Local authorities in Mödling, Austria, have launched an investigation after a Kristallnacht commemoration ceremony was disrupted by the blasting reproduction of a speech by Adolf Hitler.
The ceremony, held at the former site of the town’s synagogue burned down during the November 1938 pogroms, was interrupted by a speech by Hitler being loudly broadcasted from a nearby residential building. The disruption lasted for about a minute and a half.
After the incident, the city of Mödling filed an official complaint. As the city councillor Stephan Schimanova attested, the recording was “extremely loud” and “there was a great deal of consternation. It was just sick.”
The suspect’s alleged neo-Nazi activity is under investigation by the police, who searched his home and confiscated “technical equipment.”
