While in jail, an Austrian historian wrote a book that slams his country’s Holocaust restitution system Stephan Templ, who was sent to prison on controversial fraud charges, is accusing his country of re-validating Nazi racist taxes in flawed restitution reviews.
Austria accepted its Holocaust guilt. So why is its far right on the rise? Despite a push for education on the country's significant complicity in the genocide, its rising far right is poised to enter government — again.
Austria’s rising far right seen as proof of failure to address Nazi past A far-right party that is poised to win the presidential election reflects a perpetrator nation's failure to immunize its society from xenophobia.