Ananova:

Controversial far right politician Joerg Haider, who is spending almost £50,000 to have Nazi artworks removed from behind oak panelling and restored, is now trying to find a museum prepared to display them.

Haider, who is governor in Carinthia, announced in June that the frescos would be removed from the local parliament.

But it later emerged that this would involve not painting over the controversial artwork - but removing it and restoring it to its former glory so it could be put on display in a museum.

But none of the local museums have so far been prepared to take the works.

The frescoes were created by artist Switbert Lobisser (1878-1943) and are located in the plenary chamber. They were commissioned to glorify the Anschluss when Hitler's forces marched into Austria and annexed the country.

Haider said he wanted them removed so that the "parliament is rid of these symbols of National Socialism."

The painter's daughter Burgi Breiter said the frescos should have been left where they were behind the panels and the money put to better use.

She said: "The money would be better spent on cultural projects. What they are doing to put them on public display is madness."