New survey on the Holocaust finds many Austrians lack basic knowledge of the Nazi genocide.
FILE - In this file photo from May 2, 2013, a visitor looks at a poster of the former Nazi concentration camp of Mauthausen during a press preview in a new memorial room at the former camp in Mauthausen, Austria. The concentration camp was liberated by U.S. troops on May 5, 1945.
Claims Conference CEO Greg Schneider said the numbers were in line with the first two surveys done on knowledge in the United States and Canada, but were more surprising coming from Austria. Though it’s officially distanced itself from that past, rhetoric from party members continues to evoke the Nazi era. Just last week, the deputy mayor of Braunau am Inn — Adolf Hitler’s hometown — left the party after writing a poem comparing migrants to rats, similar to the way the Nazis characterized Jews.
Austrians were asked about the Freedom Party in the survey and were equally split, with 43% seeing it favorably and 43% unfavorably. Thirty-six percent said they considered parties like the Freedom Party patriotic, while 42% said such parties were nationalist and xenophobic. “Given the fact that approximately a third of the most culpable Holocaust criminals were Austrians, that says a lot about the Holocaust distortion in Austria and the reluctance to take any responsibility,” said Zuroff, who was not involved in the study, in a telephone interview from Jerusalem.
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