Posted on 05/22/2016 12:29:41 PM PDT by ak267
One month ago, pro-European voices in Austria, and all of Europe, were suddenly muted when in the first round of the Austrian presidential election, Norbert Hofer head of Austria Freedom Party (FPO), described as a "Euroskeptic, right-wing, anti-immigrant party" crushed his opposition buoyed by a migration crisis that has heightened fears about employment and security across the continent, and gathered a whopping 35% of the vote leaving the other five legacy candidates far behind.
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Sounds good. Let’s go with that.
Uhh, did they ignore the fact that a real Nazi, Kurt Waldheim, was elected President in 1986?
Let me see if I can remember ... during WWII, Austria was led by some National Socialist guy, right?
Is that the right-wing that they mean?
If you want to exclude a violent underclass who hates everything about your culture and refuses to assimilate, and claims racial and religious superiority, you must be a Nazi.
Got it.....yawn.
Classic...lol.
Nazi’s are a militant Left group, with socialism being their main focus, but in a homogenous society.
People seem to forget what happened the last time the governments in Austria and Germany pissed its people off.
The leftist scumbags responsible for the EU and the muslim invasion had better start heading for the tall grass.
Yes, but it’s funny how the Press completely ignores that fact.
So in other words Hofer is only mildly a leftist compared to the normal euro garbage full tilt leftists.
Years ago they had the National Socialist German Labor Party in power along with their treaty buddies the Soviet Socialists.
See, things are just getting better and better as time goes by.
Too bad people don’t know Hitler was “left wing”.
Sehr gut.
And remind Hillary and the rest of the world the Hitler was a SOCIALIST.....LEFTIST!!!!
Waldheim was investigated by the tribunal on Nazi war crimes and they never found any evidence that Waldheim took part in any war crimes.
He was guilty of lying about his military positions with the Wehrmacht while stationed in Greece and Bosnia. He had no involvement with persecuting Jews or concentration camps.
He was still a Nazi, who knew what was going on.
And how do you know that?
Indeed he was a Nazi, but we have no idea what he knew or suspected was going on. I doubt that very few did, it’s not like they broadcasted their intentions. That’s how Hitler got by with his secretive genocide.
Weisenthal, the great Nazi hunter, was an Austrian holocaust survivor himself and had carte blanche access to the Austrian files, journals, photographs. They take pride in their recording keeping, just like the Germans.
I’m sure they would have charged and convicted Waldheim if there was a scrap of evidence that he committed a war crime. It would have been one of the biggest successes of the tribunal.
FWIW, The New York Times tried to smear / convict Waldheim to kill his political career, but they got nowhere.
Service in Yugoslavia and Greece
Waldheim’s functions within the staff of German Army Group E from 1942 until 1945, as determined by the International Commission of Historians,[5] were:
Interpreter and liaison officer with the 5th Alpine Division (Italy) in April/May 1942, then,
O2 officer (communications) with Kampfgruppe West in Bosnia in June/August 1942,
Interpreter with the liaison staff attached to the Italian 9th Army in Tirana in early summer 1942,
O1 officer in the German liaison staff with the Italian 11th Army and in the staff of the Army Group South in Greece in July/October 1943, and
O3 officer on the staff of Army Group E in Arksali, Kosovska Mitrovica and Sarajevo from October 1943 to January/February 1945.
By 1943, Waldheim was serving in the capacity of an aide-de-camp in Army Group E which was headed by General Alexander Löhr.[6] In 1986, Waldheim said that he had served only as an interpreter and a clerk and had no knowledge either of reprisals against local Serb civilians or of massacres in neighboring provinces of Yugoslavia. He said that he had known about some of the things that had happened, and had been horrified, but could not see what else he could have done.[4]
Much historical interest has centered on Waldheim’s role in Operation Kozara in 1942.[7] According to one post-war investigator, prisoners were routinely shot within only a few hundred meters (yards) of Waldheim’s office,[8] and just 35 kilometres (22 mi) away at the Jasenovac concentration camp. Waldheim later stated that “he did not know about the murder of civilians there”.[8]
Waldheim’s name appears on the Wehrmacht’s “honor list” of those responsible for the militarily successful operation. The Nazi puppet state, the Independent State of Croatia, awarded Waldheim the Medal of the Crown of King Zvonimir in silver with an oak branches cluster.[9] Decades later, during the lobbying for his election as U.N. Secretary General, Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito, who had led anti-German forces during the war, awarded Waldheim one of the highest Yugoslav orders.[10]
Waldheim denied that he knew war crimes were taking place in Bosnia at the height of the battles between the Nazis and Tito’s partisans in 1943.[11] According to Eli Rosenbaum, in 1944, Waldheim reviewed and approved a packet of anti-Semitic propaganda leaflets to be dropped behind Soviet lines, one of which ended: “Enough of the Jewish war, kill the Jews, come over.”[12]
Source: Wikipedia
You know damn well the reason they didn’t go after Waldheim, was because it would have made the UN look bad, if it came out their former Secretary General committed War Crimes.
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