Austria’s far-right Freedom Party (FPOe) says it has expelled a local party official for hoarding Nazi memorabilia, in embarrassing revelations less than three weeks before national elections.
A local activist revealed that Martin Hochstoeger had hung a plaque commemorating Hitler’s 1938 annexation of Austria in a back room of his pharmacy in the town of Landeck, in Tyrol state.
Hochstoeger, ex-president of the local pharmacists’ association, also kept in a display case pieces of cloth with insignia including the SS Death’s Head and the Nazi eagle, photos on the activist’s blog showed.
Markus Abzwerger, head of the anti-immigration FPOe in Tyrol, announced on Facebook today that Hochstoeger has been expelled from the party, saying that a “red line had clearly been crossed.”
— AFP
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