Jorg Haider is Dead

[Viking]

The exact quote, made in a debate in the Austrian parliament on bomb attacks on Romanies, was:

'the punishment camps of National Socialism'

To which he later said that he meant to say "concentration camps".

As usual, a big fuss made over something as small as a passing reference.

That puts it in a different light; though his selection of words more than hints at an underlying attitude.

EDIT: No wait..what the hell am I saying? The concentration camps were certainly not punishment camps. A punishment is what you get when you've done something "wrong"; and what the Jews did wrong was being Jews. There is of course the thing with relativity; but in the modern Western sense, a punishment camp is somewhere criminals are sent; not someone with the "wrong" ethnic background; which was what these camps were largely used for anyway. It so incredibly clearly hints toward the real opinions of this guy.