Image shows head of Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (DOEW) Gerhard Baumgartner, 65, undated photo. He criticized a brochure written by historian Johannes Hofinger from the Salzburg City Archives for glorifying Nazis. Note: Photo is a screenshot from a video. (Newsflash)
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11 January 2023
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A historian has been accused of glorifying the Nazi regime in a new history of their brutal hold on power in Austria during World War II. Writer Johannes Hofinger apparently ignored executions by the SS and Gestapo and is said to have made the period of Nazi rule seem "trivial". Instead, he...