The far-right candidate in an Austrian state election is under pressure to step down after a magazine report about song texts celebrating the Holocaust and other Nazi atrocities.
According to the Falter weekly, Udo Landbauer of the Freedom Party (FPOe), which is in the national governing coalition, is deputy chair of a student fraternity behind a songbook containing the texts.
The Austrian Freedom Party’s Udo Landbauer (YouTube screenshot)
According to the left-leaning weekly, the lyrics of one song read: “In their midst comes the Jew Ben Gurion: ‘Step on the gas, old Germanics, we can make it to seven million’.”
Other songs pay tribute to the Condor Legion, the Nazi unit responsible for the bombing of Guernica in the Spanish Civil War, as well as paratroopers behind atrocities in Crete in World War II, Falter added.
— AFP
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