Police announced the arrest today of Albracht Alberth, the “fuehrer” of a neo-Nazi youth organization in the province of Carinthia.
Police previously had arrested three officials of the movement in a raid on Alberth apartment and confiscated a large collection of Nazi propaganda material but Alberti eluded them. Alberti, who held many high positions in the Nazi party, was arrested in 1945 but soon released, He became a leading member of the neo-Nazi Union Independent party.
A delegation representing the Federal Association of Austrian Youth Organizations today demanded that Minister of the Interior Josef Afritsch take legal action against the current neo-Nazi activity in Austria. At a ceremony here in which seven Austrian, organizations laid wreaths at a memorial for Nazi victims, speakers demanded that schoolteachers inform the youth about the Nazi crimes.
A group of prominent Austrian writers published a declaration of protest against “anti-Semitic provocations” with a promise to fight such incidents because they involved all religious, racial and national groups.
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