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Four suspected neo-Nazis face trial in Upper Austria

Four suspected neo-Nazis face trial in Wels, Upper Austria on 9 and 10 June.

Three of the four men, aged 19 to 27, from Ebensee in Gmunden district, are said to be members of the neo-Nazi group "Kampverbund Oberdonau" (Upper Danube Fighters League). Upper Austria or "Oberösterreich" was renamed "Oberdonau" by the Nazis.

The men also reportedly used the Nazi greetings "Heil Hitler" and "Sieg Heil" in public, had some 1,000 CDs with extreme-right-wing content and neo-Nazi writings, T-shirts, and stickers in their possession.

The group also reportedly had a T-shirt with the inscription "It is time to realise that the Third Reich did not surrender" and stickers with portraits of senior Nazi official Rudolf Hess.

The men are said to have sung the opening song in the official Hitler Youth song book while travelling on a train in Austria in 2007.

The news of the men’s trial is the latest about neo-Nazi activities in Austria.

Five teenage boys attacked French and Italian Holocaust survivors at the former Nazi concentration camp at Ebensee early this month.

The Austrian media recently reported that some people had occasionally been seen in a Salzburg discotheque wearing neo-Nazi uniforms and displaying other neo-Nazi regalia.

The media reported on Tuesday that Upper Austrian police were investigating an alleged neo-Nazi event at a nightspot in Gmunden district featuring the playing of Third Reich music by a German band.

Austrian Times

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