‘We Are the New Jews’: Austria’s Far-Right Party Hosts Ball with Neo-Nazis on Holocaust Day
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VIENNA (AP) — Far-right Austrian politicians were widely criticized Monday for comparing protests against a fancy ball that attracts extremists to the Nazis’ persecution of Jews.
Vienna’s Jewish community demanded an investigation into the remarks but the Freedom Party insisted no harm was meant.
The comments by Freedom Party leader Heinz-Christian Strache and an associate were first reported Sunday on the website of the daily Der Standard, but they drew little attention until Monday.
The furor extended the controversy over Friday’s far-right ball, which attracts guests who include the neo-Nazi fringe and was held this year on the same day the world pays tribute to victims of the Holocaust.
Police recorded only isolated violent incidents Friday from demonstrators outside the Viennese palace where the ball was being held. But Strache was quoted as saying the violence was “like Kristallnacht,” referring to the 1938 anti-Semitic riots across Germany and parts of Austria that left streets strewn with broken glass from the windows of Jewish-owned property and synagogues. Kristallnacht was an ominous sign of the Holocaust to follow.
“We are the new Jews,” Strache declared to other ball guests, according to Austrian media.
Strache associate Klaus Nittmann, meanwhile, was quoted as saying “whoever works for this ball immediately gets a Jew star pinned on him” – a reference to the yellow stars Jews were forced to wear under Nazi rule.
Austria’s Jewish community demanded that the state prosecutor investigate the comments and urged Strache to give up his parliamentary immunity from legal action.
Karl Oelligner of the opposition Green Party suggested that such comments can only come from someone who “has either lost his marbles or is trying to trivialize the horrors of Nazi rule.”
Hannes Rauch, whose centrist People’s Party is in the government coalition, called Strache’s words “an open slap in the face for all those who were victims of the criminal National Socialist regime.”
Freedom Party officials dismissed the criticism. Spokesman Harald Vilimsky spoke of “artificial and ridiculous outrage,“ adding that Strache only meant the denunciations of ball supporters and attacks on their property are reminiscent of ”the horrible reports about the sinister era of National Socialism.”
Strache, he said, did not intend to play down “the agony that was forced upon the Jews.”
Austria has moved from its postwar portrayal of being Nazi Germany‘s first victim to acknowledging that it was Hitler’s willing partner. Most young Austrians reject Nazi ideology and condemn the part their parents might have played in the Holocaust.
At the same time, the rightist-populist Freedom Party – whose supporters range from those disillusioned with more traditional parties to Islamophobes and Holocaust deniers – has become Austria’s second-strongest political force.
Although the annual ball regularly comes under criticism, its overlap this year with worldwide commemorations of the Holocaust had increased the pressure on organizers and attendees.
Because it was listed among other champagne-laced Viennese balls, an Austrian committee reporting to UNESCO, the U.N.’s culture organization, struck all the balls from its list of Austria’s noteworthy traditions earlier this month.
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Posted on February 1, 2012 at 12:44pmBeware the nazi and the jew ( communist ) they are both against our freedoms here in America. I’ve decerned that there are different types of jews. I back the hebrews, God‘s chosen people of old but I’m skeptical of these so called jews whom aren’t mentioned in the Old Testament. I believe that there are jews who are confused about whom they really are. There has been alot of spin from govts. and churches to get get others to take the bait. It is hard to understand that those that are against my Constitution, my religious freedoms, my country’s capitalist system, always undermining my existence and at the same time want my Country‘s blood and money to protect themselves are God’s chosen. Something is amiss !
Report Post »The Third Archon
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 2:41amYour analysis might have been reasonable…if you weren’t still stuck in a 19th-century racialist way of thinking.
Report Post »The Noodle Fish
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 4:58pmThat’s very interesting. My Austrian cousin just told me about this yesterday. According to her, this ball is a normal annual event, being held every 2nd (3rd?) Wednesday in April. It happened to be a complete coincidence on this year that it landed on the Holocaust Remembrance day. There is no maliciousness, and there is no malicious intent. It’s a a traditional-style ball held for Austrian youth.
A very normal, non-sexual way for students to meet other students, and experience the old custom of ballroom dancing.
I’m very disappointed with The Blaze for reporting this story in such a 1-sided manner. It’s the far left communist party who is protesting this in Austria, after all.
Report Post »The Noodle Fish
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 5:00pmExcuse me, I completely screwed up those facts. The ball is held on the last Friday in January.
Report Post »georgepatton
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 1:35pmExcuse you?
Report Post »So your defining (RIGHT WING=nazis)?
Well genius; you are ignorant.
Two questions: (1) what does the S in USSR represent?
anwser: SOCIALISTS
(2)what does nazi stand for?
anwser:National SOCIALISTS Party
BOTH ARE LEFT HARDCORE ORGANIZATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
tzion
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 7:49pmActually, I think USSR stands for United Soviet States of Russia. Your point still stands though. European right is American far left.
Report Post »The Third Archon
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 2:49amUmm…Nazis were not Lefitsts–Nazis MURDERED Leftists whenever they could, and Leftists for their part often returned the favor.
Report Post »dazsworld
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 12:01pmI‘m not a ’hater‘ or a ’troll’. I simply despise the hands-off attitude we have regarding the Jewish people. I know for a fact that somewhere in the Archives of the IAF there is a photo of my bare butt as I mooned a low-flying IAF jet in Beirut in 2005. I should have tattooed a American flag on my left cheek, prior to. OH well… spontaneity does have it’s fun. ;-)
Report Post »NICHOLAS.STL
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 11:40amI enjoyed this article. Good for them. Let them know you have blonde hair and blue eyes! D@mn its good to be on top! Come on 4th Reich!
Report Post »shogun459
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:36amThe old hatreds are surfacing like a corpse lost to quicksand.
That rot is born of envy looking for Wicker Man.
This time they will avoid the “oversights” or mistakes that caused the 3rd Reich to fail.
Check out the Egyptians with the Nazi salute and even the “Sieg Heil !”
“Arab Spring of peace” Go back in the news and see who warned of this very thing.
Report Post »tiredofprogressives
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:36amThis is why the USA still keeps servicemen there in Germany. Those idiots in charge of the government would allow the majority of people to elect Nazi’s to be in power.
Report Post »neoconenemy
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:26amOh my GOD!!! Did someone slight the Jews?? Send in 8th airborne immediately!!!!
Report Post »PatriotNAmerica
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:33amthat’s mean and anti-semitic! God loves the Jews more than everyone else.. They da apple. and dey da chosen.. You just envious and jealous that god didn’t choose you to rule the world!
stop the hate and get on board the jew worship train!! especially if you expect to get any jewish cash right? ;)
Report Post »shogun459
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:39amSelf named Enemy of New Concervatives,
Dont Feed the Troll
Report Post »tzion
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 11:02am@Shogun
Report Post »I’m pretty sure he is the troll.
PatriotNAmerica
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 11:18amArmed Patriot: You’re playing with fire. The ADL will come after you. They will leave your barren and fatherless.. The world is only big enough for one Victim and unfortunately you are not a chosen. Don’t dare go there.
Report Post »Armed Patriot
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 11:29amFalse America Patriot. Shut up stupid. You are nothing but a provocateur troll.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:19amThis European/German “far right” is of the Socialist kind… being Fascists… and on the American Scale is LEFTIST!
Report Post »Biddle
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:50amWho / what is Israel?
Report Post »BobtheMoron
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:11amThe EU is the 4th Reich. Economic domintion by Germany and the Sarkozy the leader of rge tritorus Vichy French surrendered without a fight, The French lost another war to the Germans.
Report Post »BobtheMoron
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:14amCorrections for the sausage fingered typing “the traitor”
Report Post »UBETHECHANGE
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 8:46amI stand with Israel and the Jewish people!
Report Post »Lateris
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 1:19pmAs do I. Go Texas!
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 8:29am“Austria has moved from its postwar portrayal of being Nazi Germany‘s first victim”
Report Post »Victim? All those Austrians Sieg Heiling in the streets sure didn’t look like victims to me. They welcomed Hitler as a son of Austria and their supreme leader with open arms.
PatriotNAmerica
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:28amDude, everyone welcomed him but the Russian Marxists, Jews, and Allies under the sway of Jewish propaganda! He spoke their lauguage. This may sound offensive and I really hate to even say it but isn‘t it just ashame to consider how deceived our GIs were back then under the Media’s propaganda? I mean back then trust for the Media was extremely high even though it was the same ole deviant Jewish puppet masters calling the shots back then just as they are the ones calling the shots today.
The poor Germans didn’t have a chance.. No one to tell their side in America. Same as in WW1. Fortunately today everyone knows and appreicates exactly how corrupt and wicked our Media is…
JFK said he had the stuff in him which legends were made.. lol Time magazine named him man of the year in the 30s. Certainly you can find one good thing to say about him right?
Quit watching all of Spielberg’s pathetic garbage and read some history man.. Be informed not duped!
Report Post »tzion
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:53amEveryone welcomed him, Traitor? How about the Danes, the ones who evacuated their entire Jewish population and sent them to Sweden? Or Poland, which fought against his invasion and later formed an underground resistance. Same goes for France. Sure Austria didn’t put up a fight but just about everyone else at least tried to. Well except for Switzerland. They saw a chance to get rich.
Report Post »By the way, for someone who claims to support the Constitution, you spend a lot of time worshiping at the feet of Totalitarian dictators.
Gonzo
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 11:06amSo, what part of my comment do you disagree with Patriot? Did I not just say that Austria welcomed Hitler, they were not a “vicitm’ of Hitler?
Report Post »Armed Patriot
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 11:22amPatriotNAmerica… WOW. Your are not a Patriot by anymeans. You are an Antisemetic jJew hater, distort history, and NO, HELL NO… I cant say one good thing about Heir Hitler. He was an maniacal dictator, mass murderer, and was responsible for 6 million dead Jews, 1 million dead Americans and a total of 50 million to over 70 million world wide. You are the sickest of the sick to see anything positive about Hitler and to demonize the Jew. You are nothing more than a reprehensible troll, a provocateur, a wolf in sheeps clothing. Everyone of your post spews your jew hating filth, your anti American rhetoric. Go back to MSNBC or the nobama/cass sunstien administration from where you hail, troll.
Report Post »Armed Patriot
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 11:30amPatriotNAmerica
TROLL ALERT!!!
Report Post »PatriotNAmerica
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 1:33pmGonzo: you were right. my bad.
Armed Patriot: I recommend books for you. You‘re obviously one of John Hagee’s illigitimates. Please do not procreate. If you already have call HHS for help.
I’ll give you no longer than 6 months to free yourself from the Jewish propaganda. After that you will be held accountable for your actions.
Report Post »Armed Patriot
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 4:13pmPatriotNAmerica… “Armed Patriot: I recommend books for you. You‘re obviously one of John Hagee’s illigitimates. Please do not procreate. If you already have call HHS for help. I’ll give you no longer than 6 months to free yourself from the Jewish propaganda. After that you will be held accountable for your actions.”
Hold me accountable now and bring it to me, you antisemitic POS. You think I will bow and surrender to trash like you??? Bring it, but be warned… We will not go quietly into the night, we have prepared. We are ready for your kind. We will stand against you. We will defeat you.
Gen 12:3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Report Post »PatriotNAmerica
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 5:45pmArmed Patriot: Also says to stone adulterers’ homosexuals and disobedient children in the OT twerp! Why not follow all the OT commandments you pathetic brain-dead hypocrite?
Please get some education son. It’s never too late. A mind is a horrible thing to waste.
Report Post »tzion
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 7:55pmSo TraitorNAmerica, “a mind is a horrible thing to waste” huh? Then why do you openly admit that you think 6 million dead Jews wasn’t enough? Hypocritical, hate-mongering, traitorous filth.
Report Post »LouC57
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 7:26amSmells like Soros.
Evil bastid.
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 6:31amAustria, Neo-Nazi’s and fringe right hatred of Jews… should be right up Ron Paul’s Libertarian Austrian economic anti-semetic and racist alley.
Okay Paul groupies… sing along with me.
Paul, Mises, Rothbard and Rockwell… anarchy and extreme anti-war zeolotry, Paul, Mises, Rothbard and Rockwell… anarchy and extreme anti-war zeolotry. Paul, Mises, Rothbard and Rockwell… anarchy and extreme anti-war zeolotry.
Report Post »RagingJudge
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:57am****.
Report Post »PatriotNAmerica
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:31amTIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 6:31am
Austria, Neo-Nazi’s and fringe right hatred of Jews… should be right up Ron Paul’s Libertarian Austrian economic anti-semetic and racist alley.
Wasn’t the guy who penned Austrian economics Jewish? So by following a Jew’s version of economics one becomes anti-Semitic? That’s really interesting. Some of you are beginning to sound like the boy who cried wolf too often or the race peddlers that scream racism repeatedly.. Stop it.
Report Post »Armed Patriot
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 11:33amPatriotNAmerica
TROLL ALERT!!!!
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 12:25pmPATRIOTINAMERICA. Obviously you haven‘t researched the folks I’ve mentioned and the historical basis for my claim regarding Austrian economics, Libertarianism, anti-Semetism, racism, extreme anti-war isolationism,and the players aside from Ron Paul. Do some research, then come back when you have something to add.
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 12:29pmARMED PATRIOT. Don’t shoot yourself in the foot, nor let the door slap you in the keester on your way out. Troll? You can’t do better than that? No, you probably can’t… my bad.
Report Post »philipzhao
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 1:28amNever again ?
Report Post »neoconenemy
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:27amNever again?? It never was!!!
Report Post »tzion
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 11:01amIf it never was, why did Evian happen? Simple question. Lies have no place here Enemy. At Nuremberg many Nazis defended their actions as having been legal under the Third Reich. If it was a lie to begin with why defend it? Where did the two story high mound of ash at Majdanik come from? The shoes and hair at Auschwitz?
Report Post »Armed Patriot
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 11:31amneoconenemy
TROLL ALERT!!!
Report Post »DividedWeFail
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 1:06amSick. Just plain sick.
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:19pmYep, it seems we will be seeing the rise of the Fourth Reich soon.
Report Post »Maxim Crux
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:26pmOh yeh…Germany is demanding that Greece hand over their soverienty right now. Check this out
2. Transfer of national budgetary sovereignty
Budget consolidation has to be put under a strict steering and control system. Given the disappointing compliance so far, Greece has to accept shifting budgetary sovereignty to the European level for a certain period of time. A budget commissioner has to be appointed by the Eurogroup with the task of ensuring budgetary control. He must have the power a) to implement a centralized reporting and surveillance system covering all major blocks of expenditure in the Greek budget, b) to veto decisions not in line with the budgetary targets set by the Troika and c) will be tasked to ensure compliance with the above mentioned rule to prioritize debt service.
http://media.ft.com/cms/853efee4-4918-11e1-88f0-00144feabdc0.pdf
Report Post »timej31
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 12:56amAlready? It’s so soon. Heck I can still remember the totaler krieg speech.
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