Austria to dissolve fraternity linked to far-right Freedom party

Move follows discovery of songbook mocking Holocaust and celebrating Nazi atrocities

Austria’s government is taking steps to dissolve a student fraternity with links to the far-right Freedom party (FPÖ) after the emergence of a songbook in which the group mocked victims of the Holocaust and celebrated Nazi atrocities.

The chancellor, Sebastian Kurz, said on Wednesday he would launch proceedings to dissolve the Burschenschaft Germania zu Wiener Neustadt fraternity, whose former vice-chairman Udo Landbauer ran as a candidate for the FPÖ at last weekend’s state elections in Lower Austria.

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