Austria party expels Nazi plaque official

Austria’s far-right Freedom Party said on Wednesday it had expelled a local party official for hoarding Nazi memorabilia, in embarrassing revelations less than three weeks before national elections. A local activist revealed that Martin Hochstoeger had hung a plaque commemorating Adolph Hitler’s 1938 annexation of Austria in a back room of his pharmacy in the town of Landeck, in Tyrol state.