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.
JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century. Keep our journalism strong by joining us in supporting independent, award-winning reporting.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
