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Heinz Fischer, GColIH (; born 9 October 1938) is the President of Austria. He took office on 8 July 2004 and was re-elected for a second and last term on 25 April 2010. Fischer previously served as Minister of Science from 1983 to 1987 and as President of the National Council of Austria from 1990 to 2002. A member of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ), he suspended his party membership for the duration of his Presidency.
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Then their organs were put in jars and displayed for research by the doctors accused of causing their deaths under the Nazis.Shutting the books on one of Vienna's darkest chapters, black-clad workers on Wednesday placed a small metal urn into the ground at the city's Central Cemetery. It contained what municipal officials say were the last known unburied remains of victims "treated to death" on the Austrian capital's psychiatric wards during the Hitler era.The Nazis called them "unworthy lives" — those deemed too sick, weak or handicapped to fit the Fuehrer's image of the master race.More than 70,000 were killed, gassed to death or otherwise murdered between 1939 and 1941. Public protests stopped the wholesale massacres then, but thousands more of those deemed inferior lost their lives at the hands of sadistic doctors and nurses until the end of the war.Of those, about ...A descendant of the Habsburgs is taking Austria to the European Court for Human Rights for not allowing him to run for president, his lawyer said Tuesday.Ulrich Habs...
VIENNA (AP) — Austria's president easily secured a second term Sunday, deflecting a challenge by a far-right politician who had criticized the country's anti-Nazi la...
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Austrian Far-Right Politician Killed in Car CrashSaturday, October 11, 2008Print APJoerg HaiderJoerg HaiderVIENNA, Austria — Austrian politician Joerg Haider, whose...
Deputy Admits Gay Affair With Far-Right Austrian Politician Before His Fatal CrashWednesday, October 22, 2008Print ReutersSept. 8, 2008: Joerg Haider (R) and his spo...
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Austria: 70 Years Since Hitler TakeoverWednesday, March 12, 2008By WILLIAM J. KOLE, Associated Press WriterE-Mail Print Share: Digg Facebook StumbleUponVIENNA, Austr...
The inaugural Winter Youth Olympic Games got underway on Friday with an opening ceremony featuring classic and modern dance, along with video flashbacks to 1964 and ...
VIENNA -- Austria's president was in free fall -- and no, it was not about a loss in popularity.President Heinz Fischer's office has released a video of the 73-year-...
VIENNA (AP) — Robert Tidmarsh's eyes light up when he talks about the sprawling park surrounding Schoenbrunn Palace, one of Austria's most famous landmarks — and his...
VIENNA (AP) — Rich countries must give more for the fight against AIDS or risk jeopardizing progress in battling the disease, participants at an international confer...
VIENNA (AP) — Robert Tidmarsh's eyes light up when he talks about the sprawling park surrounding Schoenbrunn Palace, one of Austria's most famous landmarks — and his...
Austria should stop detaining children and halt the deportations of well-integrated foreign families that are denied asylum, Amnesty International and three other gr...
World leaders grounded by a shutdown of Europe's airspace were forced to skip the funeral of Poland's president, although some European guests took to the roads to m...
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