AUSTRIA-HUNGARY/NAZI TOUR Vienna Academy of Fine Arts closes doors to Hungarians touring Nazi landmarks

Record ID: 144128

  • Title: AUSTRIA-HUNGARY/NAZI TOUR Vienna Academy of Fine Arts closes doors to Hungarians touring Nazi landmarks
  • Date: 13th August 2015
  • Summary: VIENNA, AUSTRIA (AUGUST 13, 2015) (REUTERS) ENTRANCE TO ACADEMY BUILDING WITH POSTERS, READING (Hungarian/English): "FASCISTS NOT WELCOME" AND GROUP OF ACTIVISTS ON STAIRS POSTER READING (Hungarian): "FASCISTS NOT WELCOME" GROUP OF ACTIVISTS WITH COVERED FACES AND RED FLAG ACADEMY BUILDING ACTIVISTS HOLDING POSTER READING (English): "SMASH FASCISM" (SOUNDBITE) (German) ANTI-FASCIST ACTIVIST WHO WISHED TO REMAIN ANONYMOUS, SAYING: "We are here to demonstrate against Blood and Honour. This is very clearly a Nazi group with clear Nazi structure, with a terrorist arm... So you can see, these are not some [right wing] 'concerned citizens', these are clearly Nazis who came here to honour Hitler, and we came here to stage an anti-fascist protest and deny space for Nazis." HUNGARIAN TOURIST BUS IN DISTANCE MOVING AWAY FROM CAMERA VARIOUS OF VICE-RECTOR OF VIENNA ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS, ANDREA B. BRAIDT TALKING TO REPORTERS IN FRONT OF ACADEMY (SOUNDBITE) (German) VICE-RECTOR OF VIENNA ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS, ANDREA B. BRAIDT, SAYING: "About a week ago we received information about this tour of Hungarian right wing extremists. We prepared, we closed the academy, we locked the main entrance. We published this information because we don't want to let this group in." POSTER READING (English): "FASCISTS NOT WELCOME" VARIOUS OF ANTI-FASCIST ACTIVISTS IN FRONT OF ACADEMY DOOR
  • Embargoed: 28th August 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Austria
  • Country: Austria
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA34ZX0P1F710EQOV5X2ILZNA3W
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Anti-fascist demonstrators gathered outside the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna on Thursday (August 13) after reports that a Hungarian branch of neo-Nazi group 'Blood & Honour' were planning to stop there on a trip of Third Reich sights.
    German media reported that the tour planned to visit Nazi history sights in Nuremberg, Munich and Braunau after leaving from Budapest on Thursday morning. Adolf Hitler was denied entry to the prestigious art academy twice when a budding artist in Austria.
    Protesters outside the Academy held up signs in Hungarian and English reading: "Fascists not welcome".
    "We are here to demonstrate against Blood and Honour. This is very clearly a Nazi group with clear Nazi structure, with a terrorist arm... So you can see, these are not some [right wing] 'concerned citizens', these are clearly Nazis who came here to honour Hitler, and we came here to stage an anti-fascist protest and deny space for Nazis," one protester who wished to remain anonymous said.
    The vice-rector of the Academy of Fine Arts, Andrea B. Braidt, said that they had closed the establishment to prevent entry to the group.
    "About a week ago we received information about this tour of Hungarian right wing extremists. We prepared, we closed the academy, we locked the main entrance. We published this information because we don't want to let this group in," she said.
    Germany banned the German branch of Blood and Honour in 2000 for neo-Nazi leanings.
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