The Verbotsgesetz 1947 abbreviated VerbotsG, is an Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

n constitutional law

Constitutional law

Constitutional law is the body of law which defines the relationship of different entities within a state, namely, the executive, the legislature and the judiciary....

, which banned the Nazi Party and provided the legal framework for the process of denazification

Denazification

Denazification was an Allied initiative to rid German and Austrian society, culture, press, economy, judiciary, and politics of any remnants of the National Socialist ideology. It was carried out specifically by removing those involved from positions of influence and by disbanding or rendering...

 in Austria, as well as aiming to suppress any potential revival of Nazism

Neo-Nazism

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The law was amended in 1992 to prohibit denying or grossly minimizing the Holocaust

Holocaust denial

Holocaust denial is the act of denying the genocide of Jews in World War II, usually referred to as the Holocaust. The key claims of Holocaust denial are: the German Nazi government had no official policy or intention of exterminating Jews, Nazi authorities did not use extermination camps and gas...

or other Nazi war crimes. Previously, some courts had interpreted the prohibition on reviving Nazi ideology as prohibiting Holocaust denial, but since the law didn't explicitly prohibit such denials, there was considerable debate over the matter.