(Not to be confused with how Australia’s Fascists got away with supporting the Third Reich.)

It is not at all surprising that until the 1960s the name Franz Murer wasn’t well-known in the highly selective consciousness of many Austrians about [Fascism] and the Holocaust. In the post-war years, old [Fascists] and outright war criminals were re-integrated into Austrian society.

With their crimes made to vanish into thin air, their victims dead or otherwise silenced, these criminals lived out their lives in an underserved peaceful and prosperous retirement, seeming to be Grossbauern like Murer, farmers or better “fat peasants.”

Almost no one could guess that only a few years earlier, SS officer F. Murer was more than instrumental in the eradication of Jewish existence in the ghetto in Vilnius. Eventually, though, his brutality and sadism caught up with him and he was put on trial.

By the time of the Austrian trial, Murer had spent a brief period of just five years incarcerated in the USSR for his war crimes of mass murder. Murer, as we pointed out, was returned to Austria in the political games of the Cold War.

Strangely, despite his conviction as a war criminal, Austrian prosecutors never filed charges against him. Perhaps, this was not so strange after all, because of the continuing old [Fascist] networks inside the Austrian judiciary system.

(Emphasis added.)

See also Nazism in Austria for a relatively brief overview of the subject. For a lengthier work (partly) about this subject, see The Haider Phenomenon in Austria.