Kärntner Heimatdienst
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The Kärntner Heimatdienst (KHD) is a right-wing association of Carinthian organizations.
The KHD has a long tradition of aggressive anti-Slovenian (anti-Slavic, anti-semitic, anti-Communist) policies and also served as a platform for the (illegal) NSDAP in the First Austrian Republic. It was able to exert influence on the province's political parties during various "campaigns" such as those against bilingual traffic signposts (1972), minority census (1976), or abolition of bilingual primary education (1988).
The KHD claims a membership of 25,000, including some influential members of political parties.
The KHD is also a founding member of the Ulrichsberg Memorial association (Verein für die Heimkehrergedenkstätte Ulrichsberg) which organises an annual memorial festival of Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS veterans, held at the Ulrichsberg in Carinthia, that has become notorious for right-wing activism and propaganda.
