Green Lantern
September 6th, 2007, 9:59:27 PM
Austria to charge 4 soldiers for Nazi salutes
VIENNA (Reuters) - Four Austrian soldiers face criminal charges for exchanging Hitler salutes in two videos that appeared on the Internet, Defence Minister Norbert Darabos said on Thursday.
Any display of Nazi propaganda or symbols is a crime in Austria, which took decades to acknowledge it was more a willing party than a victim of Nazi Germany's Third Reich.
In the army barracks incident captured by mobile-phone camera and posted on the video-sharing Web site YouTube, a soldier goose-steps past and stretches out his right arm in a Hitler salute. Another shouts, "Heil Hitler!"...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070906/wl_nm/austria_nazism_dc
VIENNA (Reuters) - Four Austrian soldiers face criminal charges for exchanging Hitler salutes in two videos that appeared on the Internet, Defence Minister Norbert Darabos said on Thursday.
Any display of Nazi propaganda or symbols is a crime in Austria, which took decades to acknowledge it was more a willing party than a victim of Nazi Germany's Third Reich.
In the army barracks incident captured by mobile-phone camera and posted on the video-sharing Web site YouTube, a soldier goose-steps past and stretches out his right arm in a Hitler salute. Another shouts, "Heil Hitler!"...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070906/wl_nm/austria_nazism_dc