Much as I despise this guy, I despise Austria's draconian laws even more.
This law was enacted while Austria was still under the control of the Allies.
Its easy to judge this law 60 years on.
You have to take into account the nature of the crime, and the time.
Germany and Austria were broken nations there cities devastated, millions dead, starvation in the cities and country side, four occupying powers and the shame and horror of the final solution hanging round there head.
They were the lepers of the world. David Irvine new what he was up to, as a Historian he new all about the history of this law, but like the holocaust it was a minor detail in his role as a self publicist.
Apparently his opinion is a terminal case, next stop euthanasia. (sarc I think)