In a joint broadcast, both the Mauthausen Committee and the documentation archive of the Austrian resistance criticize the possible appointment of the Freedom Party Walter Rosenkranz as President of the National Council.
He has been a member of the right-wing extremist fraternity “Libertas” for decades, which introduced its own “Aryan paragraph” in 1878. The “Libertas” continue to hold on to their ideas that endanger democracy.
In addition, the chairman of the Mauthausen Committee, Willi Mernyi, criticized Rosenkranz’s journalistic career. In the magazine “Aula”, for example, he praised the Nazi Attorney General Johann Stich as a “high achiever”. Among other things, Stich was responsible for the execution of 44 resistance fighters.
