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HERBERT KUHNER Romancier, Lyriker, Dramatiker und Übersetzer ist 1935 in Wien in geboren. Er emigrierte 1939 in die Vereinigten Staaten und studierte an der Lawrenceville School und Columbia University. Nach Wien kehrte er 1963 zurück, wo er als ein freier Schriftsteller und Übersetzer lebt.

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Another topic I have “touched upon” is “remigration.” This word is a neologism, which means coming back to where you have been driven out.I've always said that I wanted a smooth ride, but I couldn't help rocking the boat. Rocking seems to be in my genes.

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On the road I have traveled, I have met many remarkable people. First I name my friend and mentor the late Emile Capouya. “Mike” encouraged me over the years and published two of my books in New York.

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grew up in the United States, associating with the New York City jazz and coffee scene in the 1950s. ". . I've always said that I wanted to have smooth sailing, but I couldn't help rocking the boat. Rocking seems to be in my genes". As a subtitle I’ve chosen “Stepping out of line,” which is a movement my feet can’t seem to avoid making.

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Vienna Today

Returning to my birthplace has given me a unique opportunity of writing on Third Reich Revisionism. This topic interlinks with Violence under the Guise of Art like pieces of a puzzle to reveal how the past manifests itself in the present.

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Faithful till the End

Herbert Kuhner

Magda had a Jewish stepfather and both Magda and Josef had love affairs with Jewish partners in their youth. Josef had considered marriage, but when faced with the prospect of mixed-race children, had decided against it. Magda became a gentile Zionist and wore the Star of David, a gift from her lover, around her neck. After they broke up, he went to Israel and became a political activist. After Magda met Goebbels, the former lover was assassinated under mysterious circumstances, and later her stepfather ended up in Buchenwald. The fate of Josef’s former fiancée and her family is not known.

Eva Braun had a boyfriend who was a Jewish medical student and her sister worked for a Jewish doctor. Eva intervened for a physician in Linz, who had treated Hitler’s mother until her death. Eva succeeded in preventing her paramour from rewarding him in the usual manner, and although his possessions were “requisitioned,” he was able to emigrate.

Josef Goebbels, had been a seminary student and was also the author of a novel titled Michael. Later he found a cause and his new religion became National Socialism.

According to the National Socialist scientific precepts, an Aryan woman who slept with a Jew became contaminated, but this was not the case vice-versa. Yet it was also forbidden for an Aryan man to have sexual relations with a Jewish woman. Exceptions were made in concentration camps where attractive non-Aryan women were forced to be slaves in bordellos.

Josef had Magda undergo a series of medical tests to determine whether he had been racially contaminated. (Apparently Goebbels believed his own pseudo-scientific claptrap.) The good news was that results were negative, which was positive for the couple, and they got married.

Josef was a good Nazi, but not exactly a good husband. He was habitually unfaithful to Magda, but he was faithful to the Führer till the end. Josef had a hot affair with Lida Baarova and even considered divorcing Magda in order to marry her, but the Führer intervened and convinced him that he was essential to the cause as exemplary Nazi family man, and that meant remaining with Magda, who was the First Lady of the Reich.

In spite of Magda’s background and her husband’s swarthy looks and his wiry small stature and club-foot, she bore him six children that measured up to the Aryan ideal. The one boy and the five girls that he had sired were all beautiful and blonde. All of their names began with the letter H in honor their godfather.

Josef was one of the instigators of the murder of one-and-a-half million children, and as propaganda minister, he was instrumental in justifying the treatment of races considered inferior by National Socialism.

When Magda heard about the Nazi’s plans for genocide after the Wannsee Conference, she was shocked, but she was a good National Socialist wife and accepted them.

Things went well for a while, but then they went awry. After the Reich had conquered all of Europe, British tenacity, American might and Russian manpower turned the tide. The combined forces of the UK the USSR. and the USA pushed the invincible armies of the Reich all the way back.

Josef Goebbels was faithful till the end. He and his family were with the Führer in his Berlin Bunker.

Adolf married Eva, and their honeymoon consisted of suicide.

On May 1, 1945, Josef decided that he and his family would have to follow suit. Magda protested, but she turned out to be a better wife than mother. As far as her spouse was concerned, he proved himself to be a loyal friend to his mentor, but he was a bust as a husband and father.

All six of the children were given poison, the oldest daughter sensed what was happening and didn’t want to swallow it, and her mother shoved it down her throat. Then Magda played solitaire before taking poison and her husband shot himself.

Here is the former Zionist’s last statement: “I bore my children for the Third Reich. They were born to live in the Third Reich, and if it ceases to exist, they too should not continue to exist.”

Children don’t choose their parents. It wasn’t the fault of Helga, Holde, Hilde, Heide, Hedda and Helmuth that they had Goebbels as a father. They ended up being victims, just like the million and a half children, whose deaths their father had helped instigate.

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