Austrian far-right lawmakers win defamation case against newspaper over hymn


FILE PHOTO: Norbert Nemeth of the Freedom Party (FPOe) listens during a news conference in Vienna, Austria, October 24, 2017. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger/File Photo

VIENNA (Reuters) - Three Austrian lawmakers from the far-right Freedom Party won a defamation case against newspaper Der Standard on Thursday over an article that said they attended a funeral where a Nazi song was sung, when in fact it could not be determined if it was.

Der Standard published a video from the funeral in Vienna in September of a 90-year-old member of a right-wing fraternity, including a song sung there that the paper described as an SS hymn while explaining it was originally from the 19th century and SS troops sang a version with slightly different lyrics.

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