A group of Austrians of different political affiliations has demanded the banning of a series on the last days of Hitler published in a Vienna tabloid. In a letter to the government, the signers protested the publication of the series, “The Catacomb,” by Uwe Bahnsen and James O’Connell in the mass circulation paper “Kronenzeitung.”
They said the series minimized the inhuman regime of the Nazis and showed Hitler as a man “who was not so bad.” The personality of Hitler was completely falsified in the series, according to the group. The “Kronenzeitung,” which has a circulation of more than one million and is Austria’s biggest newspaper, last year interrupted a series on Jews in Austria after wide protests against its anti-Semitic orientation.
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