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To: scrutineer
My partial translation: link


Your translation looks good to me. Just a few annotations:


Landeshauptleute = state governors (there are 9 Austrian "federal states")

Josef Krainer: Conservative politician, 1980-96 governor of Styria

Waltraud Klasnic, Conservative politician, governor of Styria since 1996

Ziehsohn = "foster-son"

Buechsenmacher = gunsmith

Trafikant = owner of tobacco shop

Richard Tauber: Jewish tenor (1891-1948)

Joseph Schmidt: Jewish tenor (1904-1942)

Anstalt = institute

ÖVPler = member of the ÖVP, the "Oesterreichische Volkspartei" (the Austrian Conservative Party)
13 posted on 10/04/2003 4:08:10 AM PDT by stck
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stck, you have my profuse thanks for the corrections and annotations. I've credited you as "stck" on my page.
19 posted on 10/04/2003 3:56:03 PM PDT by scrutineer
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You forgot the weightlifter thing.
24 posted on 10/05/2003 6:32:37 PM PDT by patton (I wish we could all look at the evil of abortion with the pure, honest heart of a child.)
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