Gottfried Küssel, founder of VAPO, is an Austrian far right political activist who has been a leading figure in neo-Nazism and Holocaust denial since the 1970s. He was arrested in 1983 and imprisoned on charges of attempting to revive Nazism. During his absence Austrian neo-Nazism was led by his allies Gerhard Endres in Vienna and Jürgen Lipthay in Salzburg. Küssel's imprisonment was followed by a number of bombings carried out by neo-Nazi militants using home-made bombs as a protest against the sentence. In 1986 he established his own extremist movement the Volkstreuen Außerparlamentarischen Opposition (VAPO). In 2013 he was convicted of glorifying Nazism through a website and sentenced them to prison terms of up to nine years.
Volkstreuen außerparlamentarischen Opposition (VAPO)
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