Verbotsgesetz 1947

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Prohibition Act
Provisional State Government
Long title Federal Constitutional Law on the Prohibition of the NSDAP (Bundesverfassungsgesetz über das Verbot der NSDAP)
Citation	StGBl. Nr. 13/1945
Enacted by	Provisional State Government
Commenced	6 June 1945
Status: Amended

The Verbotsgesetz 1947 (Prohibition Act 1947), abbreviated VerbotsG, is an Austrian constitutional law originally passed on 8 May 1945 (Victory in Europe Day)^[1] and amended multiple times, most significantly in February 1947 and in 1992. It banned the Nazi Party and its subsidiaries and required former party members to register with local authorities. Individuals were also subject to criminal sanctions and banned from employment in positions of power.

In later decades, the law's provisions against propaganda came to be used against neo-Nazism with a focus on Holocaust denial as well as the deliberate belittlement of any Nazi atrocities. Because the law does not explicitly mention these categories, there was considerable disagreement between regional courts, leading to the 1992 amendment resolving those doubts.^[2]