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En Garde! Challenge the WKR-Ball!
Against the Extreme Right Dancing Event in the Former Imperial Palace, the Hofburg
An annual event…
On January 29, 2010 the 57th annual Ball of the „Wiener
Korporationsring“ (WKR) will take place in the Hofburg, the former
imperial palace. Over twenty local „fraternities“* are organized within
the WKR, which fall into a political spectrum ranging from
„national-libertarian“, folk-German nationalist to openly extreme
right. The most well-known member of the WKR is at this point in time
most certainly the fraternity Olympia, whose „Good Old Boy“ Martin Graf
scandalously holds the office of third „Speaker of Parliament“. Olympia
demonstrates very clearly the function of German nationalist
fraternities as a place forging a bond between the FPÖ (Freedom Party
of Austria)** on the one hand and neo-nazism on the other. Thus you can
find members of Olympia representing the FPÖ in the local and national
parliaments as well as in the party leadership at the district and
state level. At the same time, Olympia has invited various neonazi
singers as well as the Holocaust-denier David Irving to their clubhouse
over the past several years. Besides this, Olympia continually makes
racist, anti-semitic, and NS-relativising statements.
Continued…