The images also included “cynical and dehumanising slogans alluding to the gassing of humans”, Nachrichten added, and were posted on Facebook over a two year period.

When police searched the man’s house they also found clothes with Nazi symbols on, Austria’s The Local reports.

“It is not so much on the individual picture ... but what arises for an impression in the overall context,” said attorney Markus Neher.

The man was charged under Austria’s anti-Nazi Prohibition Act; it was passed in 1947, making it illegal to make or display statements which glorify the Nazi regime.

He apologised in court and was sentence to 18 months in jail, 15 months of which are suspended.