Josef Gschwandegger has done nothing forbidden, and he “deeply” rejects the “incomprehensible crimes against humanity and atrocities of the ideology behind this book”. The FP top candidate for the local council elections on January 30 has nothing more to say, which is why he switched off his cell phone yesterday.
The words for a word rap, to which the “district papers” invited the blue list leader as well as all other city hall candidates, were less finely crafted, the answer was rather clumsy: “That must have been ‘Mein Kampf?'” he answered Wanted question about the book he last read. Because the answer sounded as if Hitler’s fortress tome was just normal reading, a storm of indignation broke out over Gschwandegger on social media. He would have had the opportunity to set things right. But when the local newspaper asked, the only thing that came to mind was: “I read ‘Mein Kampf’ a long time ago. I generally read very little, maybe one book a year.”
Then he turned the tables in accordance with the state party leadership. “False reports” had been spread about him, Gschwandegger, that “dirt was thrown again a week before an election in Lower Austria” in order to distract citizens from the “actual problems – keyword corona chaos”.
The other town hall politicians, headed by Mayor Werner Krammer (VP), vehemently contradicted a reversal of the victim role: “I’m sorry, Josef Gschwandegger: ??Mein Kampf? as the last book I read doesn’t work at all,” Krammer posted on Facebook, where the captain of the pirate list “FUFU”, Martin Dowalil, told the FP man: “Hopefully we don’t have to find ourselves in the same meeting room with you!” Vice Mayor Armin Bahr (SP) tried to quote Bruno Kreisky: “Learn S?? History!” “FUFU” top candidate and city councilor Dowalil spoke of a “stupid man” and a “boast” by Gschwandegger, which could be interpreted as signals to right-wing extremists. In any case, reading “Mein Kampf” is not punishable. Since 2016, there has been a version of the “Führer’s” book with enlightening historian comments.
Source: Nachrichten
