Abbreviations such as SS (Schutzstaffel), NSDAP (Nazi Party), and HJ
(Hitler Jugend) will no longer be allowed, as well as combinations of
numbers that use simple substitution codes, where letters are
represented by numbers.
These include 88, which stands for Heil Hitler, 1919, the code for the
SS, as well as 74, the code for a pan-Germanic single nation state. All
are popular with the far-right.
Transport Minister Alois Stöger (SPÖ) said the decree is “an important signal against the far-right”.
The list of codes has been created with the support of the Mauthausen
Committee - and will be updated constantly. Combinations such as IS or
ISIS (Islamic State) are also forbidden.
The decree does not affect old personalized number plates - just new
ones. Personalised number plates are valid for 15 years and the owner
must reapply when they expire - at which point officials will be on the
lookout for right-wing codes.
More than half a million Austrians have a personalized license plate.
Just last week a cemetery plot owner in Linz was told to remove Nazi symbols from two tombstones after complaints from visitors to the cemetery.
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