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Austrian Court Sentences Editor for Publishing Anti-semitic Article

July 10, 1957
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An Austrian court today sentenced Otto Braun, 25-year-old editor of the weekly “Nordische Rundschau” for having published an anti-Semitic article. He was sentenced to eight months in prison.

The article was condemned for having incited the Austrian people against the Jews as a nationality and against the Jewish religion. Braun has praised Hitler’s treatment of the Jews and actively sells Hitler’s “Mein Kampf.”

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