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-The End of Fritz

von Herbert Kuhner am 3. Januar 2018 um 16:22
Veröffentlicht in: Politics

The End of Fritz

“We will gag the impudent Jewish mouth.”
– Josef Goebbels

I discovered Kafka, Schnitzler and Zweig in my teens in the Fifties. These great writers took their place among the American, English and French writers that I was reading. As I was relearning German, I read more and more Austrian writers. I read German writers too, but the Austrians were my favorites.

I read their work, but I also read about their lives. That meant reading about tragic circumstances.

When I returned to Austria, I could not avoid being confronted with the reality of the past.
Egon Friedell sprang to his death from the balcony of a house across the street in Gentzgasse, where I live. I pass the spot every day.

Kafka and Schnitzler died before the Third Reich became a reality. Zweig lived to see that but couldn’t bear the reality of it and ended his life due to it. A while back I read about Fritz Grünbaum’s fate. I have seen old films of Fritz’s cabaret routines. They are a pleasure for the eyes and ears – and life affirming! Fritz was small and bald, but he had oodles of charm. He was simply a delight. He caught on immediately. Fritz had quite a life! He was a man everyone liked – except anti-Semites.

Fritz however was no softie. During a cabaret number in 1907, when an officer of the K-and- K army made an anti-Semitic remark, Fritz left the stage, went up to the officer and slapped him in the face. He was challenged to a duel in which he was wounded. That incident presaged things to come when there would be no opportunity for defense.

In 1938 Fritz did not manage to emigrate. He had spoofed the Nazis, and they had him on their list. When they marched in, he tried to flee to Czechoslovakia with his wife, but they were sent back at the border. It didn’t take long for the Gestapo to get him.

Life was fine for many Jews in Austria before March of that year. It was fine for my family too, but during that month life turned into Hell. We got out in July of 1939. And for those who did not get out, Hell only ended with death.

I have to say this. The orders came from above and were unmerciful. But those who carried them out often didn’t need orders. They killed and tormented at random. And their means were “creative.” They thought up the most barbarous and painful manner of torture and murder.

Here is what the SS did to Fritz: He was forced to lie on the floor and ordered to stick his tongue out while all those present wiped their boots on his mouth.

This was of course symbolic. That tongue and larynx had mocked Hitler and his Gang.

Fritz was shown no mercy. He was not killed on the spot. There was more excruciating suffering in store for him before his death. The utmost cruelty reserved for those whose opposition was public.

I have to say this. The orders came from above and were unmerciful. But those who carried them out often didn’t need orders. They killed and tormented at random. And their means were “creative.” They thought up the most barbarous and painful manner of torture and murder.

I say that the guilt of this deed can never be expunged. If there is a Hell and the monsters who committed it are in it, no Hell could ever cause more suffering Fritz Grünbaum underwent. And he was not the only one. He was one of multitudes

If there is a Paradise, an eternity of bliss could not make up for the suffering caused by such monstrous deeds.

There’s nothing more to say.

Das Ende von Fritz Grünbaum

„Einmal wird unsere Geduld zu Ende sein, und dann wird den Juden das freche
Lügenmaul gestopft werden.“
– Josef Goebbels

Ich entdeckte Kafka, Schnitzler und Zweig als Jugendlicher in den Fünfzigern in Trenton. Diese großen Schriftsteller habe ich genauso wie die großen amerikanischen, englischen und französischen sehr gern gelesen. Als ich in Amerika wieder Deutsch gelernt habe, habe ich mehr und mehr österreichische Autoren gelesen. Ich habe auch die Werke deutscher Schriftsteller gelesen, aber die österreichischen habe ich am liebsten gelesen.

Ich las ihre Werke, aber auch über ihr Leben – das hieß in erster Linie, auch von tragischen Umständen zu lesen.

Als ich nach Österreich zurückgekehrt war, habe ich die Konfrontation mit der Vergangenheit nicht vermeiden können. Sie war immer präsent.

1938, als die SA kam, ist Egon Friedell vom Balkon seiner Wohnung, die meiner heutigen gegenüberliegt, in den Tod gesprungen. Ich gehe jeden Tag an dieser Stelle vorbei.

Kafka und Schnitzler sind gestorben, bevor das Dritte Reich Realität geworden ist. Zweig ist ausgewandert, hat aber diese Realität nicht ertragen können: Er und seine Frau haben sich in der argentinischen Emigration das Leben genommen.

Fritz Grünbaum

Fritz Grünbaum war klein und kahlköpfig, aber er hatte eine Unmenge an Charme und bereitete Freude. Ich habe alte Filme mit Fritz Grünbaum als Kabarettisten gesehen. Sie sind ein Vergnügen für Augen und Ohren – und sie sind lebensbejahend. Der Erfolg ließ nicht lange auf sich warten. Er war ein Mann, den jeder gerngehabt hat, ausgenommen Antisemiten.

Fritz war kein Weichling. 1907, während eine Kabarettnummer, hat ein K. u. K.- Offizier Fritz mit mit antisemitischen Sprüchen beleidigt, worauf er von der Bühne gestiegen ist und den Offizier abgewatscht hat. Es folgte ein Duell, bei dem Fritz verwundet worden ist. In der Zukunft lagen Tage und Jahre ohne Verteidigungsmöglichkeiten.

Er war 1938 in Wien, als Österreich zur Ostmark geworden ist. Bis dahin hatte Fritz ein tolles Leben, aber das war jetzt für immer vorbei.

Vor dem März 1938 war das Leben in Österreich für viele Juden angenehm – auch für meine Familie. Alles hat sich über Nacht geändert. Auf einmal war es die Hölle. Meine Eltern verließen 1939 die Ostmark. Für die, die nicht auswandern wollten oder konnten, führte diese Hölle in den Tod.

Fritz hat sich über die Nazis lustig gemacht und stand daher ganz oben auf ihrer Liste. Er hat noch versucht, mit seiner Frau in die Tschechoslowakei zu flüchten, aber die beiden sind an der Grenze zurückgeschickt worden.

Die Gestapo hat ihn schnell geschnappt.

Ich muß es sagen: Die Befehle kamen von oben und waren unbarmherzig. Aber jene, die sie ausführten, brauchten oft gar keine Befehle. Sie töteten und folterten selbständig, und ihre Methoden waren oft „kreativ“.

Für Fritz gab es kein Erbarmen. Er wurde nicht sofort getötet – vor seinem Tod hat er noch qualvoll zu leiden gehabt. Die äußerste Grausamkeit gab es für jene, die ihre Gegnerschaft öffentlich zeigten.

Die SS zwang Fritz Grünbaum, sich auf den Boden zu legen, er mußte seine Zunge herausstrecken, und alle wischten ihre Stiefel daran ab.

Dies war symbolisch – diese Zunge hatte Hitler und seine Bande verspottet.

Wenn es die Hölle gibt und sich die Monstren von damals dort aufhalten, so kann doch keine Hölle das Leiden übertreffen, das Fritz ertragen mußte.

Ich meine, daß die Schuld für solche Taten nie gesühnt werden kann. Und er war nicht der einzige, er war einer von vielen. Und wenn es das Paradies gibt, so kann nicht einmal ewige Seligkeit ein Ausgleich für solche Leiden sein.

Mehr gibt es nicht zu sagen.

Fritz Löhner-Beda

from „En Route with Herbert Kuhner“ Film by Fritz Kleibel

 

Fritz und die Bananen

Du hast das Lied
hundertmal gehört:
Ausgerechnet Bananen.
Kannst du dir die Zwanzigerjahre vorstellen
ohne Bananen?

Die gehören dazu
wie der Jazz
und der Bubikopf.

Frank Silver schrieb die Musik
und Irving Cohn den Liedtext.
Die deutsche Fassung
kam aus der Feder
eines österreichischen Multitalents,
das so wienerisch war,
wie man wienerischer nicht sein kann.

Fritz Löhner-Beda
war nie um einen Text verlegen.
Bananen schüttelte er 1923
aus dem Ärmel.

Er schrieb auch das Libretto für
Lehárs Land des Lächelns.

Fritz war zuversichtlich
und konnte nicht glauben,
dass sich alles so entwickeln würde,
wie es dann tatsächlich kam,
als Österreich 1938 zur Ostmark wurde.

Immerhin, überall wo er ging,
hörte er seine Liedertexte
gesungen oder gesummt.

Doch Fritz hat die Lage
falsch eingeschätzt.
Er ist mit dem ersten Transport
nach Dachau gekommen.

Als er nach Buchenwald verlegt wurde,
setzte sich seine Karriere
hinter Stacheldraht fort.

Zusammen mit Hermann Leopoldi
schrieb er das Buchenwald-Lied.

Dieses Lied ist entstanden
auf Befehl des Kommandanten
und ist von den Insassen
bei ihrer Sklavenarbeit gesungen worden.

Leopoldis Familie und Freunde
haben ihn ,rausgekauft’,
und er ging nach New York,
wo er seine Lieder
in Emigrantencafés spielte und sang.

Fritz aber blieb, wo er war,
ohne die Hoffnung aufzugeben.
Immerhin würde sein Freund und Kollege
Franz Lehár sich für ihn einsetzen.

Das Land des Lächelns
war die Festaufführung
an der Wiener Staatsoper zur Feier
von Lehárs siebzigstem Geburtstag
im April 1940.
Und Fritz wartete.

Lehár wurde gefeiert,
aber sein Librettist
fehlte auf den Plakaten
und im Programm.

Fritz hat vergeblich gewartet
in Buchenwald.

Später ist er verlegt worden –
nach Auschwitz.

Als der Zug dort ankam,
hörte er sein Lied
Oh, Donna Clara.

Das Lagerorchester
spielte diesen melancholischen Tango,
um die Neuankömmlinge
„willkommen zu heißen”.

Donna Clara war zur „Kennmelodie”
von Auschwitz geworden.

Die Lieder von Fritz Beda
sind ihm gefolgt,
wo immer er hinging.

Im Dezember 1942
ist Donna Clara
sein Abschiedslied geworden.

 

 

Donna Clara

When lovers become lovers,
there’s always a song
that acts as a musical background
and becomes their song.

When they hear it
years later,
it gives them a feeling
of nostalgia and longing

There’s a beautiful song
that became such a song
for lovers

Oh, Donna Clara
is a song of 1930
that provided joy for many,
and it did so innocently
for a decade.

The composer is a Pole,
whose name is a tongue twister
for those who speak English.
The German lyrics are by Fritz Beda,
an Austrian librettist and poet,
who shook them out of his sleeve.
The lyrics for Yes, We Have No Bananas
also came from that prolific sleeve.

After a decade, Donna Clara
was abused and ruined.

That doleful melancholy melody
became the musical logo
for the end of the line
in Poland till the mid-Forties.

The inmate orchestra played it
for the new arrivals.

It was what they heard –
among other sounds –
when boxcar doors
were flung open.

Fritz Beda did not know,
when he wrote the lyrics,
that he was writing
his own death dirge,
as well as a dirge for others.

The strains of Oh, Donna Clara
were the concluding music
for multitudes.

Donna Clara was used
as the theme song of Auschwitz.

It is a tune that will hound anyone
whose life was not expunged
at that location
till the end of his days.

Much art and literature
was destroyed in the Third Reich.
Donna Clara as a tune survived.

It is still played
and is as enchanting as ever –
for some –
others cannot bear to hear it.

Through no fault of its creators
or its interpreters,
Oh, Donna Clara
has been stained forever.

Oh, Donna Clara (Tango Milonga)
Music by Jerzy Petersburski
Original German Lyrics by Fritz Beda-Löhner
English Lyrics by Irving Caesar

 

Donna Clara

Wenn zwei sich verlieben,
gibt es immer ein Lied
als musikalischen Hintergrund,
und das wird dann zu „ihrem” Lied.

Wenn sie es hören,
Jahre später,
kommt die Erinnerung
und die Sehnsucht.
Es gibt ein schönes Lied,
das solch ein Lied
für Verliebte wurde.

Oh, Donna Clara,
ein Lied von 1930,
hat vielen Freude gemacht
für ein Jahrzehnt.

Der Komponist ein Pole,
sein Name ein Zungenbrecher.
Deutscher Text von Fritz Beda,
einem österreichischen Librettisten und Dichter,
der auch für Ausgerechnet Bananen
verantwortlich war.

Ein Jahrzehnt später
war Donna Clara missbraucht und ruiniert.

Jene traurig-melancholische Weise
war zum musikalischen Logo geworden,
am Ende der Reise in Polen,
bis in die Mitte der Vierzigerjahre.

Das Lagerorchester spielte das Lied
für die Neuankömmlinge.

Das hörten sie –
nebst anderen Tönen –
wenn die Viehwaggons geöffnet wurden.

Als Fritz Beda den Text schrieb,
ahnte er nicht, dass er ein Totenlied verfasst hatte,
für sich und andere.

Die Weise von Oh, Donna Clara
war für Unzählige der Schlussakkord.

Donna Clara ist
die Kennmelodie von Auschwitz geworden.

Diese Melodie wird jeden,
dessen Leben nicht ausgelöscht wurde
an diesem Ort,
verfolgen bis ans Ende seiner Tage.

Vieles an Kunst wurde zerstört
im Dritten Reich,
Donna Clara hat überlebt
und wird noch immer gespielt
und ist so bezaubernd wie eh und je –
für einige –
andere können es nicht ertragen.

Oh, Donna Clara ist auf ewig –
ohne Schuld seiner Schöpfer oder Interpreten –
gebrandmarkt.

Oh, Donna Clara (Tango Milonga)
Musik von Jerzy Petersburski
Original deutscher Text von Fritz Beda-Löhner
Englischer Text von Irving Caesar

-Herbert Kuhner

 1930 gab Petersburski mit seinem Orchester ein Konzert in Wien, bei dem er unter anderem seine Tango Milonga aufführte. Daraufhin erwarb der Wiener Bohême Verlag die Aufführungsrechte mit der Vereinbarung, dass der Titel geändert werden darf, und beauftragte Fritz Löhner-Beda mit der Erstellung eines deutschen Textes. Unter seinem Titel Oh, Donna Clara wurde das Stück danach weltweit bekannt. Bereits am 31. März 1930 wurde das Stück unter dem neuen Titel durch das Jazz-Orchester John Morris mit Alfred Behrens als Sänger auf Schallplatte eingespielt. Eine englische Version erschien im November 1930 in London, gesungen von Georges Metaxa mit Ray Noble & his New Mayfair Orchestra; der englische Text von Irving Caesar und Jimmy Kennedy folgte weitgehend dem deutschen. (Quelle:Wikipedia)

-Dagmar Koller, Honorary Patron of „Power4me“ (AAO)

von Herbert Kuhner am 31. Dezember 2017 um 16:00
Veröffentlicht in: Politics, Text

Dagmar Koller, Honorary Patron of „Power4me“
Concerning the AAO Commune

Dagmar Koller

“Then my husband (Helmut Zilk), who was the mayor, informed me and I went out there to take a look.

And I know Otto Mühl very well, because he lives in Portugal, and I visited him often. And I brought his small children dolls and Barbie dolls, because they didn’t have anything. They had absolutely nothing in Portugal“.

„Yes, he was a hero but for all the unstable people who went there. He was a god for them. I saw that the women were happy … And that’s what’s so terrible. I am the patron of an organization against sexual abuse (Power4me). I am opposed to sexual abuse and fight against it“.

„But when I heard about what happened there, I thought that I should never mention the word Mühl ever again. But you have to realize that there’s another side to it… the women who were part of it, had given everything – their complete finances and all that – they were happy there and you can see the joyful faces of the small children. Anyone who dares to abuse a small child should really be excluded from society. Well if that’s really happening, those who went to him, were really worthless. I am very radical about that. Why didn’t the politicians realize what was going on there? (That’s a question one can no longer pose to Helmut Zilk. He left us on October of 2008.)

click on picture for more  information on „happy women having fun“ . . .

Why didn’t any public person put a stop to it? What about the politics of the time? – But I still believe that the women who participated were happy. But if you observe him now, you see that those members of the group who remained with him, they are having fun. I would like to be a part of that…something’s happening there.”[1]

It stood to reason that a man who had publicly copulated while wallowing in excrement,[2] and who had whipped a man bloody in the aula of the university[3] was suited to be the guardian of children in a commune. There he reigned for almost two decades under the aegis of the highest state dignitaries while official funding flowed. (Indeed something was happening there.)

Miss Koller certainly hit the nail on the head about the politicians! Among the politicians who supported the Commune are Theodor Kery, Hilde Hawlicek, Karl Blecha and Helmut Zilk.[4]

 

The Man with “a Big Heart”

Bishop Kurt Krenn and Bishop Andreas Laun are convinced that Groer was innocent, as was the late Helmut Zilk, a former Mayor of Vienna.

Groer (l), Zilk (r)

Zilk and Dagmar Koller had a Catholic wedding presided over by Groer on June 23, 1990. The couple had previously married in a civil ceremony in 1978.

Zilk and Koller visited the Cardinal annually on Christmas and on their wedding anniversary. Zilk: “I consider the Cardinal to have been the victim of a calumnious smear campaign. I am not a ‘mackerel-snatcher,’ but the Church   means a great deal to me. I have a high opinion of the Cardinal. He has a big heart.” [5]

 

 

 

Statement by the Austrian Bishops Council of October 13. 2004[6]

“We have come to the conclusion that the accusations against Bishop Cardinal Hans Hermann Groer are basically justified.”

DOWNLOAD the german translation/Deutsche Fassung herunterladen:

Dagmar Koller Schirmherren Power 4Me und die AAO Kommune

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[1] Barbara Stöckl, ORF (Austrian TV, April 11,2013, 11 p.m..
[2] Peter Weibel, Valie Export, eds.: Wien: Bildkompendium Wiener Aktionismus und Film, Kohlkunst Verlag, Frankfurt, 1970. p. 75-78.
[3] Transparent Spezial, ORF, May 8, 1996, description by Peter Weibel.
[4] Andreas Schlothauer: Die Diktatur der freien Sexualität, p. 139-141.
[5] Thomas Hofer Profil, Dec. 11, 2,000, Vienna, p. 50.
[6] cardinalrating.com/cardinal

-Gerhard Rühm, ein letzter Universalkünstler im „Kunstforum Wien“

von Herbert Kuhner am 24. Dezember 2017 um 11:06
Veröffentlicht in: Allgemein

Gerhard Rühm. 4.10.2017 – 28.1.2018. Das Kunstforum Wien zeigt mit Gerhard Rühm im Herbst 2017 einen der letzten Universalkünstler. Als Komponist, Pianist, Performer, Literat und bildender Künstler war der 1930 in Wien geborene und heute in Köln lebende Gerhard Rühm ein Grenzgänger zwischen den einzelnen …

Oswald Wiener: „Es war mir zum Beispiel auch nicht ganz einfach, meinen Urin zu trinken oder meine Scheiße zu löffeln … Lange vor dem Aktionismus haben Rühm und der Bayer geschrieben: Scheißen und Brunzen sind Kunsten.“[1]

Oswald Wiener: “It was not easy to drink my urine and eat my feces….

Long before Actionism, Rühm and Bayer wrote:

‘Defecation and urination are art.’”[2]

Oswald Wiener: „Wir haben schon daran gedacht, Leute umzubringen, als Kunstwerk oder so – wenn das radikal ist. Aber es ist nicht geschehen. Bayer, Achleitner, Rühm und ich haben uns zwei, drei Jahre lang fast täglich zu intensivieren Diskussionen getroffen.“[3]

 Oswald Wiener:“We thought about killing people as a work of art, or that sort of thing – if that is radical. But it did not happen. Bayer, Achleitner, Rühm and I met for intensive discussions on an almost daily basis for two or three years.”[4]

Bei einer Ausstellung der Wiener Gruppe im Museumsquartier 1998 wurden mißgebildete Säuglinge in Photokollagen von Gerhard Rühm verulkt. Eine Kollage, zeigt ein Photo eines weiblichen Säugling mit gespreizten Beinen, daneben eine Zeichnung die einen irregierten Penis darstellt.[5]

As part of an exhibit of the Vienna Group in the Museum Quarter in 1998 of photo collages of malformed infants by Gerhard Rühm. One collage shows a female infant and a tumescent male penis.[6]

Gerhard Rühm | Ausstellungen | Kunstforum Wien – Bank Austria …

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[1] Wiener Sonderdruck, „Wiener Aktionismus“, Friedrich Geyerhofer, „Gespräch mit Oswald Wiener“, 1981, S. 58.
[2] Oswald Wiener interviewed by Friedrich Geyerhofer, Wiener Sonderdruck, Wiener Aktionismus, 1981, p. 58.
[3] Oswald Wiener: “Über Kunst, Selbstbeobachtung und Automatentheorie: Ein Gespräch mit Stan Lafleur; Textauszug aus: Eckhard Hammel, Hrsg., Synthetische Welten. Kunst Künstlichkeit und Kommunikationsmedien, Essen: Verlag die Blaue Eule, 1996, S. 199-213.
[4] Oswald Wiener: „Über Kunst und Automatentheorie: Ein Gespräch mit Stan Lafleur“; Textauszug aus: Eckhard Hammel, Hrsg., Synthetische Welten. Kunst, Künstlichkeit und Kommunikationsmedien, Essen, Verlag der Blaue Eule, 1996, p. 199-213.
[5] Die Wiener Gruppe, Kunsthalle, Museumsquartier, Nov. 13 – Feb. 21. 1999.
[6] Die Wiener Gruppe, Kunsthalle, Museumsquartier, Nov. 13 – Feb. 21, 1999.

-Politicians Have Their Say

von Herbert Kuhner am 22. Dezember 2017 um 10:47
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Politicians Have Their Say

“You’ll find people in Gurk, who are either Socialists or Conservatives,
who in certain situations may say that Hitler should be here now,
but that doesn’t mean that they are Nazis. [1]
– Karl Felsberger Deputy-Mayor of Gurk, Carinthia

„Austrians may have rejoiced in 1938,
but they welcomed annexation to the Reich,
not National Socialism.“
– Josef Ratzenböck, Conservative Governor of Upper Austria

 

The Ladies Have Their Say

My poem about the Führer: the product of an innocently glowing heart.
– Gertrud Fusennegger, Austrian author, May 13, 1993

The one thing about the Nazis that I liked
is that they had the best laws for the protection of animals.
– Edith Klinger, Austrian columnist on animal affairs

“There was a dangerous, demented politician who led the German nation on the path to ruin,
we’re all aware of that, but there were also positive values such as children,
mothers and families and sticking together, and those things were done away with..
.there were also Autobahns built, and we drive on them.”
– Eva Herman, German “talkmistress“ in September 2007

“I liked and admired Germany. I could not judge the government since I was completely apolitical.
When I received my first invitation to a reception by Hitler, my only thought was what should I wear?”
– Marika Rökk: A Heart with Paprika; Kurier, December 12, 2010.
Marika was dancer in films of the Thirties who made up for a lack grace with boundless energy.

“I can’t judge how it was with Hitler in all other areas.
I can only judge that he was interested in my doing in test flights.
I was deeply astonished about his questions and his interest.”
– Hanna Reitsch, pilot, interview in English, 1976
(Hanna’s English translated into English:
“I don’t know about other aspects;
I only know that Hitler endorsed my test flights.
His questions and interest a surprised me.”)

“There was a dangerous, demented politician
who led the German nation on the path to ruin,
we’re all aware of that, but there were also positive values
such as children, mothers and families and sticking together,
and those things were done away with…
there were also Autobahns built, and we drive on them.”
– Eva Herman, German-TV “talk-mistress“in September 2007

Yes, the Nazis promoted motherhood and Arian mothers were coddled.
(Non-Arian mothers experienced different treatment.)

Sons were needed for the military and daughters were needed to bear more military men
as well as daughters who were to become the mothers of the military men of the future.

So it went, dear Eva and so it goes.
Now we have women whose aim is a career like yours,
rather than mere parturition.

Ah, those good old days when men were men and women were women
and the only problems woman had were the problems of the maternity ward and the nursery!

 

Things Weren’t All Bad in Days Gone By

The one thing about the Nazis that I liked
is that they had the best laws for the protection of animals.
– Edith Klinger, Austrian columnist on animal affairs

Don’t quibble! Things may have been bad in days gone by,
but they weren’t all bad. Look, the Nazis were nice to animals!
That’s a good thing, isn’t it?

And there are others aspects. If the Führer hadn’t annexed Austria,
half of the country would probably still be driving on the left-hand side of the road.

 

Konrad Lorenz and the Geese

Third-Reich theoretician Konrad Lorenz
had grey geese follow him wherever he went.
He was especially enthralled by the goose step.

 

Wolfgang Schüssel:
Victim not Perpetrator!

Question: Does Austria consider itself as a perpetrator or victim 60 years after the war?
Wolfgang Schüssel: I believe that this question has been decided.
The country (Austria) was a victim of aggression, specifically a military aggression.
That was proven in the night after the occupation when thousands were arrested.
If the Nazi leadership thought that all of Austria was cheering, these arrests
would not have been carried out. The entire political elite was de facto cancelled out.
There was resistance in all political groups. The allies recognized this…
I will never permit Austria not be viewed as a victim.

 

Definitions

Adolf Hitler had Ernst Röhm and his SA-henchman done away with in June of ‘34.
Röhm was Hitler’s adversary, but he was anything but an anti-Nazi.
Which goes to show that birds of a feather don’t always flock together.

That same year, Hitler ordered the murder of Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss.
Dollfuss was an anti-Nazi, but not an anti-fascist.

Stalin was an anti-fascist, but he was not anti-totalitarian.
It is essential to know what one favors as well as what one opposes.

When Josef Goebbels publicized the Soviet massacre of Polish officers in Katyn in 1941,
he did so because it fit into his concept. We know that he was not opposed to massacres,
for the murders he approved of were million-fold.

Gerd Bacher: “The Waldheim-story is a Dreyfus Affair with inverted implications.” [2] “There is no freedom without personal discipline. A dictatorship provides convenient, but short-termed protection against base instincts. You can choose.“[3]

Hans Dichand; “We who experienced war and captivity in Soviet prisoner of war camps do want revenge. But we vigorously oppose the satanic, collective slander that the soldiers of the Second World War were criminals. We don’t want to take the truth to our graves with us. Our descendants, our daughters and sons should be able to stand up for us if we are continued to be condemned as inhuman. Winners are bad judges and the history is also the history the history of falsehoods.[4]

“Seamen who had befriended him (Hans Dichand) offered him an Italian uniform. (for his German one). He refused. It was inconceivable for him to flee into peacetime disguised as an Italian.”[5]

(That uniform represented a war of conquest, a scorched earth policy and countless abattoirs and charnel houses.)

Dichand: “You’d think that after such a long time, bygones should be bygones internationally.[6]

 

Otto Mauer, Caretaker of Artists’ Souls

In the Nineteen-Fifties Monsignor Otto Mauer, was instrumental in introducing modern art to post-war Austria. He founded the “Galerie St. Stephan” in Vienna and promoted such avant-garde artists as Wolfgang Hollegha, Josef Mikl und Markus Prachensky.
However, artists came on the scene, whose work transcended theirs in sensationalism. Rather than using such materials as canvass, wood and stone, they used the human body, its fluids and secretions. These pioneers worked individually and as a group under the name of the Vienna Actionists, and Mauer concentrated his efforts on promoting them. With his backing, they set about conquering the International Art World, and indeed the trend has spread like wildfire.
Luminaries of the movement are Otto Mühl, Hermann Nitsch, Günter Brus, Peter Weibel, Valie Export and Rudolf Schwarzkogler.
The motto épater le bourgeois was replaced by emmerder le monde. Public sado-masochism and brutality were the means.
Here is background material:

Monsignore Otto Mauer, Gründer der Galerie nächst St. Stephan. Photographie, 1965.

After the war, Otto Mauer along with Bishop Alois Hudal, who was located at the Vatican, was a member of the Vatican Ratline and aided escaping Nazis, as well as those who remained in Austria. Among Mauer’s protégés was former Third Reich publicist Otto Schulmeister, who in turn supported Mauer. Mauer and Schulmeister collaborated as editors on the Catholic cultural monthly Wort und Wahrheit together, which they founded in the Fifties.
Otto Schulmeister, 1989: “There were many swine at the time, not only brown ones…” And he added, “The Revisionists are right about that. Not only Nazis committed crimes. And not only Jews were victims. There were many victims at the time and many since then. And as we see in Israel, Jews can also be oppressors.” Asked whether he regretted what he had written during the Third Reich in National Socialist organs, he replied: “Not in the least!”

Half-Truths are the most dangerous lies.
– Joseph Goebbels
Otto Mauer, pater familias of the actionists, was the official Catholic “caretaker of souls” for artists.
Otto Mauer in 1948, the years after the Holocaust: “The Jews have immense influence on communism and capitalism. They pass themselves off as defenders of humanity…but they are nothing but a depraved people with a perverted spirit….They have been condemned to eternal damnation….They invariably choose the evil path.”
Bishop Egon Kapellari, Austria’s Bishop for Art: “Monsignor Otto Mauer, the unforgotten sponsor of contemporary art of his time, wrote in his renowned text, “A Discourse on Art,” that he was aware that society, yes even the state, had to defend itself against anti-humanistic, racial discriminatory, anti-Semitic, etc. art. “
A year later Mauer was more “conciliatory.” In 1949 he wrote: “There is a solution to the Jewish problem, but just one: the Jews must recognize Christ as the Messiah, the heathens must become Christians…”

Good Deeds

Mauer’s Austrian colleague Bishop Alois Hudal describes his good deeds: “After 1945 all my charitable work was primarily devoted to the former members of National Socialism and Fascism, particularly the so-called ‘war criminals,’ who were being persecuted and were frequently personally completely without guilt.” [7]
Bishop Hudal, Christmas, 1945:“I am delighted to greet 110 wanted war criminals. They can be hunted far and wide. Here they are safe.”[8]

“The Bishop (Hudal) entered the room and welcomed me with outstretched arms and said, ‘You must be Franz Stangl. I’ve been waiting for you.’”[9]
(Franz Stangel was Commandant of Treblinka Concentration Camp. The number of His victims is nine-hundred-thousand.)

Thanks to Hudal and other Cossack-clad friends, Stangl was able to travel to Brasil, where he found employment at the Volkswagon factory in the Sixties and as advisor to the military dictatorship. He was able to combine both jobs by aiding with in interrogations on the factory premises.

Luther writes that the Jews are a serpent’s brood
and one should burn down their synagogues and destroy them.”

 

One and the Same

Dan was an American Nazi way back in the Lincoln Rockwell days. He was a true fan of the Führer,
and he was convinced that the quondam leader Germany had hit the jackpot with the racial laws.
A party comrade painted a portrait of him in uniform in Adolf-pose with smokestacks in the background.

Dan did not engage in Holocaust denial. He carried a bar of soap around with him with the caption on the wrapper:
“Made from the finest Jewish fat.” Yeah, Dan didn’t like Jews very much. In order to prove his conviction,
he vandalized the offices of the Anti-Defamation League in New York.
But yet Dan wanted to show that not everything Jewish was bad. He’d bring knish to Nazi headquarters
and offer it to his comrades, saying, “Let’s eat this good Jew food!” Say what you will about Jews,
there’s no denying that Jewish food is tasty.

Regretfully for Dan, there was one fly in the ointment. Dan had the bad luck of not being a bonified Aryan.
He hadn’t selected the right parents before birth. His mother and father were pious Jews in the Bronx,
and one set of grandparents had taken the boat to New York from Russia. Yes, fate had played the dirtiest trick on him.
Be that as it may, Dan attempted to rectify this error by choosing to be a Nazi. And he proved himself again and again.

Since Dan had become one of the most ardent members of the American Nazi Party, the media took an interest in him.
Journalists wanted to know the whys and wherefores of his convictions. Even the prestigious New York Times contacted him for an interview.
Dan was flattered and he assented.

The Times interviewer did a little background research and confronted Dan with his true identity. Dan was aghast.
His brown world collapsed. He had besmirched his calling with his identity. The only honorable recourse he had as a Nazi was to kill the Jew
who had dishonored him – these two being one and the same. The Nazi took his pistol and aimed it at the Jew and shot himself dead.

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[1] Profil, No. 23, June, 6, 2005
[2] Neue Kronen-Zeitung, 21. Dez.1986; Gerd Bacher in: “Zeit zum Reden”. Eine noch ältere:
[3] Salzburger Nachrichten, 17. Nov.1949; Gerd Bacher: “Freibeuter der Moral”.
[4] Kronen-Zeitung, Hans Dichand, 23. April 1995.
[5] Kronen-Zeiting, Hans Janetschek, Italiens Flucht aus dem Krieg, p. 28; Hans Janetschek, Nur Ein Journalist, Orac Verlag, 1993.
[6]Kronen-Zeitung, Cato (Hans Dichand), April 17, 2007, p. 3
[7] Alois C. Hudal, Römische Tagebücher, Lebensbeichte eines alten Bischofs, Leopold Stocker Verlag, Graz, 1976, p. 21
[8] Bishop Alois Hudal’s secretary Hans Mayer, tape recording, 1979, Die Waffen SS, ZDF, 2002.
[9] Gerald Steinacker: Nazis auf der Flucht, Studien Verlag, Innsbruck, 2008.
[10] G. M. Gilbert Nuremberg Diary, Straus & Cudhay, 1947, Signet Edition, 1961, p. 384.

-Laying the Groundwork: Luther to Streicher

von Herbert Kuhner am 14. Dezember 2017 um 18:00
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Laying the Groundwork:
Luther to Streicher

Julius Streicher, publisher of the virulently anti-Semitic Der Sturmer, took on the role of disciple while the dock at the Nuremberg Trials.

“Dr. Martin Luther would very probably sit in my place in the defendants‘ dock today, if this book had been taken into consideration by the prosecution. In the book ‘The Jews and Their Lies,’ Dr. Martin Luther writes that the Jews are a serpent’s brood and one should burn down their synagogues and destroy them.”

Here are some segments from the aforementioned book by Martin Luther:

“What will happen even if we do burn down the Jews‘ synagogues and forbid them publicly to praise God, to pray, to teach, to utter God’s name? They will still keep doing it in secret. If we know that they are doing this in secret, it is the same as if they were doing it publicly. For our knowledge of their secret doings and our toleration of them implies that they are not secret after all and thus our conscience is encumbered with it before God.

“Therefore be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a den of devils in which sheer self-glory, conceit, lies, blasphemy, and defaming of God.

“Moreover, they are nothing but thieves and robbers who daily eat no morsel and wear no thread of clothing which they have not stolen and pilfered from us by means of their accursed usury. Thus they live from day to day, together with wife and child, by theft and robbery, as arch-thieves and robbers, in the most impenitent security.

“However, they have not acquired a perfect mastery of the art of lying; they lie so clumsily and ineptly that anyone who is just a little observant can easily detect it. But for us Christians they stand as a terrifying example of God’s wrath.

“Alas, it cannot be anything but the terrible wrath of God which permits anyone to sink into such abysmal, devilish, hellish, insane baseness, envy, and arrogance. If I were to avenge myself on the devil himself I should be unable to wish him such evil and misfortune as God’s wrath inflicts on the Jews, compelling them to lie and to blaspheme so monstrously, in violation of their own conscience. Anyway, they have their reward for constantly giving God the lie.

“Over and above that we let them get rich on our sweat and blood, while we remain poor and they such the marrow from our bones.

“Let the government deal with them in this respect, as I have suggested. But whether the government acts or not, let everyone at least be guided by his own conscience and form for himself a definition or image of a Jew.

“However, we must avoid confirming them in their wanton lying, slandering, cursing, and defaming. Nor dare we make ourselves partners in their devilish ranting and raving by shielding and protecting them, by giving them food, drink, and shelter.

“First to set fire to their synagogues or schools and to bury and cover with dirt whatever will not burn, so that no man will ever again see a stone or cinder of them. This is to be done in honor of our Lord and of Christendom, so that God might see that we are Christians, and do not condone or knowingly tolerate such public lying, cursing, and blaspheming of his Son and of his Christians.

“Second, I advise that their houses also be razed and destroyed. For they pursue in them the same aims as in their synagogues. Instead they might be lodged under a roof or in a barn, like the gypsies. This will bring home to them that they are not masters in our country, as they boast, but that they are living in exile and in captivity, as they incessantly wail and lament about us before God.

“Third, I advise that all their prayer books and Talmudic writings, in which such idolatry, lies, cursing and blasphemy are taught, be taken from them.

“Fourth, I advise that their rabbis be forbidden to teach henceforth on pain of loss of life and limb.

“Fifth, I advise that safe-conduct on the highways be abolished completely for the Jews. For they have no business in the countryside, since they are not lords, officials, tradesmen, or the like.

“Sixth, I advise that usury be prohibited to them, and that all cash and treasure of silver and gold be taken from them and put aside for safekeeping. The reason for such a measure is that, as said above, they have no other means of earning a livelihood than usury, and by it they have stolen and robbed from us

“Seventh, I commend putting a flail, an ax, a hoe, a spade, a distaff, or a spindle into the hands of young, strong Jews and Jewesses and letting them earn their bread in the sweat of their brow, as was imposed on the children of Adam (Gen 3[:19]}. For it is not fitting that they should let us accursed Goyim toil in the sweat of our faces while they, the holy people, idle away their time behind the stove, feasting and farting, and on top of all, boasting blasphemously of their lordship over the Christians by means of our sweat. No, one should toss out these lazy rogues by the seat of their pants.

“But what will happen even if we do burn down the Jews‘ synagogues and forbid them publicly to praise God, to pray, to teach, to utter God’s name? They will still keep doing it in secret. If we know that they are doing this in secret, it is the same as if they were doing it publicly. For our knowledge of their secret doings and our toleration of them implies that they are not secret after all and thus our conscience is encumbered with it before God, that their synagogues be burned down, and that all who are able toss in sulphur and pitch; it would be good if someone could also throw in some hellfire.”

End of segments.

These words are from the initiator of the Protestant branch of Christianity. I can’t help but ask: If you hang the “Founder’s” disciples at Nuremberg for having done it, how can you honor the man who provided the playbook for what they did?

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Herbert Kuhner ist Übersetzer von neun Sammlungen österreichischer Lyrik, darunter Austrian Poetry Today / Österreichische Lyrik heute. Schocken Books, New York; Carinthian Slovenian Poetry, Hermagoras Verlag, Klagenfurt / Slavica Publishers, Columbus, Ohio; Hawks and Nightingales: Current Burgenland Croatian Poetry, Braumüller Verlag, Wien / Slavica Publishers, Columbus, Ohio.

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