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Nazis Make Big Comeback In Europe After Last European To Remember WWII Dies

Counting on short memories, young Nazis rise to power spouting same racist, antisemitic, anti-immigrant shit as the old Nazis

Allan Ishac
3 min readOct 21, 2017

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Sebastian Kurz, the young leader of the far-right People’s Party in Austria, takes a salute cue from his countryman, Adolf Hitler. (Credit: www.jurnalaradean.ro)

Waiting respectfully for the last European who was alive during World War II to die, Austria’s new Nazi party immediately soared to power winning the national election last week.

This follows the fine showing in September of Alternative for Germany, the first party of ultra-right, ultra-fascists to take seats in Germany’s Parliament since the 1940's.

Heinz-Christian Strache, leader of Austria’s Freedom Party, has no plans to throw a freedom party for the country’s 100,000 Muslim refugees. (Credit: www.reuters.com)

Even more promising for the ascending Nazis in Austria, the country of Adolf Hitler’s birth, is the news that its victorious People’s Party (sounds neighborly enough) will likely form Austria’s new government in alliance with Heinz-Christian Strache’s Freedom Party (which also sounds like a friendly group devoted to democratic ideals, until you find out it was started by ex-Nazis in the 1950s).

The People’s Party leader, 31-year-old Sebastian Kurz, is a handsome…

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Allan Ishac

Author of The Mystic In The Mews (themysticinthemews.com). Satirist. Humor writer. Former advertising creative director. Visit me at allanishac.com.