The team from Landgasthof Kaiserbrunn, who have a long history themselves, have put that of the Habsburgs’ onto their menu. The small inn in Reichenau an der Rax, Austria, which serves up a range of regional Austrian dishes to hungry guests, has dug out some of the most traditional recipes of the Habsburg era. With […]
An Austrian soldier faces a trial for buying flags showing banned Nazi era signs and slogans while participating in an international peacekeeping mission. A spokesman for the defence ministry said today (Tues) a colleague of the militiaman informed superiors when he showed the items to him while on patrol at the Golan Heights in Syria. […]
A Lower Austrian confectioner faces legal consequences for offering cakes depicting Nazi era logos.Maria Enzersdorf-based businessman Manfred Klaschka was reported to the police by the Austrian Mauthausen Committee (MKÖ), an organisation focusing on keeping up the memory of the Nazis victims.Prosecutors in Wiener Neustadt are expected to press charges under the Austrian anti-Nazi propaganda law […]
Bosses of national broadcaster ORF have come under pressure over a Holocaust joke in a popular late night show.It emerged today (Fri) that ORF officials were forced to censor the most recently produced episode of “Willkommen Österreich”. The show, which is co-hosted by Dirk Stermann and Christoph Grissemann, is produced a few days before its […]
Hundreds had to be evacuated as explosives experts disarmed a 500-kilo World War Two-era aerial bomb in Vienna-Donaustadt this morning (Thurs).Police in the capital said they decided to evacuate several housing estates and the nearby Arbeiterstrandbad swimming pool which was packed at temperatures of around 30 degree centigrade before the interior ministrys team […]