'Nazi language of minister about asylum seekers'

vienna - The far-right Austrian Minister of Internal Affairs Herbert Kickl called upon the country's anger with a remark about 'concentrating on one place of asylum seekers'. That term, his critics call, is too closely linked to the Nazi term concentration camp.

Kickl rejects the accusations: he certainly did not want to provoke. The minister wants the asylum seekers to be placed in one place for the emergency services, he explained.

When he took office in mid-December, the minister said that he was pursuing a strict policy for the asylum seeker problem. He belongs to the new government of Austrian Prime Minister Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP).

The leader of his own party FPÖ, Hans-Christian Strache, has been caught several times in the past by a neo-Nazi paramilitary group. The FPÖ was founded after the Second World War by disappointed SS men.