“We are not Nazis”

The defendant’s tenor today is, “We are not Nazis, that was stupid joke”. Three men died making a confession, according to their defense attorney, even a remorseful one. The investigations reached back to 2011, there were also house searches. The first indictment is said to have used a Nazi exchange number for two cars until May 2018. Two letters symbolized his own initials, the number combination 88 behind it, according to prosecutor Marcus Neher, stood for two times the eighth letter of the alphabet and is used in the circles as an abbreviation for the greeting “Heil Hitler”.

“Anyone who understands the code knows what is meant,” Neher pointed out. The population reported that a local politician with a Nazi license plate was on the way. But the accused – he held a position in the liberal party at the time – had linked the number plate with his personal data. The criminal proceedings against her have since been diverted and she received a fine of 700 euros.

The investigators looked through the cell phone of the previously innocent defendant for further incriminating material. In 2017, on the occasion of Hitler’s birthday on April 20, a should have made comments in the family’s WhatsApp group. “I deeply regret it, I’m sorry,” he said to the presiding judge Gabriele Glatz. He had thought “nothing great”, “that was stupid fun”, and the wish-number was also just a joke. He was never interested in politics, even if he was the FPÖ chairman at the time, but only because no one else could be found in the place for the function.

The first defendant is also charged with hate speech. Regarding the allegation that in 2018 he posted a post on the Facebook page according to which Islam counted the most deaths compared to National Socialism and communism under Stalin and China, namely 300 million, and he thus Islam as He said: “I just shared it on Facebook, which from a later point of view was stupid.”

Santa Claus with swastika armband

His brother also pleaded guilty. He is said to have sent four messages in 2017 to WhatsApp or the group that positively portrayed National Socialism and its goals. One picture, for example, shows an unclothed woman’s body with a Reichsadler tattoo, another Santa Claus with a swastika armband and the Reichsadler on the cap with the comment. The accused said: “You think it’s funny if you send it on. The war total nonsense. We are neither Nazis nor xenophobic. “
The mother of the two heard the same thing. The innocent farmer should receive a WhatsApp message from a son on April 20, 2017, “Today is a national holiday. Sieg Heil “with three thumbs-up emojis symbolically commented.” I probably just skimmed it quickly. “We don’t mean that bad, that was just stupid, we have nothing to do with National Socialism she replied to a message from her son with “stupid foreigners”, she is sorry. “I am certainly not racist”

The uncle of the accused sons regretted today that he sent a photo with a cake decorated with a swastika to the group for Hitler’s birthday in 2017 and did not leave immediately at the celebration on April 20, 2020 in honor of Hitler’s birthday. A Hitler cake decorated with 88 and a Hitler wine were served, the table table was decorated with a swastika flag. The uncle can also be seen in a photo of the celebration – as well as an acquaintance who later incriminated him with this photo and apparently wanted to put pressure on him. The acquaintance is also accused, but not able to stand trial.