Wow, i didn't know that. This is cool. So we should all expose the Vandy-Fans as Neo-Nazis. AWESOME. We can CRUSH them, and ruin their cute little hand sign because it's NAZI-based. I went and looked up some nazi greetings and found a german website which I then translated. (THE LAST PARAGRAPH IS THE BEST)
The history, as AUSTRIA came to the possession of the Strache photo, reads like a crime film. The only difference: It concerns a Reality story, the action is true no fiction, but 100 percent.
Ex-friend brings photo
A former Strache friend appeared Friday morning in the editorial staff of AUSTRIA. In his luggage: a Strache photo like it more awkward could not be. It points Strache in the end of the 80-s at a meeting of national students' societies in a situation with which he welcomes the then active right-wing extremist Franz Radl. Strache spreads in this picture three fingers of his right hand to the so-called "opposition greeting and daring greeting" with which themselves in the end of the 80-s traditionally the Austrian neo-Nazis and members of the so-called "VAPO" welcomed.
This and neo-Nazi greeting imported from Germany forbidden there was the registration number of the Austrian neo-Nazi scene. In Austria he is not punishable according to Ministry of the Interior after the present administration of justice (in Germany, however, forbidden). For both Austrian Freedom Party secretaries general Herbert Kickl and Harald Vilimsky this greeting is "a burschenschaftliche tradition". Read more: Daring greeting in Austria not punishable
FP hysteria around Strache photos
The Austrian Freedom Party ran Friday as a precaution against AUSTRIA amok and got involved in more and more contradictions. First both Austrian Freedom Party secretaries general Kickl and Vilimsky insulted AUSTRIA, so to speak, "preventively" as "extremely unserious. When then from 15 o'clock the contents of the Austria photos became known, the Austrian Freedom Party secretaries general stated without having seen generally the photo, besides, it concerns "that greeting which was used since 1961 by the South Tyrolean freedom-fighters. Read more: FP hysteria around Strache photos
Then in the evening the FP confusion was complete. In an other transmission the Austrian Freedom Party pulled back the assertion, it concerns with the Strache gesture a "traditional South Tirol greeting". It concerns a misunderstanding which one regrets.
Read more to the Austrian Freedom Party confusion
Gauleiter Strache
The former Strache friend still remembers well: We have called Heinz Christian on our booth always "gauleiter" he wanted to be demanded so and he has been also appealed thus.
This was in 1987. HC Strache was "a fellow" of the extremely right students' society "Vandalia". The "booth" was in the lane Hörl in the 9th district in Vienna.
The Strache friend of that time: There is no discussion we were then unambiguously neo-Nazis. We have worked for the radically right-wing Vapo Pickerl stuck, pamphlets distributed. We have greeted ourselves on the booth regularly with the Hitler's greeting, have had radical right-wing slogans and thoughts. And Strache was one of the most active he was known by all radically right-wing dimensions: Küssel, Radl, Thierry, Honsik he met them all.
Beer here?
The photo originated in the end of the eighties at a meeting of the Viennese corporation ring, the umbrella organisation of all German national students' societies...
At first sight for simple-minded observers the picture is absolutely harmless.
Strache stretches three fingers upwards thus as he wanted to order other three beers, although a bottle stands before him.
The Strache friend at that time who took a photo of the picture himself explains: The photo originated at the moment, as a Strache his passing friend Franz Radl, one of the then leading neo-Nazis, welcomed. Radl stretched three fingers to the neo-Nazi greeting as the first Strache answered the Nazi greeting completely just, also with three spread fingers. His friend besides clenches the fist with nothing but joy.
Really it concerns with three spread fingers at the end of the eighties usual greeting of the home neo-Nazi scene.
"Greeting is holy to us"
When Austria photographer Erich Reismann took a photo of the radically right-wing "Vapo" scene all around Küssel and Schimanek in 1988 for "Wiener" reports, the young neo-Nazis existed on it, with theirs as they called "opposition greeting" to be to become photographed. The leading neo-Nazi Gottfried Küssel then literally during the interview: We call this greeting the daring greeting, named after our right leader Michael Kühnen. Who always uses this greeting three spread finger, symbolises with the fact that he belongs to our disposition community. This greeting is holy to us. It is the registration number of our community only who uses this greeting, is one of us.
SOURCES:
Kühnengruß oder sechs Bier bei FPÖ-Parteitag? > Kleine Zeitung
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Erstes Foto von FPÖ-Chef Strache mit Neo-Nazi-Gruß
translated using Google Translate German to English