(ANSA) - BERLIN (ANSA-AP) - Austria's new chancellor says
prosecutors are investigating a student fraternity whose
songbook contains Nazi lyrics. Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said
Wednesday on Twitter that there should be "zero tolerance for
anti-Semitism, racism or praising Nazi tyranny."
His comments come after a report revealed a Freedom Party
candidate for state office, Udo Landbauer, was a member of the
fraternity with the songbook. Many have raised concerns about
Kurz's decision to form a new coalition government with the
nationalist, anti-migrant Freedom Party.
The book contains the line "step on the gas, you old Germans,
we will reach seven million" - an apparent reference to the 6
million Jews the Nazis killed in the Holocaust.
Landbauer says he hasn't ever heard such songs sung, and that
the book was published when he was 11. (ANSA-AP).
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