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Holocaust denier’s jail term upped

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An infamous neo-Nazi has had his prison sentence extended over controversial statements in two books.Gerd Honsik was sentenced to two years in prison by Vienna Criminal Court judge Andreas Böhm yesterday (Fri).The 68-year-old Austrian doubted the existence of gas chambers at Nazi era death camps in his books “Der Juden Drittes Reich” (The Jews’s Third […]

Anti-Rosenkranz ‘sea of candles’ draws 3,000

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Around 3,000 people attended a “sea of candles” protest march against the Freedom Party’s (FPÖ) presidential candidate Barbara Rosenkranz in Vienna last night (Thurs), according to police.Rosenkranz has come under fire over failing to make clear her statements about Austria’s Nazi past and the existence of gas chambers at the Third Reich’s death camps.The ultra-conservative […]