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Austria bans neo-Nazi secret codes on car registration plates.
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Austria is suppressed personalized license plates used by neo-Nazis, prohibiting less known with the far-right symbolism hidden codes.
Combinations of letters such as HJ or HL - designating the Hitler Youth and the Nazi - have long been banned on personalized plates Austria.
Now transport officials have released a list of more than 30 enigmatic codes that have been banned.
They include a combination of numbers such as 88, representing Heil Hitler.
The new legislation, which came into force on Thursday, also prohibits the use of the IS or ISIS on personalized license plates in order to prevent people who show their support for the group of the Islamic State.
He was forbidden to have clear Nazi license plates from personalized plates are sold in 1989, a spokesman for the Ministry of Transport of Austria told the BBC.
But we learned that the far-right scene moves away from the most obvious to the most hidden codes.
So we had to change the officials responsible law to consider whether someone can choose a certain license plate now know what codes are used by the far-right scene.
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1919 - meaning SS, S is the 19th letter of the alphabet.
88 - Heil Hitler, because of where H is in the alphabet.
Only new license plates will be affected by the change in the law.
Abbreviations now outlawed include FG, meaning Geburtstag Führer, which means the birthday of the leader, and WP for white power.
Numerical combinations have not been included, but now codes such as 18 - which means Adolf Hitler because of A and H are available in the alphabet - are now banned.
The new list was compiled in collaboration with the Mauthausen Committee, an organization representing former prisoners of the concentration camp officials say it is not exhaustive.
The Austrian Transport Minister Alois Stoeger, who lobbied for the change in the law, said the National Socialist ideology has no place in our society.
More than half a million Austrians now have personalized license plates, according to the Austrian public broadcaster ORF.
The move to Austria after similar efforts in Germany to take action against neo-Nazi symbols.
In Germany, the law says that the license plates must not offend public morality Each state has its own list of banned combinations, and some are stricter than others.
But attempts to introduce a federal solution, similar to that in Austria, have failed so far.
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