07 Sep 2019 11:21:05 +0200 tourist-told-to-pull-nazi-grandpa-comments-in-austria A debate thrown up by Austria's troubled history is gripping the normally sedate wine-growing scene: should the renowned "Zweigelt" variety ditch a name harking back to a Nazi party member. https://www.thelocal.at/20181214/austrias-most-popular-red-wine-bears-a-nazis-name-and-must-change-it-group-argues Fri, 14 Dec 2018 16:08:59 +0100 austrias-most-popular-red-wine-bears-a-nazis-name-and-must-change-it-group-argues Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen warned against "the politics of scapegoating" on Thursday as his country marked the 80th anniversary of the Nazis' anti-Semitic Kristallnacht pogrom. https://www.thelocal.at/20181109/austrian-president-warns-against-scapegoating-on-anniversary-of-nazi-pogrom Fri, 09 Nov 2018 11:10:54 +0100 austrian-president-warns-against-scapegoating-on-anniversary-of-nazi-pogrom Austrian paediatrician Hans Asperger, after whom Asperger's syndrome is named, "actively cooperated" with the Nazi euthanasia programme, according to a new study published on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.at/20180419/dr-asperger-actively-cooperated-with-nazis-study Thu, 19 Apr 2018 10:55:28 +0200 dr-asperger-actively-cooperated-with-nazis-study The far-right Freedom Party said on Friday it had expelled two local councillors for sharing Hitler photos and quotes on WhatsApp, in yet another embarrassment for Austria's junior coalition partner. https://www.thelocal.at/20180323/another-day-another-nazi-scandal-for-austrias-co-governing-freedom-party Fri, 23 Mar 2018 15:09:47 +0100 another-day-another-nazi-scandal-for-austrias-co-governing-freedom-party Austria's foreign ministry has summoned an attaché from its embassy in Israel after he posted a picture of himself on social media wearing a T-shirt bearing the name of a Nazi tank division. https://www.thelocal.at/20180321/austria-orders-diplomat-home-from-israel-after-posing-in-nazi-t-shirt Wed, 21 Mar 2018 13:40:58 +0100 austria-orders-diplomat-home-from-israel-after-posing-in-nazi-t-shirt Austria on Monday marks the 80th anniversary of its annexation by Nazi Germany, with the country's President Alexander Van der Bellen urging young people not to be "taken in" by neo-fascist and far-right ideologies. https://www.thelocal.at/20180312/austria-marks-80-years-since Mon, 12 Mar 2018 13:58:06 +0100 austria-marks-80-years-since Austria's far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ) was hit by fresh allegations of anti-Semitism on Tuesday, just weeks after a similar scandal forced the resignation of a high-ranking party candidate. https://www.thelocal.at/20180220/new-nazi-songbook-allegations-hit-austria-far-right Tue, 20 Feb 2018 17:39:08 +0100 new-nazi-songbook-allegations-hit-austria-far-right A scandal in Austria over a student fraternity songbook with lyrics glorifying Nazis has put the new government under pressure and prompted soul-searching about the country's relationship with its past. https://www.thelocal.at/20180202/austria-shaken-by-nazi-songbook-scandal Fri, 02 Feb 2018 15:19:41 +0100 austria-shaken-by-nazi-songbook-scandal An Austrian far-right figure at the centre of a scandal over a songbook praising the Holocaust has stepped down, blaming a "media witch-hunt". https://www.thelocal.at/20180201/austrian-far-right-figure-resigns-over-nazi-song-book-scandal Thu, 01 Feb 2018 17:21:24 +0100 austrian-far-right-figure-resigns-over-nazi-song-book-scandal Austria's highest court ruled on Friday in favour of last year's controversial expropriation of the house where Adolf Hitler was born, ending a long-running bitter saga between the state and the former owner. https://www.thelocal.at/20170630/austria-was-justified-in-taking-hitlers-birth-house-from-its-former-owner-court Fri, 30 Jun 2017 14:45:57 +0200 austria-was-justified-in-taking-hitlers-birth-house-from-its-former-owner-court Almost all the staff at a notorious Vienna clinic where the Nazis killed hundreds of disabled children kept their jobs after 1945 and subjected other inmates to abuse and neglect. https://www.thelocal.at/20170314/vienna-nazis-who-killed-hundreds-of-disabled-children-kept-their-jobs-report-says Tue, 14 Mar 2017 20:59:46 +0100 vienna-nazis-who-killed-hundreds-of-disabled-children-kept-their-jobs-report-says Plans to build a sausage and bacon factory on the site of a former Nazi forced labour camp in Austria have been heavily criticised by locals. https://www.thelocal.at/20170216/sausage-factory-to-be-built-on-site-of-former-nazi-forced-labour-camp Thu, 16 Feb 2017 13:21:49 +0100 sausage-factory-to-be-built-on-site-of-former-nazi-forced-labour-camp An Austrian Neo-Nazi has been sentenced to two years and nine months in prison under the country’s anti-Nazi law. https://www.thelocal.at/20170125/austrian-neo-nazi-jailed-for-selling-hitler-songs-online Wed, 25 Jan 2017 13:55:12 +0100 austrian-neo-nazi-jailed-for-selling-hitler-songs-online The museum at the former Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp in Poland has urged Germans and Austrians to hand over any material that could shed light on its wartime staff. https://www.thelocal.at/20170118/auschwitz-seeks-death-camp-items-from-austrians-and-germans Wed, 18 Jan 2017 15:05:59 +0100 auschwitz-seeks-death-camp-items-from-austrians-and-germans Austrian daily newspaper Oesterreich has been criticized on social media for publishing misleading propaganda in the run-up to Sunday's presidential election. https://www.thelocal.at/20161203/oe24-newspapers-misleading-journalism Sat, 03 Dec 2016 15:14:28 +0100 oe24-newspapers-misleading-journalism A policeman in Austria was sentenced on Thursday for shouting "Heil Hitler" at a driver during a traffic check at the Hungarian border in April. https://www.thelocal.at/20161020/austrian-policeman-sentenced-over-heil-hitler-salute Thu, 20 Oct 2016 18:44:05 +0200 austrian-policeman-sentenced-over-heil-hitler-salute An Austrian has been sent to jail after being found guilty of posting a montage of Nazi-inspired photos onto social media, including one of a cat making a Heil Hitler salute. https://www.thelocal.at/20160812/austrian-who-posted-hitler-cat-photo-is-jailed Fri, 12 Aug 2016 14:18:35 +0200 austrian-who-posted-hitler-cat-photo-is-jailed Two brothers in Austria may face charges after one of them leaned out the car they were both travelling in and shot at two asylum seekers walking on the pavement. https://www.thelocal.at/20160727/austrian-teen-shoots-at-asylum-seekers-from-car Wed, 27 Jul 2016 14:36:07 +0200 austrian-teen-shoots-at-asylum-seekers-from-car