Vienna:
A Holocaust survivors' group has filed a criminal complaint against a pastry maker in Lower Austria for baking cakes decorated with Nazi designs, prosecutors said.
The public prosecutors' office in Wiener Neustadt said yesterday it had received a complaint by the MKOe Mauthausen Committee against the bakery, Tortendesign, in the village of Maria Enzersdorf near Vienna, for offering customers cakes decorated with swastikas or a baby raising its right hand in a Nazi salute.
While the cakes are not actually put on display in the shop window, a catalogue containing photographs of the designs is made freely available to customers, MKOe said in a statement on its website.
The group's chairman Willi Mernyi said: "This is a particularly abhorrent example of how money is made from Nazi filth. We're going to file a criminal complaint."
Pastry chef Manfred Klaschka told ORF public television: "If someone orders it, I make it. I don't really think about it. Basically, it doesn't interest me what the customers do with the cakes. I have to make a living."
"This is exactly the sort of justification we heard all those decades ago. I didn't know anything, I didn't see anything. That doesn't concern me," said MKOe chairman Mernyi.
Austria bans neo-Nazi activities and the public display of Nazi symbols, as well as attempts to glorify the Nazi era and to deny the Holocaust.
A Holocaust survivors' group has filed a criminal complaint against a pastry maker in Lower Austria for baking cakes decorated with Nazi designs, prosecutors said.The public prosecutors' office in Wiener Neustadt said yesterday it had received a complaint by the MKOe Mauthausen Committee against the bakery, Tortendesign, in the village of Maria Enzersdorf near Vienna, for offering customers cakes decorated with swastikas or a baby raising its right hand in a Nazi salute.
While the cakes are not actually put on display in the shop window, a catalogue containing photographs of the designs is made freely available to customers, MKOe said in a statement on its website.
The group's chairman Willi Mernyi said: "This is a particularly abhorrent example of how money is made from Nazi filth. We're going to file a criminal complaint."
Pastry chef Manfred Klaschka told ORF public television: "If someone orders it, I make it. I don't really think about it. Basically, it doesn't interest me what the customers do with the cakes. I have to make a living."
"This is exactly the sort of justification we heard all those decades ago. I didn't know anything, I didn't see anything. That doesn't concern me," said MKOe chairman Mernyi.
Austria bans neo-Nazi activities and the public display of Nazi symbols, as well as attempts to glorify the Nazi era and to deny the Holocaust.
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