A raid on a printing plant here and the arrest of three Viennese neo-Nazis produced evidence of an Austrian undercover Nazi group linked to the Ku Klux Klan and to an international fascist group with headquarters in Sweden, the Austrian police reported today.
Alfred Honkiss, owner of the printing plant, Herbert Drexler, a university student, and Miss Heidi Suessmayer, also a student, were charged with neo-Nazi activities. All have records of such activities, the police reported.
Large quantities of anti-Semitic material were seized in the raid. Some of it had been shipped here from the United States and Sweden. The police spokesman said some of the material was inscribed “Ku Klux Klan of America” and some was printed at Malmo, Sweden by the fascist “Social European Movement.” Other material bore the stamp of “The White Brotherhood,” which police said was a European branch of the KKK.
The Austrian underground group was a front for six outlawed Austrian Nazi groups whose members communicated by code. The neo-Nazis, alleged to head the Austrian front group, Leopold Windisch and Fred Borth, were arrested last month on charges of inciting public unrest. The front organization was termed by the police part of an international network of anti-Semitic groups.
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