The T-shirt of the youth researcher Bernhard Heinzlmaier, who was hired by the State Secretary for Youth Affairs Claudia Plakolm (ÖVP), is currently causing a stir – and could spark the next turquoise-green dispute. Because on the black body should be visible runes, which were once used by Nazi organizations and are still used by right-wing extremists. The symbols are banned in Austria and the Greens now even want to take the matter to the National Council.
On Thursday, Plakolm and Heinzlmaier presented a new “Youth Report”, according to which Austria’s 16 to 29-year-olds have a remarkably close relationship with values that the People’s Party also likes to represent. Several studies were used for the report, we reported.
Swirl around T-shirt by Heinzlmaier
The day after, however, the t-shirt of youth researcher Heinzlmaier is more of a topic of conversation. Because on the left side of the black body were white characters that some social media users interpreted as “NS runes”. Others suggested it was the logo of Lower Austrian metal band Steinalt.
The commitment of Heinzlmaier, who as a columnist in a right-wing conservative online medium fantasizes about “control fantasies in the SPÖ kindergarten” and an “environment of the cultural left”, causes resentment among the Greens. “The fact that it should be the logo of a band does not alter the fact that NS organizations used these symbols and right-wing extremists still do today,” Olga Voglauer, secretary general of the Greens, writes on Twitter.
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A parliamentary question about pending orders from the Federal Chancellery will therefore be sent to Bernhard Heinzlmaier, according to Voglauer: “We find it very problematic if the State Secretary for Youth provides a stage for the game with far-right codes. She must resign herself to the question whether this’ normal’.”
The symbols, which can also be seen on Heinzlmaier’s T-shirt, were used by various Nazi organizations and are now banned in Austria. The Sig rune was therefore not only the symbol of the Hitlerjugend, but also, in two forms, of the SS. The Tywaz rune was a hallmark of a Nazi sub-organization, as were the so-called “Wolfsangels”. In any case, all symbols are prohibited in Austria.
Source: Krone
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