Vienna, Austria – Austrian far-right presidential candidate Barbara Rosenkranz drew sharp criticism from the country’s Jewish organizations Tuesday – who highlighted her controversial stance on Holocaust deniers. Rosenkranz, 51, has criticized Austria’s anti-Nazi law, which outlaws Holocaust-denial, as a curb on free speech.
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Freedom Party politician Rosenkranz is the only other nominee besides Social Democratic incumbent Heinz Fischer. He is widely expected to win the April 25 election.
Rosenkranz’s candidature was a “mockery of the 65,000 Austrian Jews killed in the Shoah,” the Jewish communities said in a statement.
They called on the public, civic groups and other parties not to boycott Rosenkranz’s bid – although she stands no reasonable chance of winning.
Pollsters predict that the Freedom Party nominee could collect over 20 per cent of votes. Other parties have not fielded candidates, citing Fischer’s popularity.
In the 1980s, her husband Jakob Rosenkranz was active in a neo-Nazi party NDP, which has since been banned.
What Europeans call the Far Right (Nazis and their apologists) is actually the Extreme Left according to American standards. The National Socialists (Nazis) were a Left-wing party of Socialists that took their strategy right from the Karl Marx play book. Socialists like to tax and spend, socialists want government control even over trivial aspects of your life and socialists believe in euthanizing “inferior” people, all of which are anathema to Right Wingers.
What do you expect from the birthplace of hitler y’m.
people still a little shiker from purim ?
How could it be that out of six million Jews only 1 percent were from Austria? Something doesn’t make sense, especially if it is held that three million died in Poland.
Austria is the most anti-semitic country in Western Europe. It is the only country that open welcomed the Nazis and in an undisputedly fair plebiscite welcomed the Nazis. A record as the only normal election the Nazis won. Present day German certainly has its faults but to its credit has in the past 50 years apologised for their crimes, paid out billions in compensation and consistently supported Israel. Nthing compared to their crimes but Austria has done none of these, hence their penchant for holocaust denial.
And BTW. The Nazis were a socialist party. Jews have never suffered under, or persecuted by Right wing governments. Right wing anti-semitism is a fiction invented by the anti-semitc left to cover their views and crimes.
Why there are still Jews living in Austria and Germany is beyond me. I can’t stand hearing German being spoken on the streets of NY. How can these Jews live there, when these countries (and Poland too) are soaked with Jewish blood?
VIN is posting some important political/historical news unfortunately some of the readership have the brain dulled by the current rabble rousing talk shows without knowing any history. Hitler was supported by the entire German industrial might, by the German officer choir , by the Catholic and Protestant Church what more to do you want and it is now openly supported by Bishop Williamson in
Britain, he was also supported by Ford and Lindbergh in the United States, anymore needed
The entire officer corps including the Austrian officer corps wasraring to start the war, eager to put all Jews in concentration camps and the Hitler Youth sang “wenn Judenblut vom Messer spritzt”when Jewish blood spurts from the dagger and it did. The world watched and applauded him