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Austrian Chancellor Seeks Abolishment of Denazification Program

December 8, 1953
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Chancellor Julius Raab has asked the Allied Council to approve a number of measures designed to do away with the denazification program in Austria, it was reported here today in the wake of Allied approval of a two-year-old Austrian law to return certain political rights to ex-Nazis who were prisoners of war.

The report, in the semi-official Wiener Zeitung, said that the Chancellor had requested the Allied Council to approve bills which would close down the People’s Courts in Lower Austria and Vienna, where Nazi criminals are tried; amnesty Nazis implicated in various crimes; ### a freeze on the promotion of civil servants who were Nazis; and halt the program for seizing property confiscated by the Nazis.

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