The District Attorney’s office in Innsbruck has suspended an investigation of Franz Hausberger, the mayor of the skiing resort of Mayrhofen in the Tyrol, who had been a member of the infamous First SS Infantry Brigade. Last year the Austrian Resistance Movement mailed a leaflet to all households in Mayrhofen, in which Hausberger was denounced for his Nazi past. Now the mayor has sued the organization for libel. The District Attorney contends that there is not sufficient evidence against Hausberger.
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