The Austrian Ministry of Interior today outlawed the right-wing “Working Group for Politics” because it had invited a German anti-Semitic lawyer for a series of lectures despite an official ban. Interior Minister Otto Roesch said Manfred Roeder, who had published a booklet, “The Auschwitz Lie,” lectured to the right-wing group in several Austrian towns last month although he had been officially banned from entering Austria. The “Working Group for Politics,” headed by right-wing writer Konrad Windisch, invited Roeder despite the government ban. The Ministry, last month, banned a “German Christmas” program scheduled to be held by the group in Salzburg. Roesch said as a consequence, Roeder sent him a letter threatening him to charge him at a “war criminal trial.”
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.
