Socialist deputies in the Austrian Parliament have submitted a bill to remove political and economic handicaps placed on certain categories of former Nazis. The Vienna Council of the People’s Party, major partner with the Social Democrats in the coalition government has demanded invalidation of all anti-Nazi legislation.
The Socialist measure would restore to former Nazis civic rights government pensions and jobs with government bodies from which they had been discharged or barred by virtue of their Nazi background. It would grant amnesty to people who held high posts in the Nazi machinery but were not convicted of personal crimes. It would also restore to full citizenship former members of Nazi organizations who had received prison terms up to a maximum of two-years.
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