Facebook group shut as users call for Nazi camp reopening

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A Facebook group calling for the “reopening” of Austrian concentration camp Mauthausen was taken offline after winning more than 13,000 members, officials have said.Political scientist Markus Rachbauer said members of the group called “Child abusers, we’ll reopen Mauthausen for you!” belittled Nazi era crimes.”People posting messages there called for torture and murder,” he said.Facebook user […]

Vienna pretzel closing in on Tokio Hotel on Facebook

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A pretzel put on Facebook by an Austrian student has won the support of hundreds of thousands of netizens.Martin Samorajski from Vienna said he decided to create a platform for the snack in order to find out whether it would spark a larger fan base than German teenage pop band Tokio Hotel.The pretzel had 380,000 […]