False Accusation Against Strache: Book is Being Recalled

The Berlin-based Verbrecher Verlag is recalling the book "Resistance Has No Form, Resistance Is the Form" by the Vienna Festival Weeks director Milo Rau, which was published in the spring. As reported online by the "Presse" on Monday, Rau claims in it that the former FPÖ leader and Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache sang a well-known SS song. The Festival Weeks confirm the situation to the APA but do not provide any further comment.

"Apologize for False Claim"

"Resistance Has No Form, Resistance Is the Form" is a collection of speeches and essays by the director. According to the newspaper report, the publisher, led by Kristine Listau and Jörg Sundermeier, recalled the book. In the Facebook post, it states verbatim: "In the book 'Resistance Has No Form, Resistance Is the Form' on page 100, we claim that Heinz-Christian Strache sang the SS song 'We Create the Seventh Million.' We retract this claim as untrue. We apologize for this false claim." The retraction is signed by the two publishers as well as by Milo Rau himself.

"I can't say more than what's in the retraction," said publisher Sundermeier in an interview with the "Presse." He did not want to comment on whether a legal procedure is already pending. "We are doing what we can and must. It is neither in the interest of Milo Rau nor ours to spread false claims. Therefore, we must apologize on this point." A new edition of the book in a corrected version is expected to be published in October, according to another post by the publisher.

(APA/Red)

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