Over 40 per cent of Austrians believe the Hitler era wasn’t ‘all bad’, according to the latest poll conducted by the Linz Market Institute.The survey was carried out ahead of the 75th anniversary of the country’s annexation by the Nazi Germany, the Anschluss, and included 502 people.Fifty-seven per cent of respondents believed that “there was nothing positive about the Hitler era”.However, 61 per cent of respondents indicated that they wanted a “strong leader” at the head of Austria.That was in fact more than in previous polls, the newspaper Der Standard reported. A similar survey in 2008 found just a fifth of Austrians could imagine having “a strong leader who does not have to worry about a parliament or elections.”Also, 54 per cent – most of them young and well-educated – were of the opinion that if there was no legislation prohibiting the neo-Nazi parties, they would succeed in elections.Older participants in the survey strictly opposed the idea, which, according to historians, is logical.”Its a normal process that topics are no longer considered hot after two or three generations,” Oliver Rathkolb at the University of Vienna told Der Standard.

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