Army veterans offer school talks

Vienna - Veterans of Germany's Third Reich army, including a lawyer who campaigned against a ban on the Nazi party, have offered to give talks in Austrian schools about their experiences, the weekly magazine Profil reported yesterday. "Up until now only those who were in concentration camps have visited schools," Mr Ernst Kosmath, one of the organisers of the initiative, told the magazine. But, he said, hundreds of thousands of Austrians served in the army. "It is interesting for children to hear their experiences too," Mr Kosmath added.