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Herbert Kuhner

The first sacred message received by the children at Fatima in 1917 was basically directed against atheism and communism. The second and third were directed against the Soviet Union.

The Catholic Church had it in for the Soviet Union. That stands to reason.

Every religion - save Judaism - is evangelistic, including the atheistic religion of communism. Nothing wrong with that! Unless, of course, the sword is used as a means for conversion.

In 1940, The Western Christian democracies, except Britain, were overrun by Christian Nazi Germany. Okay, a local conflict.

However, when the Germany attacked the Soviet Union, the conflict was between Christianity and atheistic communism. Soon afterward, the United States entered the war, clouding things up a bit. The conflict was now, the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union against Germany and Italy, which was the seat of Catholicism.

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Herbert Kuhner

The great crimes on this earth are murder and rape. A murderer takes the life of a human being. A rapist violates a human being.

Pedophilia is rape of an infant, a child or a minor. Pedophilia can be effected by either violent means or by seduction. Committing the crime of pedophilia is tantamount to the murder of an infant, a child or a minor.

Pedophilia is rape of an infant, a child or a minor. Pedophilia can be effected by either seduction, intimidation or violent means

The suffering of a murdered victim ceases after he has been killed. A victim of rape is
spiritually killed but continues to live.

Pope John Paul II in his 2005 book Memory and Identity compared the Holocaust to abortion, as did many other men of the cloth. He wrote that both abortion and the murder of six million Jews were the result of humans under the guise of democracy usurping the “law of God.”
- Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, No. 68, May 1, 2008

The Archbishop of Cologne, Germany, Cardinal Joachim Meisner, “put women who had had an abortion in a row with mass murderers like Hitler, Stalin and Herod. He compared abortion to the Holocaust and the abortion pill with Zyklon B, the gas used by the Nazis in the extermination camps.”
- BBC Online, February 22, 2005.

Yes, these holy men want stamp out legalized abortion, which would mean a revival of the back-street variety and bring the knitting needle into play again. (According to APA, unsafe abortions cause 70,000 deaths a year internationally.) The holy men concentrate their efforts on fighting against “murder before birth” but what about murder after birth? The word “Holocaust” would certainly be more appropriate to describe the fate of the victims of pedophilia.

Both Pope John Paul II and Benedict XVI oversaw the hush-up and the shuffling around of pedophile priests. Ratzinger, who was Wojtyla’s ideologue, now lays the blame for the cover-up on Wojtyla. Yes, Ratzinger is as innocent as the driven snow!

Motivation

Sexual behavior between consenting adults is nobody’s business. If the Catholic Church makes it their business, it is “their” business. However, criminal acts are the business of society.

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Herbert Kuhner

Herr Kuhner, if you do not withdraw your case, we will send the public health officer.
- Anonymous caller

Martin Luksan suggested I tackle this again, so here goes!

Yes, this is a trip down Memory Lane, but there is nothing sentimental about it. These were not the good old days. There’s no dabbing at the edges of your eyes with a hankie when you think back.

I’d like to express my gratitude to all the people I encountered who helped me achieve a better understanding of the past.

My First Experience with Inhumanity:
Let me go back to 1938. I was three at the time. My mother and I were in my grandmother’s apartment in Rueppgasse in the 2nd district of Vienna. The doorbell to my grandmother’s rang. I ran to the door and opened it. It was the SA. They entered to ransack the apartment. One of them, I remember clearly, wore a brown suit and limped. The other wore a grey suit. They searched the apartment. The brown-suited man pushed my grandmother, who was eighty-three away from the sideboard in order to ransack it. And indeed it contained her shopping money.

I see that occurrence as clearly as if it were taking place right now.

My parents left what had become Ostmark with me in 1939. Members of my family who remained at that address, as well as at Kärntnertrasse 28, my paternal grandmother’s address, were deported and murdered. Incidentally the latter address used to be occupied by the Educational Academy of the right-wing Austrian Freedom Party. It is now the home of a trend chain store.

After my return to Austria in 1963, I set about translating and publishing Austrian poets. I considered it my special mission to render those poets who had experienced the Shoah.

The conditions were anything but sanguine and salubrious. It was as if I had never left.

I soon got into hot water. Apparently, I can’t let things be. I simply had to stir the pot. And I seem to keep on stirring and stirring.

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. Stepping out of line, which is a movement my feet can’t seem to avoid making.

I’ve been termed a troublemaker. Yes, that’s what I am, and that’s what I’ll be as long as I am on this planet.

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From Violence Under the Guise of Art
or Third Reich Recycling.

In 1977 Valie Export was brought to trial for having engaged in cruelty to animals and found guilty of having tied a canary to a perch. However the scalding of the birds with boiling wax, which had been filmed, came under the statute of limitations. (1) This “art object” was on view as part of the Export Exhibition in the Museum of the Twentieth Century in Vienna in March of 1997. On March 17, 1997, in Treffpunkt Kultur, a program devoted to culture on ORF, Austrian State TV, films by Export were broadcast. In one scene Export uses a bloody kitchen knife to slice the neck of a turtle, a mouse and a parrot, but the actual decapitations are deleted by film cutting.(2)

Valie Export “herself”: “A bird is tied to a rostrum with thin cord. I kneel in front of the bird on the rostrum and pour hot liquid wax on it. Then I pour wax on my feet and my left hand; the wax container is knocked over and the bird’s head is covered with wax. I free myself by cutting the cord with a knife which I lifted from the rostrum with my mouth and use it. The rostrum is encircled by nails.” (3)

After Export was invited to submit a design for the monument on Judenplatz some years ago, she had thoughts about the Holocaust. “Not directly or for a specific reason, as happened when I was invited to participate in the competition.” She didn’t win that one, but on August 28, 1999, her anti-fascistic monument in Allentsteig, Lower Austria, was unveiled. She may be able to contribute a valid analysis since violence plays a primary role in her work.

In the spring of 1995, an official Austrian exhibit commemorating prominent Austrians who were forced to emigrate was shown at 565 Fifth Avenue in New York. The organizer of the exhibit and co-editor of the accompanying book, The Cultural Exodus from Vienna (5)  is Peter Weibel, who is also co-editor of the previously-mentioned Wien. Among the highlights of the latter scholarly work are photos of co-editor Export engaging in fellatio with Weibel. Here’s a quote from the horse’s mouth: “When Valie Export is sucking my cock, one can see it.”(6)

Also featured in this volume is the depiction of an event in Cologne organized by Weibel and Export in which bullwhips, coils of barbed wire, beer bottles and ether were used to injure actionists and members of the audience. (7)  One of the most revolting aspects of the book is the juxtaposing of documentary photos of murdered children with photos of Hermann Nitsch actions with innards. (8)  Thus, infanticide too is part of Show Biz. Nitsch: “Killing was and is beyond all moral judgments.”(9)

During the Third Reich children were taught to kill birds
with their hands in a camp called Kinderland,
which translates as “Children’s Land.”(10)

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Quotes by Franz Josef:

“I won’t tolerate any hate campaigns against Jews in my empire. All anti-Semitism must immediately be nipped in her bud.”
- Franz Joseph, 1882

“I am convinced the Israelites are unequivocally loyal; they will always be able to count on my protection.”
- Franz Josef, 1883 to the Jewish Community in Graz

Quotes by Bruno Kreisky:

“If the Jews are a people, they are a lousy people.”
Bruno Kreisky to Zeev Barth, correspondent of Radio Israel, 1975

Concerning the joke that he was the only Austrian who didn’t know that he was a Jew: “That’s a typical Jewish reaction and demonstrates much intolerance. The Jews have many, many proclivities - this has been proven historically - which are typical phenomena of intolerance. I never said I wasn’t a Jew!”
- Bruno Kreisky to Alan Levy, Academia, No. 3, 1987, Vienna, p.31

“I find that Jews or descendants of Jews in their native are suspect if they declare that they are bound together by having shared a common fate or if they have a bond with Israel but feel isolated in their native country. This strikes me as being a reversed form of the anti-Semitism and it constitutes a posthumous victory for Hitler.”
- Bruno Kreisky, Frankfurter Allgemeine, November 13, 1975.

“There is no Jewish race; there are only Jewish religious groups. Israel was only the ancient, religious fatherland of Jews, but not their true fatherland.”
- Bruno Kreisky, Interview, Jan. 20, 1974, IsraPundit

“I have absolutely nothing in common with the state of Israel, especially with its present political leadership. Quite on the contrary, I am obligated to oppose it as a socialist.”
- Bruno Kreisky, Michel Cullin, Das jüdische Echo, 1987, p.179

„Kreisky’s Minister of Justice, Christian Broda …clandestinely cancelled hundreds of court cases against alleged Nazi criminals between 1971 and 1973. Beginning in 1975 there were no more criminal proceedings at all against Nazis in Austria.
Here’s a key quote by Broda: Every trial of a war criminal process costs our party hundreds of members and thousands of electoral voices.”
- Bruno Kreisky, Evelyn Adunka: Die vierte Gemeinde: Die Wiener Juden in der Zeit von 1945 bis heute, Philo Verlag, Berlin, 2000; p. 389; Die Furche, Nov. 8, 1969

He (Bruno Kreisky) described his attitude to former National Socialists: One could only have re-established this country after the war by only by not excluding them from the reconstruction. It would have been impossible to build a new state with just a handful of heroes.
- Bruno Kreisky, according to Profil, No. 36, Sept: 7; 1987 p. 27

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Herbert Kuhner

The Tenth Anniversary of the Schüssel-Haider Tandem Is Upon Us

Here They Are Taking Positions on Bygone Days:

Wolfgang Schüssel: Austria 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. Our country was the first military victim of the Nazis in its identity. But I do not want to create the impression that we intend to minimize or erase the individual guilt of perpetrators in any sense
Question: Does the People’s Party intend to have post-war history researched, as the Social Democratic Party has done?
Schüssel: The entire leadership of the People’s Party (ÖVP) was in concentration camps and were victims.
- Wolfgang Schüssel, Austrian Chancellor, Neue Züricher Zeitung, Feb. 15, 2005; Austrian Federal Chancellory Online.

Otto Habsburg Comes into the Picture:

“Again and again there are shameful discussions concerning Austrians having been accomplices or victims. This makes it imperative for me to say that there is certainly no country in Europe that can more adequately describe itself as a victim than Austria!…When there’s a great commotion somewhere, many people will come to cheer. If you mention the
crowd of 60,000 at Heldenplatz (Heroes’ Square) - there are 60,000 fans at every soccer game.”
- Otto Habsburg, the Austrian Parliament Commemorates the „Anschluss”, March 11, 2008

Kurt Waldheim Presents His View:

Saying farewell to the concept of having been nothing but a victim is essential, yes that is a necessity for Austrians. It was the basis of our spiritual equilibrium after 1945, as well as for our reconstruction and our post-war identity.
- Kurier, March 5, 2006, p. 3

Jörg Haider on Our Soldiers:

“Our soldiers weren’t perpetrators. The perpetrators were elsewhere…. I have said that the Wehrmacht soldiers made democracy, as we find it today in Europe, possible. Had they not afforded resistance, had they not been in the East, had they not been in a confrontation, then we would have…  (Haider is interrupted by two astute Profil editors.)  (1)  I have stated that the struggle soldiers were engaged in helped stem the communist menace, and that is an undeniable fact.(2)   Their sacrifice must not have been in vain. Without their valor, we would not have the freedom in Western Europe that we take for granted. (3)   In these unsettling times there decent individuals with character, who stick to their beliefs despite strong opposition and remain true to them today as well. That is a good basis, my dear friends, for us younger people to inherit. (4)   Your sacrifice for the Europe of today, men and women of the military generation, should not have been in vain.(5)    It is incomprehensible to me that our grandfathers and fathers should have been criminals… I espouse this generation, the dead as well as the living. (6)  The Third Reich had managed to implement a competent employment policy.” (7)

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Herbert Kuhner

Some quotations by SS-colonel Walter Reder, who was the “last Austrian prisoner of war” until his release an January 24, 1985.

Telegram to the mayor of Marzabotto December 25, 1984: “Nothing lies farther from my heart than forgetting the sacrifice of the martyrs. I beseech the survivors to believe me when I say that I weep for those martyrs and bow my head before their memory in deep Christian remorse”

Walter Reder in May of 1985 concerning that telegram:
“They do not hesitate to use my Italian lawyer’s gambit against me. I have no intention whatsoever of ‘whitewashing’ and humbling myself.”

Telegram to “Comrade Jüttner,” May 9, 1980:
“The rats are very tough, as we know.”

In 1983 the Socialists formed a coalition, with the Freedomites. In 1985 when Walter Reder, the last Nazi war criminal incarcerated in Italy, was released, Friedhelm Frischenschlager Freedomite Minister of Defense, flew to Graz to welcome the “old soldier” with a handshake and received him with full military honors.

Frischenschlager asserted that Reder was merely the last prisoner of war. He was not aware of why Reder had not previously been released.” No minister of defense in the history of mankind, and there have been many lulus, could be deemed so naive.

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